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Revision as of 16:53, 10 May 2007 by Deacosta (talk | contribs) Originally published in Monoskop My name is Alexander Acosta Osorio, a Colombian by birth and a New Yorker by persuasion. For the past three years, I have been exploring the limitless offerings of New York, an experience that has been at once useful and satisfying on both a personal and a professional level. I am pursuing a Fine Arts degree at LaGuardia Community College in addition to free-lancing as a photographer and volunteering in an art workshop at the Museum of Modern Art. In these weekly workshops, I provide support to guest art educators, as a result of which I have gained a meaningful insight into the different social uses of art. In visual art, I found a meaningful vent for emotions and thoughts that being away from my country of birth brought about and a great medium through which I could recount and relive salient moments of my new life. I have been exploring the relationships we have with the objects that surround us and with the situations we find ourselves in every day. I am interested in how these relationships change the way we perceive ourselves, and consequently, the way we look at things. I started my exploration of art with photography, drawing, and collage here in New York. My photography captures different aspects of contemporary metropolitan life. That said, it is not just urban. I would like to think of it as universal in being capable of speaking to schooled and unschooled, to city- and country-dwellers alike. In my work, I have tried to encourage people to think and re-assess the obvious: what we all see but never linger upon. I have tried to tell stories public and private. I have attempted to explore knowledge both formal and informal. I want to interpret visually that tingling de ja vu sensation we get every day immerse in routine. I want to reflect the feeling of the ordinary and the unique; inhaling the aroma of freshly brewed coffee coming from the coffee-shop around the corner or hearing the same persistent don't miss our lunch special of the Italian joint's barker. In my work, that feeling of the always growing city and the melancholy of present and gladly remembered past times,is always welcomed. Today, I seek to pursue a degree in Fine Arts because I am looking to re-invent myself in a new and exciting direction, live new experiences and find new paths to follow. My goal is, broadly speaking, to become a complete individual as well as a better artist. What this means is that I seek to expand my awareness of human nature, as well as my knowledge and vision of the world. I want to branch out and diversify the media I use in order to be able to develop my own visual language through which I can communicate this reality of ours in a coherent and meaningful form. I believe that my artistic experience will be greatly enriched by changing the cultural setting in which my baptism in the arts took place.which means that i want to travel alot! Culture is the basic material of my art, my laboratory, and the reason of my endeavors. Culture to me, is a live organism which in its own merit deserves to be exposed. In my work, I intend to communicate and express ideas and thoughts to generate provocative personal feelings and social awareness of what we are as individuals, and how the way we live today in society morphs constantly. I believe that my artistic experience and craft will greatly be enriched by pursuing mayor studies and traveling.I would like to continue this artistic exploration in order to achieve satisfactory results.

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User:Deacosta Revision as of 05:35, 5 October 2006 by Deacosta (talk | contribs) (→‎THE CONSPIRACY OF ART) Originally published in Monoskop "ANDY WARHOL WAS THE GREATEST SIMULATOR,BECAUSE IN SIMULATION THERE'S A CHALLANGE,A PROVOCATION. WARHOL'S GESTURE IS AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL EVENT. HE PUSHED AESTHETICS TO THE LIMIT AND TURNED IT INTO ITS OPPOSITE,TRANSFUSING THE IMAGE INTO REALITY,AN EVENT OF PLATITUDE. HE COMPLETED THE CYCLE IN A SINGLE STROKE. I HAVE DONE THE SAME:REACHING A ZERO-LEVEL THAT BRINGS OUT SINGULARITY AND STYLE. EUROPA IS IN GEO-IDEO OUTDATED DISCUSSION WITH NO BORDERS ,LEADING NO WHERE, JUST AS MANY MAYOR ART INSTITUTIONS TODAY,THERE ISNT A CLEAR SCOPE...WHAT A COINCIDENCE! THERE IS AN IDEOLOGICAL CONSPIRACY BETWEEN SOCIETY AND ART,(INCLUDING ART PROFFESSIONALS)NOW ART ART HAS BECOME NULL AS MAYOR ART INSTITUTIONS ARE MORE CONCERNED IN RUNNING THEMSELVES AS TURISTIC ATTRACTIONS TO REALLY BOTHER WITH ART OR WITH WHAT IT MEANS.ART HAS BECOME JUST ANOTHER FORM OF BUSINESS. SOME BELIEVE ART IS NULL,AS THE CONSPIRACY OF ART STATES: "ART HAS COMPLETED ITS CICLE,ITS SIMULATION AS ANDY WARHOL WAS THE GREATEST SIMULATOR,BECAUSE IN SIMULATION THERE'S A CHALLANGE,A PROVOCATION. WARHOL'S GESTURE IS AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL EVENT. HE PUSHED AESTHETICS TO THE LIMIT AND TURNED IT INTO ITS OPPOSITE,TRANSFUSING THE IMAGE INTO REALITY,AN EVENT OF PLATITUDE. HE COMPLETED THE CYCLE IN A SINGLE STROKE. I HAVE DONE THE SAME:REACHING A ZERO-LEVEL THAT BRINGS OUT SINGULARITY AND STYLE." JEAN BAUDRILLARD ART HAS BECOME SOMETHING ELSE...ANDY HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT, HE'S JUST A STEREOTYPE,AN ICON FAR BIGGER THAN REALITY.BUT THE POINT HAS BEEN MADE.ART HAS REACHED ITS POINT OF NO RETURN, IT HAS TO CHANGE,BUT TO DO IT IS NECESSARY TO LOOK AT SOCIETY ITSELF.UNFORTUNATELY , IT IS TOO BUSY SPECULATING ABOUT POLITICS AND BORDERS... what happens today in the center or the art scene: "here was one artist on the panel. She said. "let's talk about gender, let's talk about New York vs. Brooklyn, or about money and the commericial galleries." The curators ignored her. One man from the audience stood up and called them dictators. They laughed and ignored him. The last woman stood up and brought up the point that over half of the MFA's earned today are women, but less than 20% of the solo shows in Chelsea last year were women. They ignored her too" AND IT ALSO HAPPENS IN EUROPE.... BUT THE QUESTION IS: WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT IT?

Elements of Experience | Press Release

Elements of Experience | Espace PORT.A 22-30 June, 2026 (click on the title to see the exhibition) . In the contemporary landscape, where sensory overload masks the structural foundations of our reality, Elements of Experience invites viewers to pause and reflect on the fundamental architecture of artistic expression. This exhibition brings together two distinct voices—Julien Pelloux and Alexander Acosta Osorio—to explore how art can serve as a primary conduit for human perception and memory. Elements of Experience is a meditation on the nature of the artistic experience, a profound emotional, intellectual, and sensory process that evokes personal meaning, deep resonance, and new perspectives. Through painting, installation, and photography, the artists employ minimal forms and distinctive compositions to strip away narrative distractions, revealing the ways in which we understand space, culture, and identity. . For this exhibition Julien brings a rigorous approach to geometric abstraction. Drawing on mathematical progressions and Albers's color theories, his work creates a vibrant tension between control and spontaneity. His clean forms are not merely static shapes but rhythmic perceptions that generate an "illusion of expansion," turning the canvas into a breathing, inhabited silence inspired by Japanese aesthetics. He uses acrylic, moving from a geometric rigor achieved with masking tape to a more gestural, embodied and intuitive painting, worked directly with the brush in vibrant layers. His works convey a poetic tension between structure and spontaneity, inviting us to feel a vital breath, a subtle balance between control and freedom, magnified by the inspiring echo of Japanese culture and its inhabited silences. . Julien Pelloux is from France, he grew up between Bordeaux and Paris and trained at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. Julien has exhibited his work at Paris La Generale, Jean Collet Gallery, Saint Denis, Cretail Gag, and Pantin among others. Julien is also a textiles and installations expert working for American artist Sheila Hicks at Frank Elbaz Gallery. His expertise involves the realization of complex, three-dimensional installations frequently exhibited by the gallery in Paris and internationally. This is Julien’s first visit to Bulgaria. . Alexander Acosta Osorio is originally from Colombia and grew up in Bogota. His first formal job was at Glacier National Park in Montana, later moving to New York City for a few years where he decided to pursue an art education, where he was mentored by American artist Betty Tompkins, Art historian and critic Lawrence Waldron, American Photographer Scott Sternbach, and American painter Dennis D'Amelio, among others. Alexander quickly got involved in the local art scene and participated in a variety of group exhibitions. For Alexander learning means doing. . In New York, Alexander was exposed to a wealth of art influences and experiences that helped him develop a range of work in drawing and painting, leading up to his focus in photography. In his images Alexander explores the relationship of his subjects with their immediate surroundings; in them contemplative moments transform into memories, self-expression, and understanding of the human experience. Alexander is interested in how these relationships transform the way we perceive ourselves and how they change the way we look at things. . Alexander also has collaborated with educational programs at the Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, becoming an intern at PS1 Contemporary Art Center and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in its film and video center. After working with these art institutions Alexander had further apprenticeship training at Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, and Thomas & Associates. As a freelance art handler Alexander carried out art installation work for renowned art fairs and galleries such as Phillips Auction, Art Basel, The Armory Show, Ana Tzarev Gallery, Frith Street Gallery. . For this exhibition Alexander has taken the experiences lived in the United States, Bulgaria and Europe and combined them in a visual narrative of time, color, and perspective. Each image and composition represents a period of his life and the places he has visited. The combination of images read as a dream-like passage rich with textures, personal expression, and emotion. . Each work can stand rightly on its own but for Alexander they also can be more powerful as a single unity, as one experience. . Alexander traveled the United States extensively mostly by train before moving to Bulgaria. He has lived in Sofia for the last fourteen years where he is raising his son. He travels around Bulgaria and Europe at least once a year.