Something that former Montalvo Artist-in-Residence Daniel Canogar said when we spoke to him a few weeks ago about his work resonated with us: the idea of the countless people who have passed through the Villa Montalvo during the hundred years of its existence. This inspired us to make a trip to the Montalvo archive to peruse its photographic holdings. And that is where we stumbled upon the photos above, showing legendary actress Ethel Barrymore visiting Montalvo more than 80 years ago. In these candid shots, she joins Montalvo founder Senator James Duval Phelan (the man with the distinguished beard), the Senator’s nephew Nöel Sullivan, and friends in the garden and swimming pool.
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Media artist Daniel Canogar’s exhibition in the Project Space Gallery, entitledThe Film Trilogy, was on view from July 29 to October 14, 2012. Inspired by the history of film as it developed in California, as well as Silicon Valley’s pervasive tradition of fast-paced innovation,The Film Trilogy featured three separate multimedia installation pieces, each featuring appropriated and repurposed obsolete cinematic technology.
We asked the artist a few questions about the exhibition. Media artist Daniel Canogar has been in residence at the Lucas Artists Residency Program (with one hiatus) since July 18. He began his tenure at Montalvo with a projection of his monumental work Asalto on the façade of the historic Villa as part of the 2012 Rock the Garden celebration. Participants crawled across a green screen installed on the Front Lawn, while filmed from above. These images were then projected onto the Villa. We spoke with Daniel about Asalto. Interviewer: Something I overheard more than one person saying at “Rock the Garden" about Asalto Montalvo was “How did he ever imagine to do something like this?” Could tell us a bit about the creative process and the thought process that led you to develop that work? Daniel Canogar: It was actually a political circumstance that triggered the project. I was asked to do a projection on a monument in Madrid—the city where I live and have my studio—called the Puerta de Alcalá (the Door of Alcalá). It was built in 1798 as the official entry into the walled city of Madrid, and it was a means of regulating who came into the city and when—the gates were closed at night, for example. Around the time I took on the commission, some truly horrifying images were coming in... On Thursday, November 8 at 7pm, current Montalvo artist-in-residence Nina Waisman will present an evening of dance, movement, and interactive sound work as part of a series of performances entitled “9 evenings,” arranged as part of the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial. Conceived of as part of Waisman’s Body Envelopeseries, the evening will examine the role physical movement plays in structuring human thought. In this video, taken by ZERO1 Art Ambassador Leyla Carleo, Waisman discusses her work.
And if you’d like to see more pictures of the installation at Montalvo, take a moment to look at Waisman’s webpage. The countdown to current artist-in-residence Nina Waisman’s presentation is on!
In 8 days (on Thursday, November 8 at 7pm), she will activate her work Body Envelope (think of it as a six foot square interactive sound chandelier) with a special dance performance she has developed during her Montalvo residency in collaboration with New York-based choreographer Mariah Maloney, and Los Angeles-based choreographers, dancers and artists Natalie Metzger and Flora Wiegmann. Audience members will also be able to interact with and explore the piece.The performance will be followed by a Q & A with the artist and her collaborators. In the photo above, dancer Wiegmann is in action in the prototype for the piece. |