Antonio O' ConnellArchitect - Artist
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Antonio O’' Connell (Mexico City,1974) is an installation artist and architect based in Mexico City. He studied architecture at the Universidad Marista and a master in fine arts at UNAM University, Mexico. He worked as an independent architect but his inclination towards experimental architecture led him to incursion in the realm of contemporary art. In his work he questions the sense of “making” architecture and what this means, as well as its conceptual proc-esses by exploring the boundaries between art and architecture in a rapidly transforming age, where the boarders of disciplines are seemingly elided. His reflections concern the contrasting charac-teristics of architecture between pragmatic function and its ontological function, being the last what relates architecture to art. He confronts these two realms of conception by trying to reflect the reality of a contrasting world where imagination is a luxury for some but a necessity for others. His work embodies through ephemeral structures the viral aspect of a decaying capitalist system, with an ironic view of the vernacular form of construction of the developing countries like in his country of origin and the spectacular iconic architecture of the developed ones. He then questions the role architecture/art plays in closing the gap between the developed and the underdeveloped societies, being this gap a conceptual space that needs to be designed by all -not only archi-tects or artists- in a world that is actually not united by technology and the immediate access to information, but by our quickly deteriorating environment.
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Virus ITESM
Sintoma del Virus
Jazzercise
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El Bicho nada es lo que parece
Hidden Garden
Arboles en Cuarentena
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INSTALATION
Virus
Sintoma del Virus
Ambiente en Deconstrucción
Metáfora del virus
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Hidden Garden
Guatemex
Reconstruccion del Muro
Hypermodern
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Sendero de Luz
Instalation
Video
"Self Portrait" Experimental Film
Geckos inspire experimental adhesive
Experimental Beat 2011 Instrumental
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Méxic D.F.Tel: + 52 55 4437 6261
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ANTONIO O CONNELL MFA, Arch.México City, 1974EDUCATION2003 Master of fine Arts Academia de San Carlos/UNAM University, Mexico City.1999 Bachelor in Architecture Centro Universitario Mexico/ Universidad Marista, México City.1998 Diploma in Interior Design Centro Universitario México/Universidad Marista, Mexico City.1997 International Workshop Arquitectura, Crítica y Proyecto Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña with architect Enric Miralles, Barcelona, Spain. ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE2001- 2003 Associate partner of MAC architects.2003- 2006 Associate partner and founder of TRANSEPTO architects.SOLO EXHIBITIONS2009 Jazzersice, MuAC, UNAM University, Mexico City.2008 Inoculación/Inoculation, Ex Teresa Museum, Mexico City. 2008 Reconstrucción del Muro/Reconstruction of the Wall, Intervention to the Siqueiros historic Monument Cabeza de Juárez, Iztapalapa, Mexico City.2007 Virus, permanent installation, Tecnológico de Monterrey University, State of Mexico. 2007 Reconstrucción Idéntica de lo Deconstruído/Identical Reconstruction of the Deconstructed, Claustro de Sor Juana University, Mexico City.2006 Metáfora de un Virus/Metaphore of a Virus, Universum Science Museum, UNAM University, Mexico City. 2005 Caminando por el Sendero de la Luz/Walking Through the Path of Light, Casa Vecina, San Ignacio Alley, Mexico City.2003 El Bicho, Nada es lo que Parece/The Bug, Nothing is What it Seems, Tecamac University, State of Mexico.GROUP EXHIBITIONS2011 Hypermodern, Shakira Pop Festval, Foro Sol, Mexico City.2010 Cuadro / Guide of Emerging Artists, Estación Indianilla Gallery, Mexico City.2010 Transurbaniac, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, E.U.A.2009 O-A.I.R. Artista in Residenza, O Gallery, Milano, Italy.2009 Luna Awards Artistic Expression 5th Edition, National Auditorium, Mexico City.2008 Ithaca, travelling exhibition, Londón and Edinburgh.2006 Hermandades Escultóricas México-Alemania/Sculptural Brotherhood Mexico-Germany, Paseo Montejo, Mérida Yucatán, Mexico.2007 EstacionArte, Exhibition stand for Arte al Día Newpaper, Mexico City.2007 Usted Está Aquí, Habitantes Incómodos/You Are Here, Incomfortable Inhabitants, Mexico Park Condesa, Mexico City.2006 Frontera: Un esbozo para la creación de una sociedad del futuro/Frontier: A Sketch for The Creation of a Society for the Future, Suchiate River, Mexico/Guatemala.2006 Cow Parade México, Paseo de la Reforma, México City.2005 Poder Visual, Placer Visual/Visual Power, Visual Pleasure Casa Lamm, Mexico City. 2005 México 70 Casa del Lago, Chapultepec, Mexico City.2003 Los Divinos Santos de San Carlos/The Divine Saints of San Carlos Academy of San Carlos- UNAM University, Mexico City.COMPETITIONS2006 ASYLUM NYC, winner, White Box Gallery and Wooloo Productions, New York.2006 Arte Fest, World Trade Center, Mexico City.LECTURES2009 Nuova Accademia Di Belle Arti Milano, Italy, visiting professor.2008 University of Liverpool School of Architecture, England, guest critic for the International Winter School: Multipli-Cities. Workshop: Re-thinking the Gap Between Mega-cities. www.liv.ac.uk/lsa/winter/index.html2007 Nottingham Trent University School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, England, Research Symposium: Forms of Identity in the Designed Environment, lecture: Identity in the Mexican Global Built Environment.2006-2007Invited guest to talk about his work in several Mexican universities: UNITEC Cuitláhuac, Universidad Latino Americana (ULA), Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Universidad Marista, Universidad Anahuac, UNITEC Atizapan, Universidad de Celaya Guanajuato.
Virus
Virus
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Estado de MéxicoWood Installation, 650 x 550 x 400 cm2007
The Virus Symptom
The Virus Symptom
Casa del Lago, Chapultepec, Mexico CityWood Installation2005
Reconstruction of the wall
Reconstruction of the Wall
Intervention to the Cabeza de Juárez Monument, Iztapalapa, Mexico CitySteel scaffolding, recycled construction wood70 x 12 x 7 m2008
Methaphor of a Virus
Methaphor of a Virus
Universum Museum, UNAM, Mexico CityWood Installation2006
Jazzercise
Jazzercise
MUAC, UNAM, Mexico CityAssemblage, booths, pianos, and recycled material from previous exhibitions 2009
Hidden Garden
Hidden Garden
O-Artoteca Gallery, Milan, ItalyAssemblage, objects and furniture from a home and an office 550 x 500 x 400 cm2009
Inoculación
Inoculation
Ex Teresa Arte Actual Museum, Mexico CtiyDiverse recycled material2008
Hypermodern
Hypermodern
Shakira Pop Festival, Mexico CtiyAssemblage, wood, car parts, furniture and other house objects800 x 740 x 600 cm2011
Guatemex
Guatemex
Suchiate River, Frontier Mexico/GuatemalaWood, steel barrels, rubber wheel tubes, laptop with internet connection500 x 330 x 550 cm2006
ambiente
Environment in Deconstruction
Sculptural Fellowship Germany/Mexico, Mérda, Yucatán, MéxicoWood installation550 x 600 x 500 cm2008
Sendero luz
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Walking Through The Path of Light
San Ignacio Alley, Down Town, Mexico CityRecycled Material, Flood Lights2005
sabia virtud
Wise Virtue to Recognize Time...
Renato Leduc Strt, Tlalpan, Mexico CitySteel, Concrete, Fibglass900 x 390 x 450 cm2009
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