This weekend just had the opportunity to see at La Casa Encendida (Madrid) the amazing exhibition On & Off. The works exhibited were mainly installation and video art expressing the ephemeral in art from a compound of young and veteran artist.
One of them was Céleste Boursier Mougenot amazing installation From here to ear. The artist created an attractive and naturalistic environment where you can go around the place surrounded by cute little birds. Everything was put together with a sense of harmony and elegance, at the same time with some sort of tenderness (maybe that’s just me…). The birds fled all over the place but the artist knew how to make them stop on the right place: there was some instruments like a guitar and plates with bird-food and water, and by landing on this instruments the birds played their own little concert.
Check out the video while presented in London
The Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota was present in this exhibition too. We enter in a room and find this set of an empty audience and a piano with tons of black wool string giving us the feeling that this is a trapped space. Besides being an installation it was actually a performance too: the piano and the audience chairs were burned in a public place (if I’m not mistaken).
This is definitely an exhibition worth to see twice, specially if you saw it kinda in a hurry… It will be possible to see it in Madrid until January 16th and is possible to download the audioguide mp3 files from the La Casa Encendida’s Website.
