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Sopitas

Sopitas

Ceramic series of the Spanish wordsearch puzzle "Sopitas"

Sweethearts

Sweethearts

After Emmett Williams´concrete poem

CONCRETE SUITE

CONCRETE SUITE

Words as Sculpture (after Carl Andre)

Concrete Suite PHOTOGRAPHY

Concrete Suite PHOTOGRAPHY

The process making the thousands of glass letters opened to this...

FRIENDS graffiti

FRIENDS graffiti

Friends will be friends despite the coats of paint...

Candy´s Room

Candy´s Room

Comission for Denis

Glass Graffiti

Glass Graffiti

Glass letters messages glued on the street

Love Tombs songs in glass

Love Tombs songs in glass

Migrating from granite to glass, heavy and fragile is the world of emotions

New Currency (not for sale)

New Currency (not for sale)

Little bags with words that are more valuable than money

Candy(d) Love

Candy(d) Love

Small glass text appropriated from hearts ´candy

One day my prince will come...

One day my prince will come...

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2016 USA Presidential madness

2016 USA Presidential madness

Traumatic response to the unthinkable... (Art as therapy)

Pictures of musicians

Pictures of musicians

For music critic Martin Longley

TITLES for Peter Halley

TITLES for Peter Halley

His titles in colored glass color

David Bowery

David Bowery

Homage to David Bowie and Marcel Duchamp on the 100th anniversary of the Arch Conspirators of Washington Square Park

People Have the Power

People Have the Power

Women´s march to protest Donald Trump´s inauguration (today he is convicted for 7 charges)

About Time

About Time

Andy Warhol´s only known poem

Glass divers

Glass divers

Little glass things here and there!

Secret Messages

Secret Messages

Find David Bowie inside T.S. Elliot

I love you

I love you

Ice letters colored with menstrual blood, melting in the sun as a metaphor for LOVE

Love Tombs WORDS

Love Tombs WORDS

Photographic series of fragments of the beautiful carving done by the Englewood cemetery on my stones

The Love Tombs going places

The Love Tombs going places

Little excursions to put the stones in context out in the world

The Love Tombs

The Love Tombs

Songs of Love carved on standard granite tombstones.

Church Words

Church Words

Photographic series of a fragment (again) of the weekly marquee of the Church in 86th and Lexington (NY)

Retroprojector and Dope

Retroprojector and Dope

Playing around with things bought on Ebay

PlayButton

PlayButton

Birthday PARTY movie

Le Dauphin

Le Dauphin

Short movie on becoming an adult

In Betwins

In Betwins

Recording my twin sisters to build memories together

ENDURANCE

ENDURANCE

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Pardonnez nos enfances

Pardonnez nos enfances

Photographic essay on the places of my childhood

B&W analog photography

B&W analog photography

B&W analog photography

My own private ARCO

My own private ARCO

A “dérive poétique” through the ARCO fair in 2006 and 2008

The Ideal Husband

The Ideal Husband

After Oscar Wilde

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Idée Fixe  is a Transdisciplinary Studio of Art and Architecture, run by Cristina Guadalupe Galván.

If in a website you normally find finished objects and products to share, what we are sharing here are more ideas – tested, developed and lived -- and their processes, that in many instances ended up happily physical. The creative process is about experimentation and the life that goes with it. The life and the people.

While building this site I came across a quote that explained it to me much better, by architects Josep Ferrando & Marta Poch, for their Quaderns d´Arquitectura, issue 273, THE THINKING TRADE:

      In a world dominated by images of the finished object and the immediacy of access to multimedia content, this issue of Quaderns sets out to reflect on the role of the architect –by means of their working processes, of the working methods (…) leaving the image of the built project on the background.

For artist Sol LeWitt, the process was also the work:

      The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. (...) It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned. 

Architect Josep Maria Sostres said something similar:

      The project, obviously as a mental conception, as a will to form, has a sovereignty, it has an internal power that must be imposed.

So this archive-website of Idee-Fixe, records more these ideas, processes and in many instances the collaborations that made them possible.

It´s about THE LIFE OF IDEAS.

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