Semblanzas de la obra:
Resilience
Project Contemporary Art Space.
Wollongong, Australia.
La resiliencia en psicología es la capacidad positiva de las personas para lidiar con el estrés y la adversidad. El desarrollo de las capacidades humanas y la relativa adaptación social, el desarrollo económico y cultural para el mundo moderno, en particular, han captado mi atención.
La vida está plagada de trastornos que amenazan nuestra salud mental en diferentes formas.
Las amenazas del medio ambiente, amenazas físicas y ahora las amenazas mentales, combinadas con la desigualdad, pobreza, impunidad y corrupción que afecta a las sociedades, contribuye a dirigirnos literalmente fuera de nuestra mente.
Todo esto puede sonar vago y ambiguo, los números parecieran demostrar lo contrario. De acuerdo con investigaciones publicadas, la demencia se ha agravado durante el último siglo, para el 2020 el número de personas con algún tipo de demencia podría ser el doble y duplicarse nuevamente en el 2050.
Explorando los conceptos de "resiliencia" para construir su obra, Miguel Sánchez Lagrieta, hace que las piezas de arte se guíen a través de distintas amenazas, para después tener un diálogo con estas mismas y así llegar a comprender el grado de resiliencia que puede ser alcanzado.
Su obra surge desde la abstracción enriquecida con una gama de texturas y técnicas que dan a las piezas organización, carácter y personalidad única. De alguna manera, es como tener a una persona desnuda frente a uno, abierta y lista para contarnos su historia.
El trabajo artístico que él realiza, visto de esta forma, funciona también como un trabajo social, proporciona a sus estudiantes de arte habilidades que les ayudarán a manejar su creatividad en un nivel de auto construcción. Lo que desea es llevarlos a través del camino de la resiliencia para intentar con ello, generar un movimiento de nuevos artistas y personas que vean en el futuro un dejo de esperanza.
Resilience in psychology is the positive capacity of people to cope with stress and adversity.
The development of the human capacities and the relative adaptation to the social, economic and cultural development of the modern world draws my attention in particular. Life is plagued with upheavals that threaten our mental health in many different ways.
Environmental upheavals, physical upheavals and now mental upheavals, combined to the
inequality, poverty, impunity and corruption that affect societies contribute to drive us literally
“out of our minds“.
Although this could sound vague and ambiguous, the numbers demonstrate the opposite.
According to published research, dementia has been aggravated during the last century, by
2020 the number of people with dementia will double and then will double again by 2050. Exploring the concept of Resilience on my work I make the art piece go through different
upheavals, to later have a dialogue with the same and understand the degree of Resilience
that it can reach.
My work is a form of abstraction enriched with a great amount of textures and techniques that
turn the piece into an organization with character and unique personality. It is in a way like
having a naked person standing in front of us, open and ready to tell its history.
My artistic work tours in this sense and so does my social work: I furnish art students with
life skills and help them to manage their creativity in a constructive way. My
assignment is to take them through the path of Resilience trying with this to generate a
movement of new artists and people who see the future with a hopeful glance.
Miguel Sánchez Lagrieta & Adrián Salinas, The Dome Solutions
ILLAWARRA MERCURY
12/03/2011
Sección: Weekender
p.25
Mexican artist Miguel Sanchez truly is suffering for his art, writes KATE McILWAIN.
MIGUEL SANCHEZ IS LYING ON HIS back on a friend's couch, jetlagged after flying from Mexico to Australia
His right hand is bandaged, his face pink, his hair singed, and his legs are covered by a blanket to hide extensive burns.
A few days earlier, the Mexican artist was preparing some last-minute artworks to bring toAustralia
While mixing up resin, he was distracted by a phone call. When he returned to add solvent to the mixture it had overheated.
The mixture exploded and fire engulfed his legs.
Despite suffering second and third-degree burns and being unable to stand or walk without assistance, Sanchez said there was never any doubt he would still board his plane and make the trip toWollongong
Speaking through a translator - his French-Canadian friend Rosee Lalonde - Sanchez explains why the exhibition is so important.
"I know that I didn't have the body strength to come, but I had to come," he says. "Everything was for coming here.
"My work is about being able to manage hard situations and pass over it. I was already thinking about how people have resilience capacity - so when (the fire) happened I wanted to show what people have to do through personal resilience."
Sanchez works for a not-for-profit organisation inMexico Wollongong
Together Sanchez andSalinas work to address social issues including sustainability, homelessness and mental illness in Mexico
His classes teach practical skills and also allow families to rise above their life in disadvantaged communities.
"For people that have no money there is no hope, there is nothing more they can see from staying in this kind of life," Sanchez says.
"By bringing this vision of art, it's possible that people will change their view."
By trying to break this cycle of poverty, Sanchez also hopes to pass on the idea of resilience to his art students.
Sanchez started painting when he was 19, and has more than 15 years experience with the encaustic technique he was using when he set himself on fire.
In encaustic, or hot wax painting, resin from tree sap or beeswax is warmed and mixed with solvent.
Natural pigments are used to colour the mixture and it is applied to canvas with a spatula.
His use of these volatile, natural materials is deliberate.
Sanchez aims to breathe life into each of his artworks and, by building up layer upon layer, make each one physically represent the idea of resilience - which he says is all about the ability to overcome challenging situations.
"It's the capacity of each human to put together your spirit and your mind and your heart to face what is happening and make balance, and be able to help yourself and in consequence others," he says.
Sanchez has since faced further setbacks but has kept soldiering on because the proceeds of his exhibition will be donated to his art students inMexico
At the last minute, support from the Mexican government to transport his works toAustralia
So unable to walk or move due to his burns, he has spent the last week in a wheelchair preparing installations and paintings.
And, unbelievably, just days before the exhibition opened he was diagnosed with chicken pox.
Resilience is on at Project Art Space,255 Keira St , Wollongong
His right hand is bandaged, his face pink, his hair singed, and his legs are covered by a blanket to hide extensive burns.
A few days earlier, the Mexican artist was preparing some last-minute artworks to bring to
While mixing up resin, he was distracted by a phone call. When he returned to add solvent to the mixture it had overheated.
The mixture exploded and fire engulfed his legs.
Despite suffering second and third-degree burns and being unable to stand or walk without assistance, Sanchez said there was never any doubt he would still board his plane and make the trip to
Speaking through a translator - his French-Canadian friend Rosee Lalonde - Sanchez explains why the exhibition is so important.
"I know that I didn't have the body strength to come, but I had to come," he says. "Everything was for coming here.
"My work is about being able to manage hard situations and pass over it. I was already thinking about how people have resilience capacity - so when (the fire) happened I wanted to show what people have to do through personal resilience."
Sanchez works for a not-for-profit organisation in
Together Sanchez and
His classes teach practical skills and also allow families to rise above their life in disadvantaged communities.
"For people that have no money there is no hope, there is nothing more they can see from staying in this kind of life," Sanchez says.
"By bringing this vision of art, it's possible that people will change their view."
By trying to break this cycle of poverty, Sanchez also hopes to pass on the idea of resilience to his art students.
Sanchez started painting when he was 19, and has more than 15 years experience with the encaustic technique he was using when he set himself on fire.
In encaustic, or hot wax painting, resin from tree sap or beeswax is warmed and mixed with solvent.
Natural pigments are used to colour the mixture and it is applied to canvas with a spatula.
His use of these volatile, natural materials is deliberate.
Sanchez aims to breathe life into each of his artworks and, by building up layer upon layer, make each one physically represent the idea of resilience - which he says is all about the ability to overcome challenging situations.
"It's the capacity of each human to put together your spirit and your mind and your heart to face what is happening and make balance, and be able to help yourself and in consequence others," he says.
Sanchez has since faced further setbacks but has kept soldiering on because the proceeds of his exhibition will be donated to his art students in
At the last minute, support from the Mexican government to transport his works to
So unable to walk or move due to his burns, he has spent the last week in a wheelchair preparing installations and paintings.
And, unbelievably, just days before the exhibition opened he was diagnosed with chicken pox.
Resilience is on at Project Art Space,
Resilience
de Miguel Sánchez Lagrieta
Cuando el ser se ve dañado por una sociedad destructiva, opresiva, degenerada, desarraigada, ausente de sentidos, indigna del planeta, indigna del alma y de la autoridad con la que somete a las demás especies con quienes comparte el espacio, indigna de la razón que presume poseer, inconsciente, impaciente, voraz, incapaz de ver más allá del presente inmediato, una sociedad desleal con las capacidades de le fueron otorgadas, desconsiderada incluso con sus semejantes, incluso consigo misma. Cuando un nuevo ser, se tiene que enfrentar a todo esto, cuando se le pide insertarse en algo que le es ajeno, ridículamente diferente a lo que él es, este nuevo ser tiene dos opciones, el resultar tan demente como aquellos que se lo exigen y crecer y vivir inserto "normalmente" en esta enferma sociedad, o puede lograr la Resiliencia, y convertirse en un des adaptado de mente sana, corazón solitario, sentimientos honestos y bolsillos vacíos.
When the being is damaged by an oppressive, degenerate, rootless, absent of meaning, unworthy of the planet, unworthy soul and authority destructive society which undergoes other species who share the space, unworthy of reason boasting own, unconscious, impatiens, voracious, unable to see beyond the immediate present, an unfair society capacities were granted him, even with his fellow inconsiderate, even to his self. When a new being has to face all this, when asked inserted into something that is alien, ridiculously different to what he is, this new being has two options, be as insane as those who require it and grow and live "normally" insert in this sick society, or can achieve resilience and become a misfit of sound mind, lonely heart, honest feelings and empty pockets.
Cuando se elije el camino de la resiliencia, la vida se vuelve vacía en un sentido material y físico, pero brutalmente llena de conceptos, sentimientos, acciones, pensamientos, conocimiento, conciencia... Brutalmente llena hasta un nivel en el que duele, pesa, agobia, pero legitima nuestro ser, el ser humano en toda la extensión de la palabra.
When you choose the path of resilience, life becomes empty in a material and physical sense, but brutally full of concepts, feelings, actions, thoughts, knowledge, awareness... Brutally filled to a level that hurts, weighs overwhelming, but legitimizes our being, the human being in all the extra length of the word.
La obra del Maestro Lagrieta no busca en esta exposición poseer una técnica estricta, ni demostrar un dominio perfecto de la línea, el trazo y el color, sino demostrar que la resiliencia también es transgresora. Con su obra, el artista mexicano nos demuestra que en una sociedad enferma, donde el ser enfermo es insertado en la normalidad, el ser resiliente, que ha sobrevivido al trauma de nacer inmerso en esta podredumbre, se vuelve un héroe de sí mismo al lograr la capacidad de transgredir lo enfermo.
The work of Lagrieta in this exhibition is not searching a strict technical, or prove a perfect mastery of line, stroke and color, but to demonstrate that resilience is also transgressive. With his work, the Mexican artist shows us that in a sick society, where being sick is inserted into normal, resilient being, who has survived the trauma of birth immersed in this rottenness, becomes a hero of himself to achieve the ability to transgress the sick.
Tal vez quepa mencionar que para presentar esta obra el pintor mexicano debió viajar 26 horas con las piernas descarnadas por una quemadura de primer grado y quemaduras parciales en el rostro y manos, debió tratarse clandestinamente en un país donde los servicios médicos únicamente son de quien puede pagarlos y en el proceso sobrellevó la varicela y debió pintar ocho cuadros en ocho días mientras su cuerpo padecía fiebres de cuarenta grados y se recuperaba de una tortura provocada por el fuego.
Maybe is good to mention that to make this work the Mexican painter had to travel 26 hours with fleshless legs by a first degree burn and partial burns to the face and hands, he had to be smuggled into a country where medical services are only one who can pay and in the process endured chicken pox and had to paint eight paintings in eight days while his body suffered fevers forty degrees and recovering from torture caused by fire.
La resiliencia no podía estar más presente, y le parecerá peculiar al lector que el título de la colección, Resilience, fue dado antes de que su autor sintiera el dolor y el padecer físico para presentarla. Y aunque no creemos en el destino, pareciera que éste se dejó caer sobre la obra, para que su representación fuera más allá de una teoría.
Resilience could not be more present, and it seems peculiar to the reader that the title of the collection, Resilience, was given before the author felt the pain and physical suffering. Although we do not believe in fate, it seems that this sank into the work, so that their representation went beyond theory.
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