Jorge Orta (artist)
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| Born | 1953 (age 70–71) Visual Art |
| Awards | United Nations Environment Programme Green Leaf Award for Sculpture (2007) |
Jorge Orta (born 1953) is a
visual artist
.
Biography
St Pancras station
by Lucy and Jorge OrtaJorge Orta was born in 1953, in
Rosario, Argentina. After graduating simultaneously from the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Architecture at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Orta began his career as a painter, winning numerous awards for his work. In response to the increasing censorship of the Argentine military regime, his practice shifted to more avant-garde and alternative forms of visual communication
, such as mail art and action-performance, working in underground artist collectives. He was the first Argentine artist to explore video and image projection technology, staging a series of controversial public installations in Rosario: Transcurso Vital (1981), Testigos Blancos (1982), Madera y Trapo (1983), and Fusion de sangre Latinoamericana (1984).
Orta was a lecturer in the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario and a member of
Diplôme d'études approfondies) at the Sorbonne
in Paris. In 1991 a fire in his Quai de la Seine studio tragically destroyed his entire archive of ephemeral works conducted in Argentina.
Parallel to a studio-based practice and the slow reconstruction of his archive, Orta began experimenting with the technology for large-scale image projection Light Works in the early 1980s and invented the
the Andes mountain range and culminated at the Inca vestiges of Machu Picchu and Sacsayhuamán to partake in the Inti Raymi
in front of 200,000 Peruvian Indians.
In 1993 Orta founded
MAXXI - National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome (2012); Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield (2013); and Parc de la Villette
, Paris (2014). In 2013 they were awarded the inaugural Terrace Wires commission in London.
In 2007 the artists received the Green Leaf Award for Sculpture, for artistic excellence with an environmental message, presented by the United Nations Environment Programme in partnership with the Natural World Museum, at the Nobel Peace Centre Oslo, Norway.
Bibliography
- Potential Architecture (2013) ISBN 978-8862082907
- Clouds | Nuages (2012) ISBN 978-8862082167
- Lucy + Jorge Orta: Food Water Life (2011) ISBN 978-1568989914
- Light Works: Lucy + Jorge Orta (2010) ISBN 978-1907317040
- Mapping the Invisible: EU-Roma Gypsies (2010) ISBN 978-1906155919
- Antarctica, Lucy + Jorge Orta (2008) ISBN 978-88-370-6087-9
- Lucy + Jorge Orta Pattern Book, an introduction to collaborative practices (2007) ISBN 1904772757/ 13-978-1-904772-75-0
- Collective Space, Lucy + Jorge Orta (2006) ISBN 1-873352-34-4
- Drink Water! Lucy and Jorge Orta (2005) ISBN 88-7336-169-2
- Jorge Orta: Transparence. La face cachée de la lumière (1997) ISBN 978-2858932900
- Light Messenger. Jorge Orta. Venice Biennale (1997) ISBN 978-2858932474
References
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2010-02-04.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
External links
- Studio Orta, official website
- Motive Gallery
- Cape Farewell
- Light Works
- Connector
- OrtaWater
- 70 x 7 The Meal
- Antarctica
- Spirits
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