Slide 1:
- Personal Introduction:
- Pierina Avila S.
- Strategic Design
- Venezuela
- Political & Social commentary
Slides 2-3:
- Introduction to your project:
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- Simon Bolivar Central Park Statue
- Location: Central Park South and Avenue of the Americas
- Sculptor: Sally Jane Farnham
- Architect: Clarke & Rapuano
- Description: Equestrian statue (heroic scale) on pedestal with four coats of arms
- Materials: Statue and coats of arms–bronze; Pedestal–black granite (polished)
- Dimensions: Statue H: 13’6″ L: 13′; Pedestal H: 20’4″ L: 12’6″ W: 6’1″
- Cast: 1919
- Dedicated: April 19, 1921
- Donor: Government of Venezuela
- Inscription: SIMON BOLIVAR / EL LIBERATOR /—/ VENEZUELA A LA CIUDAD / DE NUEVA YORK /—/ LIBERTADOR DE VENEZUELA / NUEVA GRANADA / ECUADOR, PERU / FUNDADOR DE BOLIVIA / —/ NACIO EN CARACAS / EL 24 DE JULIO DE 1783 / MURIO EN SANTA MARTA / EL 17 DE DICIEMBRE DE 1830
- Simon Bolivar is glorified to a huge extent in South America, specially in Venezuela where the currency and even a revolution was named after him. Hidden behind the said glorious power he represents in Venezuela, lays a man who was racist, sexually assaulted the needed, and was a terrible human being. Whats even more shocking is how his name is used as a symbol of power, but the current Venezuelan government (who named a whole revolution after Bolivar “La Revolucion Bolivariana”) managed to take the worth of that name to zero. The Bolivares currency has the highest inflation rate in the world 1,000,000 percent.
- Include images of your monument and images related to your interest in the research.
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Slide 4:
- As a counterfeit, I created a monument made out of the Venezuelan bolivares spelling the word “Powerless”.
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- As a Venezuelan artist living in New York, my art usually focuses in social and political commentary of Venezuela to inform the rest of the world about whats happening in my home country.
- My monument would be created by using the actual currency to symbolize how worthless they are, to the extent that in Venezuela, people are making art out of these bills because they are worth less than actual materials.
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Explain your piece as if the person you were talking to has NO idea who you are or what you made.
Slide 5:
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- I used printed bolivares which I plastified with contact paper and folded to create the cubes used for the letters.
- I am a strong believer that when researching your ideas in depth before creating a piece it makes a successful final work. The development of ideas are way more fluent and therefore the final result is stronger.
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Slides 6-7:
- Slide 6: Final documentation of your piece.
- Slide 7: Image of your work if it could be anywhere. Use your photo shop skills.
Slide 8:
As mentioned before, as a Venezuelan artist who was forced to leave her country because of social, economical, and political reasons, I focus my art on commentary about the current Venezuelan crisis. I like my art to educate the rest of the world about whats happening in my home country, to stand up for my beliefs and as a form of protest.
- In a future I would like to keep on working with this theme and materials such as the country’s currency, which I feel was a very succesful material because it gives perspective of how bad the economy crisis is.
– Old work
-Last Slide – Thank You –> Questions &Comments
