[-empyre-] Paris - Rio de Janeiro Gallery

["arteonline" <arteonline@arteonline.arq.br>]

Hello all,

Today I would like to go out of the Library of Marvels. I would like to
invite you  to browser a work I consider very special:

 Paris - Rio de Janeiro Gallery

This work in progress intend to do a cyberspace gallery from Paris  to Rio
de Janeiro or the contrary. When the work is ready it must mesure 9137 km,
for now it measures only 9,250 meters (ha ha ha), what is already a good
extension ! It is amazing for me to imagine that I have already done 9,250
meters of images. The work began last year (February) and it was a
consequence of the ilustrations that Jim asked me for Paris Connection,
which were a challenge because the width of them should be 150 pixels. One
who works with images knows how diffcult is to work with this kind of
format. Jim and I have discussed a lot because of them, as usually ;-)! I
began the gallery as a homage to him and to all people that had worked in
that project.

It is interesting to follow the work. After a year working in it I realize
that I am not only doing a spacial work, I am also working with time. For
example, you can observe two carnivals in the gallery (2003 and 2004). You
can observe the war against Irak too and other facts that happened in the
world or in my life. I think it is magic, is not it? I am writing  History
with images and it was not my intention when I began the work.

The gallery has some interactivity and sound too, but does not have any
text. It is only a visual narrative and I believe it has lots of suspense
too, while going down by scrollbars one never knows what will happen ... To
the future I am intending to provoke some frights as we meet in some kind of
architecture toys (?) we find in some Parks (Which are the name of these
parks?).

The gallery is also Antropophagic and Tropicalist. It devours French Art and
shows Brazilian art and culture. It is a consequence of my formal education
and as I have said before:

"In his classic work Raízes do Brasil (Roots of Brazil), historian Sérgio
Buarque de Holanda writes that the Brazilian experience is unique: we
constitute a unique, vast and effective effort to transplant European
culture in a tropical and sub-tropical region. As a result of our process of
civilization, our culture has always valued foreigners, and our art-both
tropicalist and anthropophagic-habitually values and devours everything that
comes from abroad, recycling it and returning it to the circuit with our own
distinctive timber."

http://www.arteonline.arq.br/paris_riodejaneiro/


Tonight I will speak about  Seven Demons Got Out. (It is a good issue for
visit before bed...)

Best,

Regina