Creating situations that are not objects is not something new in art. You could say that objects themselves are nothing more than means to create situations, be they sculptures, paintings, drawings, everything. Artworks have always been to create, change, channel mood and mood situations. Individual and collective.
On this side, Saioa olmo Alonso (Bilbao, 10 May 1976) is dedicated to art. It develops artistic projects, even if it takes care of ideas, the way they take. Someone may have heard what they did in 2007 with Consonni: Return of Attractions. He organized guided tours, with his first rockets, to the abandoned amusement park of Artxanda.
He has carried out numerous projects, he has carried out workshops, he has carried out research, he has worked on design and communication. You can check them on your website: ideatomics.com.
To me, since I saw in the Cane of Andoain, the Basque Country TM has always seemed a very fine intuition. This is what the artist says in the presentation: “EUSKADI ™ is a practice that deals with the identity of a particular culture, in this case the Basque culture, as an economic value. This project raises a question: Besides being the name of a community, culture or territorial unit, is there the brand name of a product? In this society of consumption and goods, it analyzes how culture and identity become economic values and the role that the commercial sphere can play in the diffusion of a given culture”.
It has been many years since the project ended, and it can be said that its intuition has been fulfilled: if there is anything, the Basque Country is a trade mark. And it sells Euskadi.
With Haizea Barcenilla, Wiki-History propelled an important project.
