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2016 USA Presidential madness

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

That the USA elected a moron sociopath like Donald Trump was so traumatizing and depressing that I couldn´t work... My "Concrete Suite" was all ready to start and I just couldn´t make any work. What for? I thought... This is the end of the world :)))

Then this came to mind. I thought I could start with the black poems as a way of letting out the shock and disgust. But soon the words themselves started to choose themselves (pain, fear, hate and rage).

Funny enought I could work on these... But it was so specific as an empotional response, that I decided to turned them into a work on their own. Black has not only dark connotations, and I did not want that in the series all the black words were so negative.

So I made this Black Cross and dedicated it to this very terrible electoral result.


The good news is that today, 7 years after (he did not get re-elected thank god) he has actually 7 criminal charges open and might end up in jail. So the anger and frustrations of all of us were more than justified. And justice seems not totally gone in the USA, but it shouldn´t take so much effort.

Project Gallery

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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