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About Time

Andy Warhol´s only known poem

When I started working with these glass letters all kinds of ideas to turns text things into glass keep coming... I was reading Warhol´s philosohpy - from A to B and back again - when I stumbled across this wonderful poem about time, called About Time :)))

I immediatly wanted to turned it into a glass sculpture. And so I did. I chose red, white and blue for colors as in "Very American" and respected his carefully page design for the poem in installing it.

In the way he presents it, there is some echoes of concrete poetry too. He was playing with the words as with the ways he was laying them on the page.


I really did subconsciously take the words on the page for blueprints to be developped. I think due to my architecture education :)))


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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