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VAKTMESTER MANDAL 2013 / ANDREAS FORTES
While walking around the city talking about it, we meet it, the real art.
Here. We see a shop that is not a shop. Art is here. Art is taking the form of a shop. Lets talk to art. We send a mail and get an invitation to talk art. To talk now. Art to art.
Andreas Fortes, the janitor and artist in residence at Vaktmester Mandal: Department of Life Support, opens the door. He kindly offers warm coffee to these two artists in the role of interviewers. We love kindness in art. As we enjoy the coffee we talk with passion about the art Fortes is busy with at the moment. There are a lot of objects in the space, and paintings.
Fortes is a painter and installation artist, who studied in London, but was born and raised in Trondheim, spending his childhood and youth in and around the restaurant run by his family, and close to the visitors that came for the accommodation offered. In this life of being an artist with a background in neighbourly outreaching, Fortes lets his role as janitor of the house and commercial venue he works in, influence the art. It is a way to live on the front line, where things happen to be real.
Annother idea Fortes is working with is to spread the word of the need to colonize old abandoned spaces in the city. By placing himself into the real, his own artwork complexifies.
Vaktmester Mandal presents installations with all kinds of objects, mostly life related, memory condensed materiality. We loved to see some pizza pans as canvases. The artistic activity at the Department of Life Support also provides a build-up to collective shows in the city. The real, the social, the memory, the city, the objects and the paintings are the basic ingredients in the artistic reality of life as a janitor.
We love to know the front line is busy.
This conversation is part of the STRUCTURAL BASIS of FROZEN HEAT,
ONLINE ARTSHOWS (2014-2015) upcoming art series curated by LLLL
as satellites of LAPIEZA ART SERIES.
http://andreasfortes.com/
http://
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VAKTMESTER MANDAL 2013 / ANDREAS FORTES
LLLL ART AGENCY
While walking around the city talking about it, we meet it, the real art.
Here. We see a shop that is not a shop. Art is here. Art is taking the form of a shop. Lets talk to art. We send a mail and get an invitation to talk art. To talk now. Art to art.
Andreas Fortes, the janitor and artist in residence at Vaktmester Mandal: Department of Life Support, opens the door. He kindly offers warm coffee to these two artists in the role of interviewers. We love kindness in art. As we enjoy the coffee we talk with passion about the art Fortes is busy with at the moment. There are a lot of objects in the space, and paintings.
Fortes is a painter and installation artist, who studied in London, but was born and raised in Trondheim, spending his childhood and youth in and around the restaurant run by his family, and close to the visitors that came for the accommodation offered. In this life of being an artist with a background in neighbourly outreaching, Fortes lets his role as janitor of the house and commercial venue he works in, influence the art. It is a way to live on the front line, where things happen to be real.
Annother idea Fortes is working with is to spread the word of the need to colonize old abandoned spaces in the city. By placing himself into the real, his own artwork complexifies.
Vaktmester Mandal presents installations with all kinds of objects, mostly life related, memory condensed materiality. We loved to see some pizza pans as canvases. The artistic activity at the Department of Life Support also provides a build-up to collective shows in the city. The real, the social, the memory, the city, the objects and the paintings are the basic ingredients in the artistic reality of life as a janitor.
We love to know the front line is busy.
This conversation is part of the STRUCTURAL BASIS of FROZEN HEAT,
ONLINE ARTSHOWS (2014-2015) upcoming art series curated by LLLL
as satellites of LAPIEZA ART SERIES.
http://andreasfortes.com/
http://
RELATED VITAMIN 026 (III/-)
Yo estoy por principio en contra de trabajar mucho, sin excluir mi persona.
El aire aquí es barato y en la luna caro. Para el artista todos los materiales son iguales y preciosos. Y estoy a favor de que la gente mire al mundo con ojos de artista. El revoco de cal es una piel. La piedra es constructiva. A pesar de su parecida composición química, existe entre ambos la mayor diferencia en su utilización. El revoco de cal tiene más parecido con el cuero, tapiz, materiales de pared y barniz, que con su prima, la piedra caliza. Si se presenta el revoco de cal sinceramente, como revestimiento del muro de ladrillos, tiene tan poco de qué avergonzarse de su modesta procedencia como lo tiene el tirolés de sus pantalones de cuero en el Castillo imperial. Pero si ambos se ponen el frack y cintas blancas, ese hombre se sentirá allí inseguro, y el revoco de cal se dará cuenta de repente de que es un estafador.
No construyas pintoresco. Deja tal efecto para los muros, las montanas y el sol. El hombre que se viste de manera pintoresca no es pintoresco, sino un payaso. El campesino no viste de manera pintoresca. Construye tan bien como puedas. No mejor. No te vanaglories. Y no peor. No te rebajes con intención hasta un nivel más bajo del que fuiste colocado por tu nacimiento y educación. Incluso cuando vayas a las montañas. Habla con los campesinos en tu lengua. El abogado vienés que habla con el campesino en el dialecto del picapedrero tiene que desaparecer. Fíjate en las formas en las que construye el campesino. Pues son de la sustancia acumulada de la sabiduría de los antepasados. Pero busca el porqué de la forma. Si los adelantos de la técnica han hecho posible mejorar. esa forma, empléese siempre esa mejora. La hoz es sustituida por la trilladora. La llanura necesita una estructuración arquitectónica vertical; la montaña, una horizontal. No pienses en el tejado, sino en la lluvia y la nieve. Así piensa el campesino, y por ello construye en las montañas el tejado más plano que le es posible según sus conocimientos técnicos. En las montañas la nieve no debe deslizarse cuando ella quiere, sino cuando el campesino quiera. El campesino, por tanto, tiene que poder escalar el tejado sin peligro para su vida, para poder quitar la nieve.
Adolf Loos
Escritos sobre la casa
1911-1930
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