Collaboration with Artist Rodrigo Gorosito
For those that don’t already know we will be doing a collaboration with Argentinian Artist Rodrigo Goro which will be a follow on from his puppet falls. Here’s a little but more information on Rodrigo, a young artist who works with different formats. His basis are drawing and painting but he also works as a creative in adverting agencies and freelancer illustrator in fashion campaigns. Nowadays, he’s busy working on a series of puppets which he throw in several cities around the world using different heights & cranes: A performatic work that he documents by video and photography the free fall of the human size puppet into the earth. He’s working with the idea of body suspension in an in-between space, in the air, between the beginning and the end of a journey. Here’s a link to the previous post about Rodrigo
Here’s a few pictures of past puppet falls.
Some details about previous falls from Rodrigo.
I make this man appear in different parts of the world giving new meanings through the same action to show the human fissures. Art cicatrize the soul.
Retrospecive “Man Suspended on Air”
2003 / FIRST THROWING / It was from a 45 tonelads industrial crane in the Complejo Las Torres, Comodoro Rivadavia City, Chubut, Argentine Patagonian. The puppet was made with wood with a weight of 90 kg and 1,80 tall, cover with metallic paper. Time to fall: 3,45 seconds. Several video cameras registred the action from diferent point of the property. Collaborated artists presenced the performance. It was coordined by Fundacion Antorchas as the bachelor “Encuentros de analisis de obra y producción” (Meet of work analysis and production)
2005 / SECOND. Vevey, Switzerland. It taked place in an industrial zone, from The Pon’t de Fenil bridge that has 75mtrs hight. “The man” was a puppet painted on red, with 7kg of weight and 1,80mts tall. Free fall: 7 seconds. A director and several swizerland art students from Ecole Art Academy coordinated this proyect.
2006 - THIRD / La Boca Town, Buenos Aires, Argentine, in the port area known as “Bridge La Boca” where the Riachuelo’s river works as a drain. The man was made with fabric and gesso moulding his original size into a bigger man. This one had 2,10mts tall and 10 kg weight. He was completely white. We register this performance with photograpy and a short video material. The person who droped the puppet was the same as the fall in 2003.
2006 / FOURTH / Patagonian desert, from a tableland in erosion, near Caleta Cordoba Town, in Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentine. It was an experimental work with a maniqui without arms founded in an empty theatre in Congreso town, Buenos Aires. It had a descolored yellow old paper on it and was completely hollow. The puppet had 7kg weight and 1,60 tall. It was dropped for first time for the intelectual author of this permormance and documentaried by local artists.
2008 / FIFTH / México, Yucatán Peninsul, Playa del Carmen. This puppet was a conventional puppet throw from a lifeguard place of work. High: 1,80. Weight: 7kg. Free fall: 1,75 seconds. The person who droped this “man” was a united state deport migrant born in México.
