Heide blog
In March this year Heide welcomed Fernando Palma Rodríguez as the Museum's first international artist-in-residence. You can read and comment on the blog entries he wrote during his three-month residency at Heide, featured below.
Palma Rodríguez is a Nahua Mexican artist now living and working in the United Kingdom. He came to Heide as part of an artist exchange with Stour Valley Arts and Kings Wood Forest, UK.
Click here to find out more about Palma Rodríguez’s work and his upcoming exhibition at Heide.
Butterflown of love
Everything was complete, Old-man-coyote marbled at his creation when a gust of wind made the fallen leaves circle in a whirl wind. His heart was heavy, and a feeling never experienced before fluttered a thought in his mind. Not so fast a drop that could have been the first tear ever, dropped to the crooked hands resting on his knees. Yes, the sun had managed to steer a thousand sunshine ripples in the brook.
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Yesterday I got invited for lunch at the house of Australian Archaeologist Peter Matthews whose research and life long quest has been the Mayan writing, he has worked extensively in Southern Mexico. His friendship has been especially welcome as it has given me the opportunity to talk with many more scholars also immersed in the thinking of the Mayan Culture. People deeply involved in Mythology, Numerology, and the Semantics of a lost civilization. The brief chats that we had, have an empathy that is very hard to come by for lost and present Indigenous cultures of Mexico. "If the Maya were the ruling culture today", I was told, "Art simply would not exist" (as we understand it) one of his colleagues told me while commenting on the appreciation of “art” objects of the Maya, how refreshing is that? This was of course said almost casually if it was not for the fact that it is a conviction borne out of the understanding that the Mayan left a legacy that needs to be interpreted from many perspectives, or perhaps more to the point, that was borne of many “disciplines” at once, as a whole. The Mayan did not make the distinction and specialization of knowledge as we do today.
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Mexico city
“Why, why are you doing this to me?” the little green pea shouted while being tossed about by the spoon. “Why are you doing this to me?”
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Last year while attending a symposium on the theme of Art and the environment at the Slade School of fine art in London, I was surprised to hear one of the speakers the artist Simon Read to bring about the difficulties he has had in his work when dealing with the law. His point was, lawyers, today having to argue issues of “beauty, landscape, and nature” are at odds while discussing them as legal considerations for a piece of land to be worthy of conservation on the grounds of “outstanding beauty”.
1 Comments | Add CommentsCoyotl and Rabbit - mythological tricksters
Coyotl
He was at it, he was doing something good, something real good, something he really had to get his hands on. So he approached, “Perhaps, is it perhaps me who should do it? May be, it should be me”. But Old-man was having nothing of it, “No, he said you will spoil it”. So he promised, he did promise, he promised he would not spoil it.
“Come on then, but you most do it right” Old –man replied.
Earth measurements
“How seamless seemed love and then came trouble”
When it finally sank in my head that I had become the depositary of this opportunity, an art residency at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Australia was smaller than my imagination and larger than a Eucalyptus tree’s seed. To have to travel all the way from London to Melbourne, I do not know how many miles away from the old world, it felt like I was the last of so many explorers the world has ever cared to believe in.
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2:00pm Thursday 24 July 2008
Heide: Making history
Heide I tour
2:00pm Saturday 26 July 2008
Heide: Making history
Heide I tour
3:00pm Sunday 27 July 2008
Artists in conversation
Order and dissent
works from the Heide Collection
1 July-1 March 2009
