gonzalo díaz
vera • September 22nd, 2007
Two works by chilenean artist Gonzalo Diaz seen at Documenta 12: Eclipsis, 2007 and Al calor del Pensiamente, 1999.
Eclipsis is a dark space crossed by a huge and very powerful floodlight. Only when standing in the beam you can read the back-lit verses: You came to the heart of Germany just to see the word Art in your own shadow.
Al calor del Pensiamente is a wall mounted typography structure made from boiler tubes. They glow up every few seconds, and waves of heat advance you. Might be translated with: We´re always searching the absolute but all we find is things.
I love these two in particular because I consider “haptics” just as important as “audio-visual” which we are focussed on when talking about interactives.