Brazilian Artist is Arts Foundation’s October Artist-in-Residence at Pecos National Historical Park
Santa Fe, NM, October 08, 2016 --(PR.com)-- Bel Falleiros, a Brazilian installation artist is coming to Northern New Mexico’s historic park to work and create there all through October 2016. Ms. Falleiros combines the varied practices of Land Art, Urbanism & Architecture, Psychogeography, and expressive wandering to uncover the spirit of a particular place. This process takes different forms — installations, guided tours, journaling, documentation — all for the sake of something Falleiros calls 'deep truth' art research. She says, “For me personally, it will be a great chance to fuse research procedures that I normally do separately: walking through a landscape, exploring its local history, creating artworks by relating to its spatial dimensions and materials…” Her work at the park is designed to discover the poetics of a particular place, sometimes with the help of the public, other times working alone with elements found or suggested by the location.
Falleiros will give a lecture and presentation of her work at 1:30 pm on October 22nd as part of the park’s Centennial Celebration of the birth of the National Park Service, in 1916. Falleiros has been selected by the National Parks Arts Foundation to be the latest Artist-in-Residence at Pecos National Historical Park, a multi-unit park that contains the remnants of the once vibrant Pecos Pueblo. Located just a half hour outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico between the town of Pecos and the historic Glorieta Battlefield, the park launched a cooperative venture with the non-profit National Parks Arts Foundation to bring artists to Pecos to work and interact with the public for the month of October.
Falleiros brings a unique background to her art practice. Trained originally as an Architect, she is influenced by the almost site specific Arte Povera modernism of Lina Bo Bardi, as well as the pioneering land art of Nancy Holt, and the Land-Based Poetics and Conscious Strolling and Performance works of Francis Alÿs. This mix of influences results in an ever-changing organic practice that is open to all sorts of collaborations and influences. She further expands on this idea, adding, “The arts that most interest me are the ones that are broad enough to engage a great range of people and cultures. In that sense they are more like elemental art, an art that can survive through time and dialogue with works that came previously and will come in the future.”
In addition, she is interested in what exactly visitors and park personnel bring to the collective work of interpretation of such a powerful historical place as Pecos NHP. “I also think it is very valuable — and rare — to find those works of art that can promote silence and the possibility for the audience to be active as they perceive it, giving the audience itself space to complement the work. In that sense, in my practice I give value to the process as part of the art work, to make available to my audience the possibility to experience and investigate.”
Falleiros looks forward to spending the month of October at the park — it is rare, she feels, for an artist to concentrate all she does in a tight circle of space and time. “And furthermore, it will be a great chance for me to fuse research procedures that I normally do separately: walking through a landscape, exploring its local history, creating artworks by relating to its spatial dimensions and materials. And more than that, Pecos is such a beautiful and unique place, full of layers of human presence and historic importance, it would be an unique experience to have a place like that as my studio!”
The Park’s Superintendent, Karl Cordova, is looking forward to seeing the ways that different artists interpret the variety of resources at Pecos NHP. Says Cordova, "Art is very useful to help the public see resources and understand history in a way that broadens the mind and appreciates the park. We are very glad that Ms. Falleiros is here to help all of us further explore this magnificent site."
Ms. Falleiros’ Events are as follows:
Saturday, October 22nd – 1:30 p.m.
Finale Presentation and Open House
Bel Falleiros will speak about her residency and art process in a special presentation at 1:30 pm in the Pecos National Historical Park Kiva Theater as part of the park’s NPS Centennial (1916-2016) Celebration.
Pecos National Historical Park originated in 1960 as a National Monument, to preserve the core of the Pueblo of Cicuye (Pecos) and its Mission, la Mission de Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles de Porciúncula de los Pecos, and over the last 30 years has grown to include the famed Glorieta Pass Battlefield and Forked Lightning Ranch.
The National Parks Arts Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated nationwide to the promotion of the National Parks of the U.S. by creating dynamic opportunities for artworks that are based in our natural and historic heritage. This project is supported entirely by donations from citizen lovers of the Arts, and generous partnerships. For more information on how you can support the Pecos National Historical Park Artist-in-Residence and other NPAF arts programs Nationwide visit www.nationalparksartsfoundation.org or email admin@nationalparksartsfoundation.org.
Contacts:
NPAF: admin@nationalparksartsfoundation.org
505-715-6492
Falleiros will give a lecture and presentation of her work at 1:30 pm on October 22nd as part of the park’s Centennial Celebration of the birth of the National Park Service, in 1916. Falleiros has been selected by the National Parks Arts Foundation to be the latest Artist-in-Residence at Pecos National Historical Park, a multi-unit park that contains the remnants of the once vibrant Pecos Pueblo. Located just a half hour outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico between the town of Pecos and the historic Glorieta Battlefield, the park launched a cooperative venture with the non-profit National Parks Arts Foundation to bring artists to Pecos to work and interact with the public for the month of October.
Falleiros brings a unique background to her art practice. Trained originally as an Architect, she is influenced by the almost site specific Arte Povera modernism of Lina Bo Bardi, as well as the pioneering land art of Nancy Holt, and the Land-Based Poetics and Conscious Strolling and Performance works of Francis Alÿs. This mix of influences results in an ever-changing organic practice that is open to all sorts of collaborations and influences. She further expands on this idea, adding, “The arts that most interest me are the ones that are broad enough to engage a great range of people and cultures. In that sense they are more like elemental art, an art that can survive through time and dialogue with works that came previously and will come in the future.”
In addition, she is interested in what exactly visitors and park personnel bring to the collective work of interpretation of such a powerful historical place as Pecos NHP. “I also think it is very valuable — and rare — to find those works of art that can promote silence and the possibility for the audience to be active as they perceive it, giving the audience itself space to complement the work. In that sense, in my practice I give value to the process as part of the art work, to make available to my audience the possibility to experience and investigate.”
Falleiros looks forward to spending the month of October at the park — it is rare, she feels, for an artist to concentrate all she does in a tight circle of space and time. “And furthermore, it will be a great chance for me to fuse research procedures that I normally do separately: walking through a landscape, exploring its local history, creating artworks by relating to its spatial dimensions and materials. And more than that, Pecos is such a beautiful and unique place, full of layers of human presence and historic importance, it would be an unique experience to have a place like that as my studio!”
The Park’s Superintendent, Karl Cordova, is looking forward to seeing the ways that different artists interpret the variety of resources at Pecos NHP. Says Cordova, "Art is very useful to help the public see resources and understand history in a way that broadens the mind and appreciates the park. We are very glad that Ms. Falleiros is here to help all of us further explore this magnificent site."
Ms. Falleiros’ Events are as follows:
Saturday, October 22nd – 1:30 p.m.
Finale Presentation and Open House
Bel Falleiros will speak about her residency and art process in a special presentation at 1:30 pm in the Pecos National Historical Park Kiva Theater as part of the park’s NPS Centennial (1916-2016) Celebration.
Pecos National Historical Park originated in 1960 as a National Monument, to preserve the core of the Pueblo of Cicuye (Pecos) and its Mission, la Mission de Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles de Porciúncula de los Pecos, and over the last 30 years has grown to include the famed Glorieta Pass Battlefield and Forked Lightning Ranch.
The National Parks Arts Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated nationwide to the promotion of the National Parks of the U.S. by creating dynamic opportunities for artworks that are based in our natural and historic heritage. This project is supported entirely by donations from citizen lovers of the Arts, and generous partnerships. For more information on how you can support the Pecos National Historical Park Artist-in-Residence and other NPAF arts programs Nationwide visit www.nationalparksartsfoundation.org or email admin@nationalparksartsfoundation.org.
Contacts:
NPAF: admin@nationalparksartsfoundation.org
505-715-6492
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Cecilia Wainright
505-715-6492
nationalparksartsfoundation.org
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505-715-6492
nationalparksartsfoundation.org
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