TENALACH
installation insitu at Pisani Revedin, Venice
Hearing the Earth's Voice
"We are the Earth, You are the stranger…'
Alexandra Mas presents an in situ installation at the canal level of the Palazzo Pisani Revedin, serving as a symbolic reminder of the vigilant scrutiny of nature and its creatures. Visitors are guided along a concrete path, leading them into the heart of the piece. Suspended in the air, a multitude of eyes crafted to resemble various animal forms collectively form the shape of a colossal eye, observing the passersby.
Mas's work is enhanced by a choral soundscape composed of voices and nature sounds recorded by the artist, building on her signature multi-leveled auditory experience. This soundscape deepens the installation’s thematic exploration, invoking a sense of indignation and prompting viewers to reflect on their place within the natural world. Titled "Tenalach," the soundscape invites contemplation of the Earth's lamentation, emphasising our status as outsiders on this planet. Through this multi-sensory experience, Mas compels us to listen closely to the Earth’s melancholic song and confront the environmental and existential estrangement we face.
In this soundscape, a tapestry of voices and languages weaves together, featuring a notable contribution from Brazilian-French artist Célia Gouveiac. Her recordings, captured in the heart of the Amazonian forest and among the Fulmi-ô-Povos people of Northeast Brazil, add a rich, authentic dimension to the auditory experience. These are complemented by bird recordings from university professor and doctor in ornithology Tudor Draganoiu, sea sounds from Marco Tassini, and a variety of other sounds provided by the artist herself.
Voices: Diane Pernet, Célia Gouveiac, Gaby Burke, Francesca Fasulo, Amal Ihajri, Ira De Puiff, Hanna Mare, Maria Fatima Haselhuber, Robin Seger, Hugues Lechanoine, and the powerful contributions of several children. Five-year-old Christian Alexander Schanz portrays a bear, Giulio Tassini, 5, embodies an eagle, Leonardo Lechanoine, 6, gives voice to a lion, 4 years old Andrade Da Siva Guezou is a squirrel in a burning forest, and 5 years old Remy Marie Burke is Earth.
installation assistant Veronika Petuchova
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photos Marco Tassini
REBIRTH
insitu
Self portrait, local dead branches, red paint and rope, collected and offered symbolic objects
photo Arnaud Rinnuccini
No Plastic
eco artivism
after the Paza San Marco performance the plastic cape and its videos have been installed in San Vidal Gallery, curator Cristiano Palazzo. The artist wished to present all the route it took from Bordeaux to Paris, Venice, Miami and back in Venice.
For this extraordinary path, Alexandra Mas collaborated with:
Sergio Boldrin and La Bottega dei Mascareri
IFA Paris
Bio Lin Normandy
Robert Trent Jones Jr.
Freddy Clarke
Marina Prando Dance School
Shim Art Network
Shim Eco
Art Miami Art Fairs
Pinta Miami
Aqua Art Miami
Venezia Da Vivere
La Biennale
Venice Fashion Week
Associazione Piaza San Marco
Venice Carnival
Venice Tab Water
and of course, Mas Tassini studio and Marco Tassini
photo Venice Carnival
Tribunalis
Sublichrom on aluminium, 2017
Artist's paintings printed on 1.5mm aluminium foils
video by Marco Tassini
ALL OF ME
a contemporaneous vanity (images from the installation)
Musique: Mike ALTRIN & Vlad STURDZA
Voices: Alexandra MAS & Mike ALTRIN
video Ko-KOK & Alexandra MAS / production 2015
We used generative music to offer a certain meditational dimension to the project. It plays on the cerebral waves with a very subtle psychological effect. This art show caries a profound personal message, as many of us form subconsciously preconceived ideas. We wanted to take you into these dark areas of our minds, where demons appear. In a profane language we might say this is but an unbearable buzz.
In the texts, we will discover five levels, the woman and four observers that Mike Altrin named the four judges: The Love-struck Voice, the Hatred Voice, the Novice Voice (the one analysing himself at the view of another) and the Heart Voice, linked to the portrait with the same title.
“What can be understood from one’s appearance? Intuition, analyse, judgment…. From the moment we are born they attach labels to us. This labels they give you or you take in order to comply with an acceptable and friendly social pattern…fluctuant identity floating on the trends and waives that offer us roles to paly in the life’s grand theatre. Till the day we realise the necessity to break free of stereotypes, till the day we chose to become ourselves. This moving identity, this becoming creation fascinates me…”
By Valérie Penven, art jurnalist
"Installation of about 30 self-portraits put together like a mask game: "If I were to have a different exterior, how would you see me, as the same?" In this group we discover “Heart”, photography and painting on metal.
This work is brought together by sound by Mike Altrin with Alexandra Mas’ voice and text. Préconçue offers a stroll in the deep inner being of the artist. Far from an egocentric work, Préconçue is a voyage in the heart of the studio of a female artist.”
Jean Deulceux Lecturer and Art Critic
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Diva
public intervention
Self portrait for public intervention. During two month, this image was exposed in the Parisian gallery ArtetMiss and people could paint, scratch, hit, stain, write, do whatever they felt like doing.
During this period of time, Alexandra Mas added the people gossip newspapers of the time, offering to the installation a precise timeframe. The artist is condemning both, public's pleasure in trashing someone's image as the enjoyment of self exposer. This is part of the Preconceived works on women image into society.
the result was part of a public raffle and one of the participants has it.
Photo by Ko-KOK
“The scenography invites the viewer to participate. One could see the artwork as performance: they are all self-portraits, or participative works". In front of “the Diva” you will find acrylic paint for each of you to play action painting like a modern Jackson Pollock. Smearing her image shows a detachment of the artist from her image. The final artwork no longer belongs to the artist but to the public."
Jean Deulceux Lecturer and Art Critic
Art-à-Porter
Walking art, fashion installation, art-to-wear, art-a-porter. From 2009 to 2014 Alexandra Mas created a concept for and with French designer Eric Tibusch. They cosigned a certain number of haute couture pieces of a unique technique. A game, the artist was doing a painting in total creational liberty. The designer would receive it 10 days before the Parisian Fashion Week to transform the canvas into glamorous gowns, or futuristic jackets.
They were featured in major fashion magazines.
here model Maria Monduci
Inner Jazz
photo animation with actress Aurore Tomé
Photography is merely a tool or a stepping stone towards creating in situ installations or video works. Her subjects, muses or nature, all take us to a universe of beauty and fragility.
This is part of the 10 secondes Project 2009
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this work has been mentioned in the book Nude Art Today
