EXHIBITION
TITLE: AIR / ART IN FLIGHT
PLACE: MULTICULTURAL
ART CENTRE IN MERCED / DIRECTOR COLTON DENNIS
ORGANIZATION:
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IN MERCED / DEAN JILL ROBBINS
ARTIST:
OLGA DIEGO
Sculpture of inflatables equipped
with breathing and movement through the application of turbines, electronic
circuits and programming.
Large forms of translucent plastic,
heat-sealed and textured with heat invade the MCAC space in Merced, California.
Works whose main element is air. An
investigation and a struggle to ensure these large volumes have movement or are
sensitive to the interaction of the public. A fusion between art and electronics, between
art and engineering. With the involvement of electronic engineering some students
worked on one of the new pieces, Electric Grass. This was a real technological
challenge trying to reuse 18 hand vacuum motors through the creation of a
specific electronic circuits and power supplies.
This exhibition was complementary to
the ART IN FLIGHT course that Olga Diego taught at the University of California
in Merced in 2017. This, together with another exhibition at the UCM Art
Gallery, participation in ARTHop, and two big events with flight performances
at the university, formed the ART IN FLIGHT project.
THE BUBBLE WOMAN SHOW performance
was also held for the opening of the exhibition, thus beginning this project at
the University of California at Merced. A project elaborated with the Dean Jill
Robbins.
The MAC space collaborated with the
entire project, and the final flight device was also shown there, days before
its launch on Lake Yosemite.
