AUTOMATIC COMPOSITION
Francesco Siqueiros , 2021
"All is political! An argument, that states that, all actions have a statement that promotes a position. Not necessarily that it makes or does politics, but it does engage us to think in the abstract, how the workings of the mind, materializes in concepts."
- Francesco Siqueiros. "Re: Digital Exhibition Launch This Friday." Received by Mike Nesbit, 15 September 2020.
Automatic Composition
Language
open ended
two-dimensional elements
color dynamics
non representational
measurable phenomena
fragment from something else
the idea containing
various conceptual
elements
the physical thing
the abstract
substance
the un-authorship
the anxious entry
survival mode
Free Form
“letting go”
freedom, relaxed, and nonchalant
beyond logic
rigidity of ethical discipline
self-preservation is an oasis
a space of rest
active creative satisfaction
everything is transferred
a fastball
a screwball
sky is blanketed in smoke
the inspirational flow
A social project
a personal project
All is political!
promotes a position
“again and again”
diverse social landscape
“resolve”
back or the front
precious then discarded
being vulnerable
things don’t happen by chance
all is chance
cleansing products mixed with ink and debris
completeness, disembodiment, nonchalance and freedom
“Good Taste”
breadth of range
a space for making stuff
"Seize the Light”
"Continuous Line”
"Automatic Drawing”
art making
not figurative
research on a phenomenon
synthesis
utmost rigor
move towards something
momentum
tend to stir
Show Sponsor:
Lucky Bucket Brewing Co.
Francesco Siqueiros , 2021
"All is political! An argument, that states that, all actions have a statement that promotes a position. Not necessarily that it makes or does politics, but it does engage us to think in the abstract, how the workings of the mind, materializes in concepts."
- Francesco Siqueiros. "Re: Digital Exhibition Launch This Friday." Received by Mike Nesbit, 15 September 2020.
Automatic Composition
Language
open ended
two-dimensional elements
color dynamics
non representational
measurable phenomena
fragment from something else
the idea containing
various conceptual
elements
the physical thing
the abstract
substance
the un-authorship
the anxious entry
survival mode
Free Form
“letting go”
freedom, relaxed, and nonchalant
beyond logic
rigidity of ethical discipline
self-preservation is an oasis
a space of rest
active creative satisfaction
everything is transferred
a fastball
a screwball
sky is blanketed in smoke
the inspirational flow
A social project
a personal project
All is political!
promotes a position
“again and again”
diverse social landscape
“resolve”
back or the front
precious then discarded
being vulnerable
things don’t happen by chance
all is chance
cleansing products mixed with ink and debris
completeness, disembodiment, nonchalance and freedom
“Good Taste”
breadth of range
a space for making stuff
"Seize the Light”
"Continuous Line”
"Automatic Drawing”
art making
not figurative
research on a phenomenon
synthesis
utmost rigor
move towards something
momentum
tend to stir
Show Sponsor:
Lucky Bucket Brewing Co.
Photos Courtesy of Dan Schwalm
Francesco Siqueiros Studio Visit in Los Angeles, CA:
Photos Courtesy of Mike Nesbit
Compiled Video from Francesco Siqueiros
Compiled Video Courtesy of Francesco Siqueiros
Email conversation between Francesco Siqueiros and Mike Nesbit regarding this exhibition:
About the Artist:
Francesco X. Siqueiros graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology in 1973, and from the Sorbonne in Paris, France, with bachelor’s degree in Plastic Arts in 1974. In 1983 he returned to California to do graduate work concentrating in lithography at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
In 1990, he founded El Nopal Press, which continues to thrive today from a studio located in Downtown Los Angeles. The conceptual focus of El Nopal is to underline the heterogeneity of cultural production and to question the hegemony of a dominant cultural perspective. Prints from the archives have been collected by; Museum of Modern Art, New York, Brooklyn Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Grunwald Art Center for the Graphic Arts, Getty Research Center of
Photography, Mexican Art Museum, Chicago, Museo de la Estampa, Mexico City, Instituto de Arte Grafíco de Oaxaca. among others.
www.elnopalpress.com
Francesco X. Siqueiros graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology in 1973, and from the Sorbonne in Paris, France, with bachelor’s degree in Plastic Arts in 1974. In 1983 he returned to California to do graduate work concentrating in lithography at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
In 1990, he founded El Nopal Press, which continues to thrive today from a studio located in Downtown Los Angeles. The conceptual focus of El Nopal is to underline the heterogeneity of cultural production and to question the hegemony of a dominant cultural perspective. Prints from the archives have been collected by; Museum of Modern Art, New York, Brooklyn Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Grunwald Art Center for the Graphic Arts, Getty Research Center of
Photography, Mexican Art Museum, Chicago, Museo de la Estampa, Mexico City, Instituto de Arte Grafíco de Oaxaca. among others.
www.elnopalpress.com