Se presenta el diseño ganador para un monumento en Nueva York a Gays y Transexuales
29/06/2017.
[NYC] EEUU
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
Al igual que las festividades de la Madrid Pride comenzaron ayer, en Nueva York se produjeron algunas noticias el domingo: El artista Anthony Goicolea fue elegido para diseñar el primer monumento oficial a las lesbianas, gays, bisexuales y transexuales encargado por el Estado de Nueva York.
Diseñado por el artista Anthony Goicolea, de Brooklyn, Nueva York, el monumento LGBTQ -Monumento a gays y transexuales- consiste en nueve grandes rocas, algunos biseccionadas con un vidrio que actúa como prisma que puede emitir un sutil arco iris. Diseñado para ser comunicativo, utilizable y complementario en el paisaje, el diseño se ha inspirado en sitios como Stonehenge y la Isla de Pascua, así como montículos funerarios y círculos de piedra africana.
"Hay ciertas formas y patrones que se sienten como que están codificados en nuestro ADN como humanos que trascienden cualquier cultura en particular y hablan de cómo estamos unificados en un esquema más grande", dijo Anthony Goicolea"Quería crear un espacio que se siente familiar, Aunque sea nuevo ".
El 26 de junio de 2016, después del ataque en la discoteca Pulse en Orlando, Fla., Que dejó 49 muertos, el gobernador Cuomo formó la Comisión conmemorativa LGBT para honrar la lucha por la igualdad de derechos y recordar a las víctimas del odio, la intolerancia y la violencia. Una petición para los diseños del nuevo monumento lanzada en octubre. El monumento se situará en el Hudson River Park, en el borde de Greenwich Village, el barrio que alberga el Stonewall Inn, donde los disturbios en junio de 1969 fueron "un punto de inflexión para el Movimiento de Liberación Gay en los Estados Unidos", según la Biblioteca del Congreso de los EEUU.
"Este impresionante diseño complementa el paisaje y comunica un mensaje atemporal de inclusión, y este monumento servirá como un símbolo duradero del papel que los neoyorquinos juegan en la construcción de un mundo más justo", dijo el gobernador Cuomo en un comunicado el domingo. "Desde Stonewall a la igualdad matrimonial, Nueva York siempre ha sido un faro para la justicia y nunca renunciaremos a nuestro compromiso con la comunidad LGBT ya la creación de una sociedad más justa e inclusiva."
Anthony Goicolea. Born in 1971 in Atlanta, Georgia, Anthony Goicolea is a first-generation Cuban American artist now living and working in Brooklyn, New York. His extended family immigrated to the United States in 1961, fleeing Cuba soon after Castro came to power—a fact that underpins many of the artist’s works. Employing a variety of media, Goicolea explores themes ranging from personal history and identity, to cultural tradition and heritage, to alienation and displacement. His diverse oeuvre encompasses digitally manipulated self-portraits, landscapes, and narrative tableaux executed in a variety of media, including black-and-white and color photography, sculpture and video installations, and multi-layered drawings on Mylar. Best known for his powerful, and often unsettling, staged photographic and video works, Goicolea made his artistic debut in the late 1990s with a series of provocative multiple self-portrait images. These early works featured groups of young boys on the threshold of adolescence, acting out childhood fantasies and bizarre rituals of revelry and social taboo in highly staged domestic or institutional settings or dense, fairy-tale forests. Revealing a playful self-consciousness, they often consisted of complex composites of the artist himself, in all manner of poses and guises. Soon thereafter, Goicolea garnered international attention with his ambiguous, yet strangely compelling, landscapes, ranging from dream-like woodland environments to vast, unforgiving urban and industrial wastelands. The artist has created several series of digitally composited, and heretofore uncharted, topographies, often populated by bands of masked and uniformed figures. In recent series, many of the images are devoid of humans, although the landscape reflects an anonymous and increasingly tenuous human presence. In these works, primitive lean-tos and crudely constructed shanties coexist in an uneasy union with the technological vestiges of an industrialized society. Suggesting a world on the brink of obsolescence, these chilling images further cement the pervasive undercurrent of human alienation—from one another as well as the natural environment—that can be traced throughout the artist’s work. In a marked departure, Goicolea trained his unflinching eye on his own personal history in a highly acclaimed body of work exploring his roots and family heritage. These poignant, sometimes cinematic, images and installations are characterized by a fervent search for ancestral and social connections to a mythical homeland, Cuba—at once revealing nostalgia for a past that the artist never actually experienced, as well as a pronounced sense of cultural dislocation and estrangement. Remarkably prolific and inventive, Goicolea continues to intrigue his viewers with meticulously crafted, thought-provoking works. The artist has exhibited widely in group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia—notably at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the International Center of Photography, New York; Postmasters Gallery, New York; Haunch of Venison Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, Germany; the Groninger Museum, the Netherlands; and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain. Alter Ego: A Decade of Work by Anthony Goicolea is the first major traveling museum exhibition devoted solely to his work. Goicolea’s art is held in many public collections, including those of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; as well as the Yale University Art Collection, New Haven, Connecticut; the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; and Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia. To date, Goicolea’s work has been the subject of four books. It has been featured in ARTnews, Art in America, Art Forum, the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune, among many others. The artist’s grants and awards include a Cintas Fellowship (2006) and the BMW Photo Paris Award (2005) and the Joan Mitchell Fellowship Foundation. Goicolea holds a B.A. in art history, with a minor in romance languages, and a B.F.A. in drawing and painting—both earned at the University of Georgia, Athens, in 1992 and 1994, respectively. He received an M.F.A. in sculpture and photography, from Pratt Institute of Art, New York, in 1997.