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Auguste Rodin asked the great sculptor how he makes a
naked woman out of a stone. Rodin quipped that he starts
with a stone and takes away everything that is not the
woman.
A hundred years later, if asked by what process a naked
computer screen becomes a fêted work from his “Obscure
Object of Desire“ series, using technologies unfathomable
in the time of Rodin, artist ENRIQUE SIERRA can now
answer, “I‘ll show you.”
The result of that answer is “Mementos.”
“Mementos“, a thirty-minute video installation, takes us on a
visual journey through Sierra’s eye. We follow each step of
Sierra’s creative process from idea to realization. We relive
the artistic metamorphosis of creation, destruction, and
creation again.
The addition of an original score for “Mementos“, provides
an artful coupling for the strokes on Sierra’s painting using
an electronic tablet.
Combining music and art creates a new original
composition in and of itself. Like the dialogue of a loving
couple, with Mementos,“ the artist and the composer
challenge, caress and communicate, and together,
ultimately find themselves surprisingly taken to a new,
enlightened dimension.
Richard Rudnitsky
