{"id":3730,"date":"2013-03-29T13:16:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T12:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/?p=3730"},"modified":"2019-09-19T20:25:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T18:25:11","slug":"federico-uribe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/en\/federico-uribe-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Federico Uribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Easter holiday or not. Today we take a small lesson: according to Oxford Dictionaries a mosaic<br \/>\nis<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;a picture or pattern produced by arranging together small pieces of stone, tile, glass, etc.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This definition might be quite narrow. But what I like about it is the word &#8220;etc.&#8221; It stands for &#8220;et cetera&#8221; or &#8220;and so on&#8221;. And that leaves room for everything, for unusual material.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of artists who use such material: plastic cups, pens, Coke cans. Most of the times, it is recycled material. I assume that very few of these artists are aware that they basically make mosaic art. And that what they do has a long tradition. Of course, technology and material are different, but we also have given up to go shopping by horse-drawn wagons, haven&#8217;t we?<\/p>\n<p><strong>In my new series &#8220;Groutless Mosaics&#8221; I will present you some of these artists. Here is No. 1.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/31547267\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He binds together thousands of pencils with rubber bands and creates amazing works of art. For an exhibition, Uribe used 1,500 shoes and 25,000 shoelaces to create a collection of animals. Including a cow, a zebra and a duck.<\/p>\n<p>Federico Uribe was already a world-renowned painter, when he started at the age of 45 to create art from everyday objects. The artist says of himself that he wants to create a new nature from its own resources. One might think that he wishes to do a statement to the responsible use of natural sources or to put our consumer society in question. But that&#8217;s not it. He just wants to make beautiful art and make people feel something.<\/p>\n<p>Uribe studied art at the University of Los Andes in Bogota. In 1988 he went for a master&#8217;s program to New York. The artist is a real globetrotter. He has lived in Cuba, Mexico, Russia and England and now in Miami.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Further information<\/strong><br \/>\nWebsite Federico Uribe<\/p>\n<p>Video: Federico Uribe,\u00a0Pelicruise Film Group<br \/>\nPicture: Federico Uribe &#8220;Zentimental&#8221; by sebastiem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pencils, plastic cups, pens, Coke cans. Recycling \u00e0 la Uribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","post_format-post-format-video","post-item","post-even"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}