My Buenos Aires Design / Mi Diseño Buenos Aires
Is it possible not to bring Buenos Aires to Manila?
My Buenos Aires Design is the visual expression of innumerable personal experiences, difficulties and achievements, feelings and associations, ideas and recollections; they are all linked to Buenos Aires, the city in which I was born in 1963. Mariano Akerman
¿Acaso es posible no traer Buenos Aires a Manila?
MI DISEÑO BUENOS AIRES es la expresión visual de un sinnúmero experiencias personales, dificultades y logros, sensaciones y asociaciones, ideas y recuerdos, todos ellos ligados con Buenos Aires, ciudad donde nací en 1963. Mariano Akerman
2. Graphic Design, state 1
3. Mariano Akerman, Flor con ritmo (Flower with rhythm), 1981
4. Buenos Aires, Plaza de la Victoria (Square of the Victory), 1840
5. Clipping, showing part of a figure by Renata Shusheim
6. Héctor Borla, Naturaleza muerta (Still Life), 1982
7. Atlantes y cariátides (Atlantes & caryatids)
8. Mariano Akerman, Los caprichos del invierno, 1983
(Winter Caprices)
9. Cabeza de genio (Genius’ Head), c. 1930
10. Buenos Aires, Fábrica (Factory)
11. Mariano Akerman, Arquitectura 2 (Architecture 2), 1999
12. Buenos Aires, Cabildo (Colonial Town Hall)
13. Buenos Aires, Obelisco (Obelisk)
14. Noé, Introducción a la esperanza (Introduction to hope), 1971
15. Quino, Sin título (Untitled), c.1986
16. Buenos Aires, Subterráneo (Subway)
17. Tango “El Arranque” (“All of a sudden,” Tango)
18. Buenos Aires, Caminito
19. Benito Quinquela Martín, A pleno sol (Under the Sun), 1931
20. Jorge Gamarra, Urunday y cáñamo (Urunday and Hemp), 1992
21. Buenos Aires, Fuente de las neréidas (Fountain, by Lola Mora)
22. Buenos Aires, Costanera Sur
23. Mariano Akerman, Tango-Relieve 2 (Tango-Relief 2), 27 December 2005.
24. Buenos Aires, Puerto Madero
25. Buenos Aires, Retiro
26. Buenos Aires, Jardín Botánico (Botanical Gardens)
27. Correa Morales, Ondina del Plata, c. 1880
28. Mariano Akerman, La bella y la bestia (Beauty and the Beast), 1986
30. Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Museum of Fine Arts)
31. Mariano Akerman, Madre e hijo (Mother and Child), 1981
32. Buenos Aires, Recoleta
33. Eduardo McEntyre, Dinámica en ocres (Dynamic in Ochres), 1989
34. Buenos Aires, Club de Pescadores (Fishermen’s Club)
35. Mildred Burton, El robo de Juanoso (Juanoso’s Theft), 1980
36. Carlos Nine, Poesía (Poetry), 1999
37. Aldo Sessa, El Rosedal, 1991.
38. Mariano Akerman, ¡Cómo te quiero! (The Way I Love You), 1989
39. Buenos Aires, Flor genérica (Generic Flower)
40. Lo que tienen en la cabeza (What they have in mind), c. 1975
41. Buenos Aires, Facultad de Derecho (Faculty of Law)
42. Osky, Prehistoria (Pre-historical Times), 1958
43. Buenos Aires, Planetario (Planetarium)
44. Pablo Curatella Manes, Los acróbatas (The Acrobats), 1923
45. Emilio Petorutti, Sol Argentino (Argentinean Sun), 1941
(Kavanagh Building, by Estudio Sánchez, Lagos y De la Torre)
47. Bertani, Disculpe, no hay fondos (Sorry, No Founds), 1992.
48. Pablo Suárez, Dudas en la cornisa (Doubts in the cornice), 2005
49. Mariano Akerman, Centauro (Centaur), 1990
50. Graphic Design, state 2
51. Mariano Akerman, My Buenos Aires Design (true colors), 2006
Cataloging. Akerman, Mariano. Akermariano. My Buenos Aires Design, Mi Diseño Buenos Aires. August 2006. Visual Arts Digital Exhibit. Argentinean arts and culture. Drawing, sketch, automatism, graphic design, architectural design, caricature, illustration, engraving, painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, dance, reflection, dialog, education. Exposición digital de cultura y artes visuales de Argentina. Dibujo, boceto, automatismo, diseño gráfico, diseño arquitectónico, caricatura, ilustración, grabado, pintura, escultura, arquitectura, fotografía, danza, reflexión, diálogo, educación. Images have been included in the present article to express a non-profit viewpoint. Las imágenes incluidas en este trabajo expresan un punto de vista personal, exento de propósitos pecuniarios. © Mariano Akerman. All Rights Reserved. Todos los derechos reservados.
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Yet another "mixed bag"...but I love it!
Humorous...quirky...sensual ...beautiful....fantasy...they are all here.. Loved #2 and #50...I take them to be representative of the ego... loved #40..and #48[LOL] Loved the tango picture and relief...yes, like you pointed out, tango is masochist (had not thought of it that way before)...but there is beauty in the movement...like poetry in motion. #49...truly minimalistic and abstract...accidental or designed accident? Keep the artworks coming...would like some texts with them..if you could say what you liked in each art work (or at least in your favourites)... [SMILE] |
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[HEART] Thanks for visiting My Buenos Aires Design.
I really agree with your interpretation of the graphic designs. #40 is a revelation, isn't it? #48 is certainly grotesque--it mixes up the comic and the terrifying. A word to the tango issue. Tango is undoubtedly something that expresses human emotions, such as passion and sadness. But we shouldn't automatically connect tango with violence. (The dominance-submission factor is as present in tango as it is in leveryone's life). Tango actually has also to do with love and with being authentic. That's why you find beauty and poetry in it. And I think you are right and I totally agree with you. #49 is a mysteriously designed figure. Abstract? not at all. By the way, are you an architect too? Once again, thanks a lot for your comments and suggestions I'll keep them in mind. [ROLLEYES][HEART] |
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#50 is sad. These are really interesting.. [THUMBUP] |
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[HEART] Thank you for visiting My Buenos Aires Design. You think #50 is sad. Why? I think #3, 28, 31, 38, 44, 49 are 50 are happy. What is it that you find interesting? |
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Because it's the opposite of #2. When I first saw number two.. It reminded me of the ugly duckling.. Reflection showed the truth.. Instead of a "boring, ugly" duck, it was a wonderous swan. But 50 is the opposite... I just find it sad..
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[SMILE] Well, if that's the way you see it, then, yes, you are right. There is the idea of reflection in both graphic designs. But, hasn't reflection to do o with appearance? I've included the designs in My Buenos Aires Design to allude to the ideas of identity, time and transformation. In #2 we have the ugly duckling as reality, whereas in #50 we have the swan as reality. We can focus on reflection. Yet, I concentrate the idea of reversal. I see UP as PRESENT and DOWN as PAST. Not paying much attention to the idea of reflection (illusion), I see identity as a key element (reality). Thus, in #50, the ugly side is upside-down and the beautiful one has finally emerged (becomes real). Aren't after all the ugly duckling and beautiful swan two sides of the same being?
I'd like to know: which are the ones you find interesting and why? [SMILE][HEART] |
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Sreediva: life is a mixed bag; our experiences are mixed bags; reality is a mixed bag... do not expect me to exemplify some theoretical purity.
Only in my blogster photoalbum--which actually IS a mixed bag--you'll find truly remarkable examples of purity. Please, check them all. [HEART] |
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Thanks for sharing...
In Malayalam there is a saying that there are two sights that one never tires of: the Sea and the Elephant!..I would add two of my own..a new born baby and a sleeping child. I agree with you that they embody purity... Personally speaking I do not like digitally altered images of purity. Thus those images would have been more "pure" to me had they not been super imposed on a hand...out of the normal proportion of a baby in one's hands. Laurel and Hardy...( like Tom and Jerry) ...humour and simplicity that brings out the child in adults! Yes, art is upposed to speak by itself and texts would be superflous..I asked for your comments because we could learn to sensitise ourselves more through training from experts in the field...[SMILE] |
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Te quiero tanto y tanto! Silvia
[COOL] Y yo no menos ... [HEART] |
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Handsoftissue: you're totally right about #5. Gaurico Pomponio (funny name, isn't it?) wrote a complete theory explaining that the eyes are the windows of the soul. This was apparently true in Renaissance times. After WWII... things are different. Eyeless, brainless, soulless... "everything goes." Concerning picture #5, I've removed the upper part of the figure's head to concentrate on its mouth expression.
The images in my article, you know, are different aspects of my Buenos Aires experience (1963-1991, and a little bit more here and there), those personal experiences, difficulties and achievements, feelings and associations, ideas and recollections that I link to Buenos Aires. #27 is one of my favorites too. It is surrounded by waterlilies. Some people call this sculpture "Primavera" (Spring), but I prefer its original title, "Ondina del Plata," which alludes to the smooth, delicate waves of the Rio de la Plata.[HEART] |
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Yes, I have studied Architecture...[SMILE].
loved the space in #22..the trellised walk way...to enjoy the walk...to sit and enjoy the view..I do hope there is a good view adjacent to it...a garden or a waterbody? Also liked the structures in #24 and 39...very elegant and imaginative. I found #48 funny because rather than a person rethinking suicide, I was reminded of a person escaping from somebody inside who might have "surprised" him...maybe because of his state of undress![SMILE] |
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#22. Yes, both water and park.
#24. A great place to visit: it includes excellent food and tango show. #39. Opens and closes, depending on time and wheather. #48. Unsurpassable interpretation! Never thought of it that way. I love it. [THUMBUP] |
Intersting and why: Number 5.. Because when I first see it.. It reminds me of a mask. Or as if somebody has lost who they are/were. They say Eyes are like windows to the soul.. But yet, he is without eyes. It's like there is no way for him to see himself, and so he had to find himself, through soul-searching. (I hope I explained that well enough)
And I think 27 is just beautiful. With the water around her.. I just.. I dunno. Ive always loved those types of sculptures. [SMILE][HEART]