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Transmutation Still Print - Limited Edition of 5
Mexico
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Printed still of the video piece Transmutation Size: 16 x 9 in / 40 x 22.5 cm Printed in metallic photographic paper Transmutation 2014 mono channel film, color Video performance Duration: 2’ 20” Video preview: https://vimeo.com/guruseva/transmutacion "Art has much in common with religion" Wassily Kandinsky The video-performance Transmutation addresses the concept of spirituality in art, the relationship between the spiritual and artistic practice. This piece emphasizes the notion of dogmatic ritual that keeps one stuck, to later move on to the transcendence or transmutation that is obtained by breaking these dogmas. Art, in theory, it’s a medium of absolute freedom. But the artist has been "indoctrinated" by the academies and the dominant culture to think and produce art in an established way, just as the churches do it to "practice" spirituality in a rigid way. On the other hand, both disciplines have the ability to free the individual from his negative patterns and bring him genuine happiness, to emancipate him from the eternal return that Nietzsche elaborates. Lastly, Transmutation is a self-portrait that symbolizes some of the spiritual and artistic conflicts that the artist had throughout his life. Through artistic creation, using the "ritual" as a tool, Guru Seva seeks to free himself from the shackles of dogmatism. Mexico, 2014 All Rights Reserved ©
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Print:Giclee on Photo Paper
Size:6 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:11.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Mexico
Guru Seva is a Chilean artist who lives and works in Mexico. Khalsa uses different mediums such as sculpture, photography, New Media, video and installation to honestly address his concerns about the environment, as well as the political and aesthetic relationship between the micro and the macro. Through his work, the artist generates narratives in which it is possible to reflect on the sympathetic and unsympathetic relationships between human beings and nature, within an increasingly ambivalent world. Since 2015 he has been part of "Los Salvajes" collective, made up of him and the artist Pablo Ramírez. Appropriating the concept of the “savage”, a Eurocentric construction that justifies the domination over “others”, the collective questions the concept of progress and its link with the use of power. He studied his bachelor’s degree in visual arts at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Graphics of Mexico "La Esmeralda" (2010-2012) and graduated from an exchange program at Universidad Mayor in Chile (2013-2014). He has participated in numerous collective exhibitions such as: “Naturae”, Chance Encounters Project, Mexico City (2020); “Burning Palm”, Miguel Salinas Library, curated by Helena Lugo, Mexico (2019); “#ATÓPIC” Intramurs art festival, Rector Peset gallery, Spain (2018); “Droits De L'Homme”, UNESCO Headquarters, Belgium (2018); “Co-incide”, El Amate Cultural Center, México (2017); “Breaking sedentarism”, Main Gallery of the Faro de Oriente (2017). His work has been exhibited in Belgium, Chile, Spain, France, India and Mexico.
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