2013 VAMOS FESTIVAL
A public commission for Newcastle’s Theatre Royal
Commissioned by Pablo Leon de la Barra for Vamos Festival, Newcastle, UK
July 2013
Untitled (For Newcastle), 2013
Polyester based fabric
3 panels of 5 x 2 mt.
Linea de hormigas (Newcastle), 2013
Workshop with children at the Hotspur School, Newcastle
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Press Release excerpt: Untitled (for Newcastle) is Mujica’s first commissioned public art piece at Newcastle’s Theatre Royal. The Theatre Royal is a Grade I listed building situated on Grey Street in Newcastle upon Tyne. It was designed by local architects John and Benjamin Green as part of Richard Grainger’s grand design for the center of Newcastle, and was opened on 20 February 1837 with a performance of The Merchant of Venice.
Although Mujica has created many fragile and temporal architectural installations with fabric panels – which always consider their spatial placement and situation as well as the involvement of the viewer within these newly created spaces – this would be Mujica’s first intervention to a historically relevant building and also done in such a scale. In conversations with the artists he explains that he is “… curious to see and learn how the banners will interact with the building, which belong to what we could say a previous cultural era. In this sense I am trying to confront two moments of art history, one represented by the building and one by my banners. I hope the viewers would be able to read and enjoy this. They are also just shapes and colors floating up in the air… which are also two sided, they hopefully affect the seriousness of the building, hopefully the day to day approach that people might have with it.”
Other events in which Mujica will take part of consist in a talk at the New Bridge Project Space, Newcastle (Tuesday July 2 at 730pm); a modernist sculptural workshop with children at the Hotspur School, Newcastle (Wednesday July 3) and he has also produced a psychedelic/op art based poster, in an edition of 300, which is free and available to the public.
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