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Claro-Escuro

Claro-Escuro

“The old world is dying, the new one is slow to be born" by Alfredo Jaar is a new work entering the Usina de Arte collection and invites reflection on the dangers of civilizational transitions. “Images are not innocent”, Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar often warns. Those who look at the neon phrase of his work “Claro-Escuro” (2015) under the wall of what was the largest alcohol distillery in Brazil in the 1950s are sure of this, and which since 2015, in its cultural reconversion, has made up a socioeconomic development project through art, education, and environment. In this chiaroscuro, monsters appear” establishes a permanent residence at Usina de Arte, expanding the equipment collection with large installations by international artists. Please visit the [Usina da Arte website,http://www.usinadearte.org/en] for more information.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Calling Video Artists

Calling Video Artists

Frame by Frame, Change the Game! Calling all visionary artists and filmmakers passionate about ecology and sustainability! Join us in shaping the future of our planet. Submit your artistic videos to impact, influence, and inspire change. Please find the Application Form here: [Open Call,https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCv1CmCdmugdstF5SXgIW8_c9oL50vIcSzErR5uVeVsmHyLw/viewform]

Duration : 30s
Maturity Level : all

Umwelt

Umwelt

"Umwelt" means "environment" or "surroundings" in German. Japanese artist Yoshiyuki Katayama used time-lapse techniques to film the gradual evolution of plants, which he then composited with slow-motion insect imagery. Fascinated with the relationship between flowers and insects, Katayama enjoyed exploring the juxtaposition of both movements within the same frame.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch

Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch

This extraordinary triptych painting by Hieronymus Bosch, created between 1490 and 1510 is housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, and portrays a complex and symbolic depiction of human desires and temptations. The outer panels show the creation of the world, while the inner panel showcases a vivid and surreal paradise filled with indulgent and sensual scenes. The painting’s meaning and intent have been subject to various interpretations, ranging from a warning against worldly pleasures to a celebration of carnal desires.

Duration : 15m
Maturity Level : all

Fleeting Moments

Fleeting Moments

This video work by Nina Sabnani and Srilekha Sikander is composed of moments. Each image represents a moment, or several moments that are really a single moment spread across 40 years. Each image is a scene from a season, from a monsoon descending over coastal lands and the sea. Every monsoon, the image returns. Every few moments, it changes. The artists are pushed to create multiple images to represent a single moment. And to put them all together on a single page. The cyclical nature of the work is part of its origin. It is based on journeys made to and fro, between Bombay and Murud-Janjira, by the artist, Srilekha Sikander over a period of forty years. Each journey is a repetition of another journey like every monsoon is a memory of another monsoon. Each season, the same scene, the same sea, repeats itself, but in a new form. Time stands still, even as it moves. Movement and stillness are blended together – separate and balanced. Perhaps this is what the Greeks called karyological time. The time that is momentary, both still and moving, like water in a lake.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all