September was a frenetic month. My laptop died on September 12th, and a lot of the drawing sessions were cancelled. Plus QUELAB moved out of their old building, making it harder to work in the hackerspace. Most of the AI Art innovations were hype, so I did not keep up with them. However we managed to do a lot of EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Printmaking.
FRANK ROSE let us have a printmaking event in his gallery -- HECHO A MANO -- in Santa Fe on September 14, 2024:
QUELAB hackerspace moved out of 680 Haines and into a new building behind UNM at 1511 Central NE. The AT&SF 2926 steam engine passed by while we were moving out on September 27, 2024:
PAVEL ACEVEDO arrived in Albuquerque on September 30th, to start his relief printmaking workshops at UNM:
While we missed the first two drawing sessions at FUSION on Wednesday nights, we resumed for the rest of the month. They were going to cancel the sessions completely at the end of August.
We had a very busy printmaking month as the EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Printmaking project blossoms.
- The individual Tessellation tiles are posted on the TESSELLATION 2024 blog
Besides Tessellation Prints, there was other printmaking going on in September:
Everything was entirely out of the old Quelab building on Haines -- a miracle. When I stopped by on October 1st the door was open, so I took a few pictures. Then I locked up the place entirely:
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Vaclav Pisvejc smashed one of Ai Wei Wei's sculptures in Bologna, Italy on September 21, 2024:
"In accordance with the artist’s wishes, the fragments were covered with a cloth and removed. They will soon be replaced by a life-sized print of the work and a label explaining what happened."
'Ai himself is known for smashing works as well. The exhibition’s curator Arturo Galansino noted that several works in the show document the destruction of a precious ceramic. The most famous of these is Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn (1995), a triptych of black-and-white photographs in which the artist holds and then drops a 2,000-year-old vessel. It is a commentary on China’s deliberate erasure of its cultural heritage."
Apparently Vaclav Pisvejc presented his portrait painting to Ai Wei Wei, some time before he smashed Ai Wei Wei's sculpture:
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