Articoli di: David Medalla

David Medalla is a Filipino international artist, who was born in Manila, the Philippines in 1942. His work ranges from sculpture and kinetic art to painting, installation and performance art. He lives and works in London, New York and Paris. At the age of 12 he was admitted at Colombia University in New York upon the recommendation of American poet Mark van Doren and studied ancient Greek drama with Moses Hadas, modern drama with Eric Bentley, modern literature with Lionel Trilling, modern philosophy with John Randall and attended the poetry workshops of Leonie Adams. In the late 1950s he returned to Manila and met Jaime Gil de Biedma (the Catalan poet) and the painter Fernando Zobel de Ayala, who became the earliest patrons of his art. In 1960s Paris, the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard introduced his performance ‘Brother of Isidora’ at the Academy of Raymond Duncan, later, Louis Aragon would introduce another performance and finally, Marcel Duchamp honoured him with a ‘medallic’ object. His work was included in Harald Szeemann’s exhibition ‘Weiss auf Weiss’ (1966) and ‘Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form’ (1969) and in the DOCUMENTA 5 exhibition in 1972 in Kassel.

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David Medalla | 19 giugno 2010 | 6.407 lettori

London Biennale: The beginning | di David Medalla

This year, 2010, the FIFA Football World Cup will be held in South Africa. Newspapers and magazines are teeming with articles and photographs of South Africa. There are extensive media coverage of the sports facilities which the South African government has erected to host this global event. I saw colour photographs of the massive new football stadium in Cape Town. [...]

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David Medalla | 27 maggio 2010 | 1.334 lettori

LONDON BIENNALE 2010, OPENING AT SOHO SQUARE AND ANGEL PUB ON MAY DAY | BY DAVID MEDALLA

Leggi in italiano In the spring of 1960 I met a young English clarinetist in a jazz club on the Left Bank in Paris. When I told him that I was about to visit London for the first time, Chris, the young clarinetist, gave me helpful advice about social life in England. He told me the opening and closing hours [...]

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David Medalla | 17 maggio 2010 | 385 lettori

17 MAY 2010 AT 7:15 P.M. | PERFORMANCE OF DAVID MEDALLA IN LONDON

Dear Friends, Warm greetings! Mexican artist and poet Mabel Encinas invited me to give a performance tomorrow, Monday, 17 May 2010 at 7:15 p.m., in the Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H OAL (near the British Museum). The event is free and part of a memorial- homage to the Brazilian sociologist, philosopher and educator Paulo Freire, during Latin [...]

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David Medalla | 27 febbraio 2010 | 904 lettori

“ACEPHALE” | by David Medalla

When I saw the image of a headless man on the flyer of the multi-media exhibition ‘WHITE SNUFF’ which Adam Nankervis is curating at Ackerkelle in Berlin, I remembered a number of things. Leggi in Italiano Firstly I remembered the time when Adam and I were in the centre of Rome in 2005. While waiting for a bus to take [...]

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David Medalla | 6 gennaio 2010 | 700 lettori

MOTHER CHRISTMAS CAME TO TOWN | BY DAVID MEDALLA

MOTHER CHRISTMAS CAME TO TOWN A Yuletide Pantomimeby David Medalla Yesterday, Saturday, the 2nd of January 2010, I went for tea in the home of Hermine Demoriane and Hugo Williams at Angel in Islington, London. Hermine and Hugo are old friends of mine. Hugo, an eminent poet, won the T.S. Eliot Poetry Award, one of England´s most distinguished literary awards. [...]