artworks by ASMA (artist duo matias armedaris and hanya belia) .
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ASMA (Hanya Beliá & Matias Armendaris) @ Peana (Feria Material vol. 10, CDMX)
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ASMA (Matias Armendaris & Hanya Beliá) - Stranger Reflecting Mammals, 2020; Brass, silver, crystal, water, flower
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Artist Research - ASMA
Wander & Pursuit, 2022
ASMA is the artist duo comprised of Mexican artist Hanya Beliá and Ecuadorean artist Matias Armendaris. The art they create together reflects the inherent collaboration of a duo, their pieces being the merging of mythology with contemporary, a hybrid of fantasy and the mundane.
CHEST, 2022 (right) 'Le Roman de la Rose', 2022 (left)
Their creations sit between our world and the other, objects with life and life made into objects.
Stranger Reflecting Animals, 2020 (left) Venemo, 2020 (right)
I really appreciate the range of materials used in the duo’s work and the ethereal transformation they preform upon otherwise natural subjects.
Gárgolas Temporales, 2021
Their sculptural work stops the movement of reality into the inconceivable in a way that I feel reflects the elements of movement in my own couch surfing concept.
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ASMA (Matias Armendaris & Hanya Beliá) - Stranger Reflecting Mammals, 2020
[Brass, silver, crystal, water, flower]
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ASMA (Matias Armendaris & Hanya Beliá)
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ASMA (Matias Armendaris & Hanya Beliá) mixed media works
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måste tipsa om ett underbart konstnärskap som jag älskar!
ASMA är en konstnärsduo baserade i mexico bestående av Hanya Belía och Matias Armendaris. tycker det är spännande hur gränsen mellan personerna löses upp. på instagram står inte ens deras namn utskrivna
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ASMA – Hanya Belia & Matias Armendaris
http://relievecontemporaneo.com/8112-2el-duo-asma-exhibe-su-trabajo-half-blood-princess-en-peana/
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Make Room is pleased to present Blossoming Carcass, an exhibition of new works by artist duo ASMA. The exhibition extends the duo’s experimental, sensational, and embodied exploration of how objects enter into a conversation with the world they inhabit. Blossoming Carcass features a series of sculptures, paintings, and installations in the metaphor of an exoskeleton. Echoing a fantastical language, this process of molting as a poetic transformation speaks to the human experiences of letting go, mourning, and reviving: a process similar to that of the insect leaving its pupal body to grow larger.
The artists’ collaborative practice enables the coexistence of differences. In this new body of works, an imaginary space connects a series of compelling personal narratives of death and love. Both the imaginary and the real elements merge in material and figurative manners, transforming them into a third space—a poem about a blossoming carcass as a continuation of life after death. In this abandoned place, growth continues, and the vestiges of a previous natural life mutate into new forms.
A long, gray creature extends across the gallery space like a snake rising with its mouth open. It emerges from far back, through a small, fenced window that connects two different areas. Behind this window, there is a room with a sand-covered floor, where the other end of the gray creature originates, lying on top of the sand and thus inhabiting both spaces. A flowerlike pendulum hangs in the center of the sand room, moving subtly and leaving its marks on the sand. The pendulum sculpture is cast in bronze, shaped like a flat drawing. Tea leaves are suspended in its resin, mimicking a stained-glass ornament, and it holds a rolled-up green leaf in a pocket at its center. Like an abstract form of a sand clock, the sculpture becomes a scribe of its own movement on the impermanent sand surface. The sculpture also functions as a container, holding leaves at different stages of their decay, generating a process of cultivation. In the corner of the room, a dark, organically-shaped bowl contains murky water with aquatic mosses and an organism-like figure at the bottom, appearing through the sediment.
Blossoming Carcass narrates the story of a living skeleton-keeper and her relationship with the creatures in her care. Fragments of this narrative are combined with a material interplay that oscillates between sculptural and painted qualities. In this conjunction, the exoskeleton is an exchange between the structure and the surface, a coexistence of two states. A delicate feeling of otherness comes from within, evoking a familiar sensation linked with the similar human capacity for transformation. The process of molting is taking place slowly, and its remnants occupy the space in an apparent stillness.
About ASMA
ASMA is an artist duo formed by the Ecuadorian artist Matias Armendaris (b. 1990) and the Mexican artist Hanya Belia (b. 1994) based in Mexico City, with an interest in fusing opposites, seeking plurality of understanding. A widening breadth of possible readings supports a de-hierarchization of interpretations, therefore generating a diverse knowledge. The artists focus on developing work produced exclusively through active collaboration, in the way that a Venn diagram illustrates—the collision of two different universes that generates an intersectional area of exchange and syncretism. It emerges in this thin membrane which separates two things, a third living space that integrates them. ASMA inhabits this space actively in the production process, where there is a constant practice of democracy, difference, and mutability.
The duo has exhibited internationally including The Chicago Artist Coalition (USA), Galería Sankovsky (São Paulo),The Gallery-Museum of Lendava (Slovenia), Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Quito (Ecuador), XIV Bienal de Cuenca (Ecuador), Mx Gallery (NY, USA), Diablo Rosso Gallery (Panamá), Galería CURRO (México), Access Gallery (Canadá), Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro (México). They received the Premio Brasil Awards to do a Residency at Pivô Arte e Pesquisa in São Paulo. The duo has participated in various international Art Fairs including ArtLima (Perú), Material Art Fair (México) Zona MACO (México) ArteBA (Argentina), Artissima (Italy) and CHACO (Chile) where they received the Coleccion CASA award to the best booth in the emerging section. They both received an MFA in the Painting and Drawing Department from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a full merit scholarship (The New Artist Scholarship Award). Armendaris holds a BFA in drawing and printmaking from Emily Carr University with both an entrance merit scholarship and The Christopher Foundation Scholarship, and Belia holds a BFA in Visual Arts from the Facultad de Artes y Diseño de la Universidad Autónoma de México (FAD – UNAM). They are recently nominated for the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) Grants and Commissions Program, 2020. This is ASMA’s first exhibition with Make Room Los Angeles.
About Make Room
Make Room is a contemporary art gallery in Los Angeles founded by Emilia Yin and Liaoyuan Huang in January 2018. The gallery presents a diverse program of artists through concept-oriented and space-based experimental practices in a variety of media. With the sister gallery Beijing Art Now in China, Make Room presents the Los Angeles debut of emerging and mid-career international artists.
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Week 5
Fine art module
In my tutorial with Killian, he gave me a few names to research: Matias Armendaris, Hans Christian Anderson, and William S Burroughs.
Armendaris’ work really isn’t my cup of tea - it reminds me of really boring artwork I see in galleries and museums. I liked Anderson and Burroughs’ works a lot more. Anderson’s use of solid colour and contrast fit my attention. It also king is reminded me of the paper snowflakes I made as a kid:
Burroughs’ work is what I liked more, due to the collage aspects in some pieces and interesting colour combos:
I tried to do more experimentation for the background of the collage piece I’m working on, but I wasn’t really feeling motivated so I only got one bit in. At first it was too see if what I before works when I do it inversely bc (it does), and I thought to see what it looks like if I make it run like rain (not great).
Going back to the Pool of Twilight idea, I laser cut some moon shapes of caps sizes on a reflective material as a possibility for the moon in the composition. Wasn’t sure how it was going to go but they turned out fine.
I attempted to record some water for the sound side of things. I want the sound of small, calm waves lapping so I went to the Tay, but it was way too windy and the audio was horrible. I tried again when it was calmer but the sound of traffic was to present. I think I might have to resort to finding something online.
As for the viduals, I attempted a recording. Loaned out a projector and a camcorder and made a dodgy setup - on one side of my room was the sheet of handmade paper with the fabric in front of it, with a large plastic container full of water and a light shining through the water to make the “waves.” On the other side is the room was the projector, projecting the moon onto the paper, and the camcorder on top of it. Boujee, I know.
The camcorder was on top of the projector because I realised too late that if it was to be closer, it would be in the way of the projection, so it had to just be zoomed in. Which was a mistake.
The video turned out horrible quality due to the huge zoom and lack of light. The fault was partly of the camcorder which is too old to be used in these conditions, and partly because of my dodgy setup. If the projector was overhead or something so that the camcorder could get closer, it might have turned out better. But I’m really not sure this is the way to go about it. Here’s the link to the footage after I tried (and failed) to save it in Premiere: https://youtu.be/c0u283uZYF0
Film Module
Not much to report here. I wrote the treatment which I think is pretty alright for my first one, although there’s really not much I can think to include because what we’re doing isn’t scripted. All I can do is describe the concept and what I want the editing process to be like. I’ve got a page done and I’ll ask Gair if there’s anything else to add.
Nathan and I were meant to go out and record this weekend but it was way too damn foggy. If we’re going to make a lighthearted film, we want the weather to mirror that. We’ve agreed to film some settings alone to save time, though. Probably a good idea. If the weather allows it, I’ll do mine while I’ve still got camcorder loaned out.
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ASMA (Matias Armendaris & Hanya Beliá) - Acid rain, 2019
[Acrylic, colored pencils, dry pastels and crackle medium on brass with steel frame]
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ASMA (Matias Armendaris & Hanbya Beliá)
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archeology of the insignificant (ii)
graphite and paint on paper / frame
2014
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