DOMUS MAGAZINE
Rebeca Méndez is featured in the October 2021 issue of Domus Magazine with the theme Frontiers of Art and Space.
In the article by Caroline Corbetta titled “Starting Again from Mother Earth,” the introduction reads: “With efficient pragmatism, these women artist activists use their work to evoke a new balance between humans and nature, driving change that starts from daily life.” I am quoted saying: “I search for ways to reach, touch and inspire the billions of people on our planet to transform our relationship with the natural world, to create work that envisions a shift in our value system in harmony with all life on earth."
Domus 1061 opens with an editorial by guest editor Tadao Ando, presenting the theme of the October issue: the frontiers of art and space. A reflection “on the history of artistic and architectural expression”, from the most renowned artistic movements, such as Cubism and Futurism, to the student revolutions symbolic of their time. Ando includes some historical examples, including Thomas Heatherwick's UK Pavilion for Shanghai Expo 2010 and Frank Gehry's house designed for himself in Santa Monica.
Casey Reas and Ben Fry’s essay entitled “A Synthesis of Art and Technology” tells the story of Processing, the software they created in 2001: a programming language created to promote the use of visual arts, a digital and graphic library for artists and designers.
The Art section explores the work of artists and activists Agnes Denes, Mary Mattingly and Rebeca Méndez who, working with various resources and technologies, invoke new balances between the artificial and the natural, between man and nature.
Tiffany Lambert’s essay focuses on the works of artists and architects Shūsaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins, “extravagant or kitsch, not to say dysfunctional” but always coherent and ambitious.
In the Architecture section we explore five projects: Herzog & de Meuron's Kramlich residence and collection, James Turrell's Roden Crater, Michael Heizer's City, OLI Architecture's London Cross Pavilion and Christian Kerez's Bahrain Pavilion. Projects with small and large spaces, artistic and architectural, natural and artificial.
The Design section presents Yoshiyuki Miyamae's new collection that draws on the art of Tadanori Yokoo and his historic collaboration with Issey Miyake. “Jackets and trousers, cut from a single piece of fabric, become canvases for the Japanese artist's paintings”.
The Creators column poses the question “What is the frontier between art and space?” to renowned artists and designers: Steven Holl, Manuel Aires Mateus, Paul Smith, Balkrishna Doshi, Sou Fujimoto, Thom Mayne, Bijoy Jain, Bosco Sodi, Dominique Perrault and John Pawson, who elaborate on their ideas through drawings, photographs and words.
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