oscar santillan

2013

A motionless marble pendulum. Sphere circumference is 22 cm

Glass window made out of silica, ashes of cremated birds, and cadmium sulphide. Circumference is 47 cm

Video projection fit to scale of a small shelf. Projector is located above. Shelf measures are 24x17 cm

San Agustín (Saint Augustine)

Installation

Motionless marble pendulum, shelf with video projection, and glass window (silica, ashes of cremated birds, and cadmium sulfide)

2012-2013

The work is on view from May 2 - June 18, 2013 at CAC (Contemporary Art Center), in Quito, Ecuador. It is part of the "Mariano Aguilera Prize" exhibit curated by Ana Rosa Valdez.

Photographic documentation by Pedro Cacigal

Quisiera agradecer especialmente a:
Edgar Flores, quien puso todo su amplio conocimiento sobre vidrio a disposición de nuestros experimentos.
Chay Velasco, talentoso colega quien ha sido tremendamente generoso conmigo.
Saskya Fun Sang y Liliana García, quienes con ingenio y convencimiento lograron lo (casi) imposible.
Elliott Katz y Seven Below Program, que me brindaron el espacio perfecto para seguir reinventando mi práctica artística.
Avery McIntosh, quien dedicó su día libre a experimentos en el bosque.
Todo el equipo de DPM que siempre me ha respaldado, ¡sobre todo cuando el tiempo está en contra!
Todo el equipo del CAC, y particularmente a Ana Rosa Valdez y Gabriela Cabrera, quienes han llevado este proceso con total profesionalismo, con ímpetu cómplice.
Y, siempre, infinitamente agradecido con mi familia.

Uriel

Video / 7'36" / 2013

Agradecimientos: Al colectivo SiluetaX, que permitió que este encuentro sucediera.

Participantes (en orden alfabético):

Anahí Ramirez / Gabriela Chilán / Jessica Cruz / María Sol Mite / Pink García

Producción: Saskya Fun Sang

Cámara y Fotografía: Ricardo Coello / Xavier Coronel / Jorge Morocho

Sonido: 'Ruido Rosa', composición original de Christian Proaño

Dirección: Oscar Santillán

Pulverem Aurum
Photograph
110x140 cm
2012-2013

Photograph documenting the coalescence of a mirror, honey, gold dust, milk, a bee, and a piece of the forest.

Artist Oscar Santillan lecturing at the Jan van Eyck Academie, in The Netherlands, where he currently is an artist-in-residence.

Finale - work commissioned by the Carrillo Gil Museum for "Los Irrespetuosos" show

Finale / A clairvoyant describes to a curator the way in which he is going to die / Event documented on video / 2012

As a response to an invitation to create a new work for an exhibition, I asked the curator of the exhibit, Carlos E Palacios, to take part in it.
In consequence, the curator kindly agreed to participate on a session with a clairvoyant, Master Kiron, in which -through a reading of his eyes- the moment of his death is carefully described.
The session and the afterwards reenactment -in which the curator plays his own death according to the clairvoyant’s description- were registered on video. All the elements, including the music, only appear according to what was said by Kiron.
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Ante la invitación para crear un nuevo trabajo para una exhibición, le propongo al curador de la misma, Carlos Palacios, la posibilidad de tener una sesión con un clarividente, el maestro Kirón, quien mediante una lectura de los ojos de Carlos tendría acceso al momento de su muerte.
Esta es la documentación tanto de la sesión como del reenactment del curador interpretando su propia muerte acorde con la narración del clarividente. Todos los elementos, incluyendo la música, provienen estrictamente de lo revelado por Kirón.

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Créditos:
Finale fue posible gracias al aporte y las ganas del Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, en Ciudad de México, para ellos muchas gracias por producir y financiar este trabajo.
Así mismo, gracias especiales a Carlos por su arrojo y valiente apertura, así como a Paola y todos quienes hacen el MACG.
El trabajo de cámara fue realizado por Alexandra Barao y Oscar Santillán,
Los equipos y datos técnicos fueron provistos por Jasso.
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La música proviene de la película "Las Islas Marías" dirigida por Emilio Fernández, y presenta a Pedro Infante en el papel principal.

Seven Below Residency Program

The Annunciation / Photograph of baby powder on a forest / 100x150 cm / 2012

Accompaniment for a Falling Leaf / Event documented on video / 2012

Lucerna

These are posts and reviews about Lucerna, the solo show that is currently taking over the four floors of the amazing Odeon Foundation, in Bogota, Colombia:
Download PDF Catalogue (english/spanish)
Review at Esfera Publica (spanish)
Interview at Exclama (spanish)

And here, a couple of the new works included in the show:

Cloud
A cloud trapped inside of a marble volume
2012

All The Eyes Of The Universe
All the eyes from every Star Trek movie
Videoinstallation
2012

La Clairvoyance
Video
2012

Works accomplished on the last months

Slide projection documenting an action carried out by artist Oscar Santillan.

Photography by Alexandra Barao

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La Clairvoyance (I)
Photographic documentation of the moment in which a horse stares at bubble made from his own semen
100x66.5 cm 2012
Ed. 3+AP

La Clairvoyance (II)
Photographic documentation of the moment in which a horse stares at a bubble made from his own semen
100x66.5 cm
2012
Ed. 3+AP

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Color Semen (I)
Photographic documentation of the result of a masturbation by the artist after being injected vegetable pigments into his seminal vesicles
100x150 cm
2011-2012

Color Semen (II)
Photographic documentation of the result of a masturbation by the artist after being injected vegetable pigments into his seminal vesicles
100x150 cm
2011-2012

New Videos

The Telepathy Manifesto / Video loop / 2011
Performing: Daniel Beckwith and Oscar Santillan
Camera: Alexandra Barao and Stephen Williams

Cascade / Video loop / 2009-2011
Produced by: Josie Lewis and Daniel Beckwith

The Cannibals / Video loop / 2011 / in collaboration with artist Signe Schmidt

2011

VCU MFA Thesis Show

/// general view of the show ///
Special thanks to artists Jessica Dodd, Josie Lewis, Will Machin and Josh Bennett for their support with the installation.

Twins / Cast light and cast cake / 2011
Produced by Stephen Williams

A Knife To Defeat The Night's Breeze / Ashes of a coyote / 2009-2011
Produced by Daniel Beckwith and Oscar Santillan
Special thanks to Verena Schatz, Alexa Leister-Frazier, Josie Lewis, and Stephen Williams

Juana Ines de la Cruz / Several beings with long hair / 2010-2011
Produced by Alexandra Barao
Special thanks to the participants: Melissa Lesh, Loie Hollowell, Georgi Ivanov, Emily Sydnor, Jackie Rhines, Renee Doorly and Jackie Picariello
And, thanks to Aileen Painter for her support with this work

Ornst / Cast of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, and something that expires on Yuri Gagarin’s birthday / 2011
Produced by Luke Harman and Alexa Leister-Frazier

Some new works

Map and Dust
Photograph
100 x 123 cm
2011

For Juana Ines de la Cruz, Five persons with long hair are somehow within the gallery wall.
Their actual hair comes out at random intervals. By removing the caps, their hair is seen through five holes, being the only visible part of their body to the viewer.
The participants come in and out from within the wall whenever they want and they stay or leave as they wish.

Juana Ines de la Cruz
Five beings with long hair
2010

Horn
Ashes, glass, and wood pedestal
2010

Strawberry Puddle
Photograph
100x67cms2010

The Permanent Blink

Video installation
2010

Every single James Dean’s blink was collected from all of his movies. Then, the 951 blinks were aligned together, creating a video of several sequences of smooth spins of his head.

A projector installed inside the wall projects the video, that glows through the skin of the wall. When the viewer approaches the wall there are no marks, hole, or any sign of modification on the wall, but the very tiny video (about 2 x 1.5 inches, or 5 x 4 cm.) that is running, with no traces of the technology that makes it possible.