AGO 026
Luis Felipe Ortega & Israel Martinez
"Triptych" DVD CD
Triptych is a collaborative piece that combines the visual art of Luis Felipe Ortega and the musical compositions of Israel Martinez. Luis and Israel wanted to create a platform for a dialogue between visual spaces and sounds, which provided the basis for their first interdisciplinary endeavor, Solar (2009). As the piece progressed, new rules of assemblage and editing emerged, along with specific concepts central to their investigation: the sculpted character of the landscape, the translation of this into sound, and the necessary intervention of silence. A few months later, Luis Felipe finalized editing Macapule (2009). Filmed in remote regions of Argentina, Luis sought to capture places strange to their time and space. Soon after, Israel began to compose the sound, sometimes parallel to the video cuts, independent at others. The piece is a discussion about the significance of the trip in the present, the relationship between traveler and tourist, and in the manner of Marc Augé—an accounting for what one or the other does. For their third and final piece, Xiriah (1010), sound became the point of departure—an extended note that finds variations in its pitch and frequencies. The image is a flat sequence of 180 degrees, a horizon that intends to maintain itself out of focus until one recognizes an old lighthouse at the edge of the sea. Zoom in, focus. End of sequence. Triptych is normally presented in large format projections in museums or galleries. Presented here in a limited edition of 300 copies in conjunction with Aagoo Records, the idea is to bring these pieces to the format of the monitor, where the spectator can have a personal relationship with the works in a domestic context.