Art in Nature
Through projects and interventions, ART IN NATURE is at the core of fist_ART’s mission; to produce site-specific works that deepen our understanding and awareness of art through the natural landscape. Each project is a collaboration between an artist, a leading critic, and a photographer.
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Art in Golf
Fist_Art Foundation announces its new exhibition: Art in Golf at Barlovento, Dorado Beach, opening December 12, 2012. Fist_Art is a nonprofit foundation that promotes the arts through site-specific works of art, community proposals, and excellent education programs, located in Dorado, Puerto Rico. Its mission is to explore the ways to converge art with nature, developing art projects with local and international artists that explore the environment and the landscape as dynamic medium that forms an integral part of our society. ...
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Miya Ando to present Obon [Puerto Rico]
The fist_ART.Foundation is pleased to announce the unveiling of the latest temporal outdoor public art project by artist Miya Ando, Obon [Puerto Rico], on May 27, 2012 at 8pm at Dorado Beach, Puerto Rico. Obon [Puerto Rico]is the artist’s first project in Puerto Rico, in which she celebrates the island’s natural phenomenon of bioluminescence and pays homage to her Japanese heritage. Obon isa site-specific, large-scale art installation created with hundreds of floating leaves on an outdoor pond, which appear clear in daylight ...
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The Regeneration Circle
An infinite look into the transitory states of regeneration. Vimarie Serrano’s latest proposal is born from fist_ART’s initiative where Rafael Trelles’s The Forbidden Tree is its main source of inspiration. Parting from a conference, led by Trelles, whose subject was the tree as an important symbol in different cultures, a group of young Puerto Rican artists presented various proposals. Chosen among them was The Regeneration Circle by Vimarie Serrano. The installation consists of eight specular modules, much like shining monoliths, ...
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According to Buoyancy
Interview with the artist: fist_ART: We know that you are an avid science fiction reader. We would like to know, what artist/writers you are interested in or have influenced your work? What are your favorite readings? Manolo Rodríguez: There are many artists that have influenced me throughout my career like Manfred Pernice, Charles Juhasz Alvarado, and Rebecca Horn. I would dare to say that each one of them, beyond working through assembly and installations, possesses the rare ability to take ...
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Tree Boat
Myeongbeom Kim, 2011, A meditative non-site During September 2005 New York City witnessed a strange and unexpected gesture. A barge filled with lush and extravagant trees, plants and shrubs making its way around Manhattan pulled by a tugboat. Floating Island to Travel Around Manhattan was developed from a simple sketch Robert Smithson made in 1970, three years before his sudden death. The project remained as an idea for over 30 years, until Minetta Brook and the Whitney Museum decided to make ...
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Sandtrap
Eternal and ephemeral One Year ago fist_art FOUNDATION became interested in two young artists working on their Masters of Arts degrees in Valencia, Spain. Fate was on my side when these creators happily turned out to be Puerto Ricans. I knew this was an opportunity that the Foundation could not let pass. Twins, Javier and Jaime Suárez, returned to Puerto Rico in December 2009 and thus, the story of a utopian project began to unfold. The project is now a ...
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en(re)
Towards an eco-utopic consciousness. Certain ecological actions today do not respond to a true awareness of waste production or suggest ways to counter it. Recycling for instance, far from being just an environmentally conscious sub-culture movement, is already part of the marketing engine of big corporations and an integral component of hegemonic economic and social structures. Its formal attributes (symbols, forms and colors) as well as prescribed actions (recycle, reuse, reduce) are repeatedly filtered through the mass media and packaged ...
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Homage to The Ptreocarpus
The Presentation of Landscape Art Week at Dorado Beach The vast majority of historians agree that Land Art emerges contemporarily, by the late sixties, in the United States and Great Britain. However, not everyone agrees on the reasons that prompted a group of young artists to abandon the art galleries and the traditional art spaces to work in places far from the great metropolises, and directly with natural elements and the landscape. For some, it was a response to the ...
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An occupied space
“The artwork becomes an element of the landscape, and the landscape becomes an element of the work; a symbiotic process that provides us an intense aesthetic experience.” Through the seventeenth century artists as Annibale Carracci, Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin developed the concept of ideal landscape inherited from the classical Greek tradition. Following this canon the elements of nature were carefully arranged on the pictorial composition in order to create an environment ruled by an atmosphere of harmony, balance and ...
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The Forbidden Tree
“Both locally and globally, we face an extreme situation and we must make a crucial decision: either we resign ourselves to total destruction or, to the contrary, we correct the course and pursue sustainable development in harmony with the environment.” I have entitled my art project The Forbidden Tree not only to emphasize the mythical-poetic character of the piece, but in reference to the Book of Genesis and the expulsion of humans from Eden for disobeying God’s command. According to ...