MARIA VERONICA: GOLD WATER APOCALYPTIC BLACK MIRRORS

Gold, another capitalist symbol, another object of desire, another thing to fight for, another material misused is present in the exhibition in a different way, through photography, drawing, painting and video, recycling Ecuadorian ancestor’s practices who elaborated gold masks and objects using hammered and embossing techniques. Our ancestors reflected their own physiognomies, unusual bodies, and beyond their original physiognomies and wisdom is their resemblance with the God Sun. But these faces could be seen also like unique, bizarre and extra-terrestrial creatures communicating in deep space.

In “Gold Powder Mask Healing”, the artist is reflected like a timeless creature, materialized by her own masks and acrylic chemical composition, that represents her Latin traces in a contemporary universal locality, with a developed consciousness of today and tomorrow’s phenomena. This particular artwork is made in different medias: self-painting, photography (on Hahnemuhle and metal), and painting on photography.

"One of my goals is to open a new gap of creation with gold, authentic or artificial, to place it in an exclusive artistic context, with innovative ideas and aesthetic different applications. I will launch some capital ideas so that gold may be elaborated in a new way within the territory from which it has been extracted, to preserve it for the internal cultural and socio-economic development of the population, and to stimulate the production and exportation of art made with gold, for a positive revolution in the national and international market".

"This is a Gold and Water Virtual Galaxy, a Big Bang representing the occlusion of these two elements in the future. In this galaxy, spheres and spirals interact in a potential dynamics around "The Sun God", creating in its own system new stars, constellations and virtual gold planets that are agitated by solar energy and water vibrational energy. Geometrical and kaleidoscopic water’s visions appear showing us Nature unfolding and the power of Light.

From the mechanization of a water bottling landscape, through her video art work we see an industrial choreography where factory workers flow to the sounds with synchronized steps and movements.

These workers are in charge of bottling water for its future commerce and their robotic motions are repeated endlessly.

This impressive metallic concerto gave the artist the first notes to create new codes for her “techno-constellations”, or metallic visions to impose the last guideline of market demands that enclose the natural pristine virtue of water.

Suddenly, mystic symbols, magical atmospheres and constellations emerge: Rosicrucian’s, Mason’s signs, all knowledge and symbols of the Brotherhoods come universally from wise, transcendental souls, manifesting their disagreement over water abuse or misuse upon which their wisdom was subjected. But, at the end we can witness how nature will rise up, how it imposed itself, how water' nature revolts and razes financial centers, leaving capitalist mafias in darkness, how nature protests without limits because the World does not resist anymore the drunkenness of capitalism. It is time for a long therapy.

Several videos convert the scenario of a water bottling plant: shuffled rhythms on a metal background give rise to stars that open and transform like new techno-galaxies."

Maria Veronica Leon V

The human right to water is fundamental and indispensable, inalienable, indefeasible and essential for life. Water is a common ultimate good; it is an essential geostrategic issue for the survival of any nation; when viewing water as a good of endless value for Humanity, a resource of a highly economic index, a financial asset backing nations that possess it. The global water crisis will take unprecedented proportions and will increase the growing water scarcity in many developing countries. Water resources will steadily decline because of population growth, pollution and expected climate changes. The artist generates through different reflections a scenario that foreshadows the great risks of waste and water pollution in the near future if the main responsible doesn't take care about it.

Water sources and channels that once seemed so limitless are drying up. We need flowing water in order to live, love and have light: “Water of Light, Water of Life”. The internal vision needs to be intricate to the external one, so that what is inside is reflected in the outside world.

Historically, no notion of protecting water or bottling it for human consumption existed, but rules change and international water conferences as well as communities worldwide have studied water systems and redefined their rational use.

Ecuador became the first country in the world to codify the Rights of Nature, a pioneer in the global environmental sector.

Ecuador Constitution recognizes the inalienable rights of ecosystems to exist and flourish, giving people the authority to petition on behalf of ecosystems, and requiring the government to remedy violations of these rights; so that rivers and forests maintain their own right to exist and are not just a property. Under these laws, for example, a citizen can file a lawsuit on behalf of an injured channel, recognizing that the health of the water source is crucial for the common good.

Several videos convert the scenario of a water bottling plant: shuffled rhythms on a metal background give rise to stars that open and transform like new techno-galaxies.

These metallic constellations have risen from different videos of the exhibition. Steal barriers in movement blocking water natural flow, it seems a harmonious structure, but in reality is the industry obliging water to play its game for its commercial benefits. Dictatorship and totalitarian excesses of the Industry have irrupted nature, damaging its health, and affecting the ecosystem.

In this work water is suffering, drying up and dying, being infected by man’s brutality; water begins to exist with “artificial breathing” on a man-made life support system. In the videos the light blue tubes allow oxygen to enter, a treatment to cleanse and reanimate water intravenously takes place.

From different videos of the exhibition have risen these metallic constellations. Steal barriers in movement block water natural flow, it seems an harmonious structure, but in reality is industry obliging water to follow its game for its commercial benefit

"Video takes me to the representation and abstraction of the high-tech industry irruption in the soul of nature and human beings. I choose video as the ideal technique, since its movements allow me to show by series the similar phases of black apocalypses that many different cultures will live in parallel times".

"Sounds of machines hammering our psyches are the hammering actions of capitalism excesses, that day to day demands to be prostrated at its feet".

Steal barriers, metallic cuts, black holes where Earth loses its identity, steal stains, heavy and deafening structures, obliging men to give up their territory just for few coins. Money, the only thing that commands, it is the saint and the punisher, its dark side has created Nature’s chaos as well as a mourning reflected into the future, in successive mirrors of apocalyptic reflections that will obscure Humanity.

These are "Water Waults". Could you imagine what would happen if we could open them??...

...a free water economy?, no future water wars??...

The totalitarian excesses of the Industry have irrupted nature, damaged its health, and affected the ecosystem.

Overlapping time sequences of water emerge from a distant past catapulting it into an abstract location in the future where global apocalyptic realities of contamination and obscurity will disappear.

In “The Star Teeth and The 8 Mountains” there are eight snow caps, eight glaciers, eight metallic platforms have frozen liquid water, the intensity of its name is sounding: WWWWWWWW, water, aguu, wua, water.

We are individually a world of water, but the nature of water is so neglected that it begins to be solidified in man’s conscience until the extreme interests of capitalism darken its blue.

The metallic star intends to devour the eight mountains, the teeth of industry are picking the mountains’ ice. Freezing WW’s are very rigid, and the industrial star does not shine anymore.

Money is “the saint” and the punisher, the one that creates nature’s darkness, and it causes a mourning reflected into the future, in successive mirrors of apocalyptic reflections that will destroy Humanity.

A sound choreography directs the images I project. We will see the outcome of industrial rigidity: its violence, the tenacity of power groups, their congresses lacking humanity, the future dissolution of their powers, and the demise of the materialist grasp.

With the assistance of technology in my video work the symbols of chaos emerge, representing the rupture of power systems, the effects originated by ceaseless ambition, all which implode and threaten the dominant groups, then we see steal spikes appearing that are in reality what they themselves have generated.

Suddenly, mystic symbols emerge, magical atmospheres and constellations: Rosicrucian’s, Mason’s signs, all knowledge and symbols of the Brotherhoods come universally from wise, from transcendental souls. But, this wisdom was not well used; power groups altered it in their benefit, submitting it to their own interests.

But, at the end we witness how Nature will rise up, how its strength is imposed, how it revolts and razes financial centers, leaving capitalist mafias in the darkness, and how Nature protests without limits because Earth doesn't resist the drunkenness of capitalism anymore.

It's time for a long recovery therapy..."

" Water has memory: "Mnemonics", a division of the primordial waters, “like so above so below”, so that the water below if it is pure reflects the above one.

Japanese Masaru Emoto PhD., author of the book "Messages from Water", confirmed that water carries messages according to the physical world environment surrounding it; when taking photographs to the molecular structures of water, he found what was said by Van der Waals; a liquid drop of water is equal to 6H2O, its molecular structure is hexagonal in two dimensions and an octahedron in three dimensions.

In other words, 6 H2O molecules are required to form a drop of water. When we freeze water to -5 degrees Centigrade, it crystallizes; it becomes a 6-pointed star or 6 oxygens at the vertices; in the interior 12 hydrogen bonds structuring Van der Waals hydrogen bridges forming a beautiful star.

Water dissolves solids creating 'fire' (micro bubbles), which rise to the atmosphere with the wind, to be dispersed into the ether.

The artist pays attention to the two elementals of water and fire: the undines (blue and green) and salamanders (red and yellow), which play an important role in harmonizing water, due to the fusion of its light or energy generating “Green Electric Light"; which can be used as therapy in different physiological and mental fields, what we call "Green Electric Fire Therapy". This powerful energy, originated inside pyramids, can contribute mostly to medicine and research. Through an extracellular and intracellular water interaction or "flushing," chronic fatigue syndrome disappears. The process occurs when extracellular water passes through cell membrane aquaporins, nurturing mitochondria the cell’s power producer, generating ATP (adenosine triphosphate) or units of energy that vitalize the body and provides much force that leaves the fatigue behind.

We feel the churning power of the oceans and seas, interconnected in an energetic therapy, building barriers to resist industry’s atrocities; generating a second dimension of existence, where universal cosmic energy gives birth to a centric universal nucleus after a projectile confluence, and then the great action of the “Summum Gold Birds” shows up.

In some videos, “WW” (water) gets liberated. By the effect of mnemonics, the recorded memory of water, golden birds are seen at the centre of the image, in its interior as wanting to fly out, shaking their wings. Does water have an aviarian memory instead of reptiloidian?, are these the new water elementals and not the undines anymore? It seems as if the metallic industry has impacted water to the extent of changing its DNA into a new element, a new entity created by man, far away from its nature, automatically and metallically to men’s service; since it is one of the most marketable products, one of the most circulated products, most deprived of its essence, its free waterways, its liberty, its purity. Metallic sounds, thundering at the videos background, reflect the industrial frequency and the intermittent insistence of money power groups to use, all of us and everyone of us, in benefit of their capitals and their never ending ambition.


Text by Lucia Vallarino Peet

"An explosion of new fountains irrigates old affected waters and a new cosmic galaxy emerge... We all confirm waters’ new energy is stronger than industry and its power is incommensurable. Water is the entity that has the last word..."

Maria Veronica Leon V

"I selected video as an ideal technique, since the images in movement allow me to show in a series, all the similar phases of 'black apocalypses' that different cultures are living in parallel dimensions at the same time; a technique that drives me to the maximal abstraction of high-tech industry irrupting in the spirit of water and the soul of human beings.

The sound of machines, hammering our psyches are the hammering of "King Money", that day to day demands to be prostrated at its feet. Video offers a perfect choreographic interplay between present and future realities generating a singular visual reading that symbolizes new codes of freedom in front of capitalistic disaster and destruction.

Surrealistic and symbolic visions illustrate water, present and future, spring from an imagined sense of a collective elevated consciousness with greater respect for water and to what it means to Humanity.

The Round Table of the Illuminati is devoured by black holes, only its shadow is left, dark mafias disappeared; the dimension of the dollar gets lost and enters the plane of memory.

"Black Holes Devouring Industrial Net"...

The shadow of darkness passes trough a futuristic perspective; darkness vanishes, the industrial machine as well, metallic stars lose their force and an enlightened human being arises...

Overlapping time, scenes in my work come up from a distant era to the present, towards a location in the future, that let us see the apocalyptic reality of contamination and obscurity the world has left behind. The round table of the Illuminati is devoured by black holes, only its shadow is left. Dark mafias got disappeared, they went away, the dimension of the dollar got lost and entered the plane of memory.

Tomorrow the currency will be water, air, health and survivorship and its new codes. Humanity rises; and the white lines and signs that we see are new drawings and representations of ancient cultures great wisdom, the one of our Masters, the one of Life in itself, taking us to a new collective consciousness that sustains the world in a post-contemporary awakening.

And Water recuperates its Blue Transcendence..."

María Verónica Leon Veintemilla

Toc toc toc tac tac tac; toc toc toc; tac tac tac; tic tac tic tac tic tac; tuc tuc tuc tuc tuc tupi tupi tupi tupi tupi tupi tupi tu! Aren't these common noises concentrated in the memory of our DNA?

The " toc toc toc tac tac tac " is the force of man at work, the hammering of carpenters and blacksmiths; the “tic tac tic tac tic tac” is the horrible picking and needling of time; the “tuc tuc tuc tuc tuc tupi tupi tupi tupi tupi tupi tupi tu” is the deafness noise of machines, including the computer.

But what is the difference? All are synonyms of work and exploitation, laboring, the submitting of human beings, the law of clocks, the dictatorship of industrial machinery; we have already lived all of this in multiple ways; today we don’t leave the keyboard, the hammering of lyrics, mails and images, we are "the techno-slaves".

Please let me hammer the future; to hammer the future with you; if we don’t start all over again we could disappear in a different dimension than the one we should be. Let me hammer the future, instead of following the same uniform practices of the system, let's me take the hammer with you again and again, with any technique, without saying anything, to live the greatness of our spirits.

Gold, another capitalist symbol, object of desire, economic index will turn into a promise of beauty through a revolutionary nexus of creativity. In "Golden Working Hands" we find the lines of the future, the lines of life, the lines of consciousness and destiny.

Following our own routes, -beyond work and labour force-, I propose a pause for the palms, for our hands, it’s time to claim our liberty, to breath and turn our back on dictates, dictums or codes. I wasn’t born to be part of the masses, but to mark the difference among them..."

Maria Veronica Leon Veintemilla

Maria Veronica highlights the dimension of gold through an extraordinary digital cosmography. The splendour of a rare collection of artworks bathed in light operates in space, with an identity adapted to an aesthetic of reversal and stimulates the visualization of authentic gold art in the next future.

"One of my goals is to open a new gap of creation with this metal, authentic or artificial to place it in an exclusive artistic context, with innovative ideas and aesthetic different applications. I launch some new ideas, so that gold may be elaborated in a new way within the territory from which it has been extracted, preserving it for the internal cultural and socio-economic development of the population, and stimulating the production, circulation and exportation of art made of gold, a positive revolution in the national and international market"

After a transcendental journey to Ecuadorian ancestor’s practices with gold, when they used special techniques like hammered and embossing to elaborate unusual figures and gold masks with original physiognomies, I thought strongly about the splendour of a rare collection of pieces bathed of light, operating in space with an identity adapted to an aesthetic of renewal, I signed my “contemporary location” with the elaboration of pieces of virtual or artificial gold to visualize the existence of authentic gold contemporary artworks in the next future.

Gold will have a new artistic value...

Illustrating at the end in an spiritual path, the essence of our existence in this Universe, our transcendence...

In the proposed work with art video, a new ritual with virtual gold will be seen and listened. An animistic communication with ancestors generates in me a state of trance, giving place to a sequence of predictions of the future. With hands circular movements inside a vase of virtual gold (acrylic in this case); voices and expressions bring forth, -in a way of a Babelic language-, a cosmic language without words, an universal and spiritual sung language, in which the ancestors transmit transcendental messages for a healthy future.

As a performer I use virtual gold for healing, covering body parts, like face and hands, whereby its absorption goes directly to the brain, and fosters a feeling of wellness. In all cultures we observe the practice of masking bodies and faces with different substances and colours, most pigments coming from earthly elements such as calcites, for instance, that produces a white tincture. One of the elements most abundant in the territory of Aequad’or was gold, and this is why our aborigines knew its qualities and uses.

In ancient civilizations the gold element was a source of life; in their cosmology the four brotherly elements: earth, air, water and sun (fire) were free of cost; gold on the other hand was also free of cost, children played with gold nuggets on roads and trails, the metal was used as ornamental; Inca bathed in gold dust rubbing it into wounds on his body, exposing himself to the sun to identify with it, and fusing with the golden astro to heal internally and externally.

But later, this metal became part of a chain of exploitation and ambitious business processes throughout a long traumatic history.

The relevance of this realistic structure lays in its universality, thus enabling the artist to create an original work that metaphorically evokes humanity in the process of forgetting itself.

"I loved this Ikea kitchen for its geometric signature and its cubic constructivist aura as well for the luminosity of the aluminum, it is a radiant support for an artistic installation. Talking about aluminum and cubes, I used my first cubes and aluminum plates for my work, during the 90’s at Quito Fine Arts University. When I was Dean’s Printing Assistant at that school, dry point was my favourite printing technique. I produced obsessively direct incisions of stiletto knife on aluminum plates (100 x 80 cm), as obsessive has always been the use of lines in my work, the 'infinite' succession of lines, 'endless lines', a notion of eternity..."

This time I wanted to recycle this personal practice on aluminium for a bigger surface that captures my work lines to express the state of compulsivity of the world. For this occasion, I want to turn around the kitchen, change its identity, the gender, not anymore the kitchen to the kitchen, nor the kitchen for the kitchen’s sake, but an Ikea kitchen scratched by me for the first time at la Biennale di Venezia, for the first National Independent Pavilion of Ecuador at the 56th International Art Exhibition.

A kitchen suffering a transgender surgery, another of today’s practices, “a transgender kitchen”...

This leading-edge kitchen is the receptor of new artistic dimensions that acts as the medium of a future dimensionality.

Maria Veronica in Dubai, U.A.E., where she works and lives.


María Verónica León Veintemilla is a pluri-disciplinary artist born in 1971 in Guayaquil, Ecuador. From 1998 to 2013 she lived and worked in Paris, where she became the first contemporary female artist from Ecuador in exhibiting in a museum in Paris, Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux Arts de Paris (2008), she was invited also for a solo exhibition at the Galliera Museum (2006) and selected by the Department of Cultural Affairs of Paris to be part of the “Nuit Blanche”(2004). She has been part of Havana Biennial (1997), the 52nd and 56th International Art Exhibition-La Biennale di Venezia (in 2007 at the Latinamerican Pavilion (IILA), and today as the official representative of Ecuador in its first Independant National Pavilion); Art Brussels (2012); Thetis (2010); Guanzhou International Art Fair (2008).

In 2014 she set up in Dubai where she works now and became the first artist from Latin America represented by a gallery from the Emirates, Cube Arts Gallery, D.I.F.C. Dubai (2014); her first solo show in this gallery was the first solo show of an artist from Latin America in the Emirates. As a multidisciplinary artist she works with a variety of techniques: drawing, painting, printmaking, video art, video installation, video-poetry, digital books, performance and photography. Her life and avant-garde work make her a leading figure in the international contemporary art scene.


From her early years María Verónica has shown her extraordinary talent in drawing, painting, portraiture and self-portraiture. She made portraits of prominent figures like Bjork, Isabelle Adjani, Pina Bausch, Dominique Mercy, Julie Stanzak, Helena Pikon, Placido Domingo, Bill Clinton and diverse Ecuadorian, Latin American and European personalities. In Ecuador she worked with “La Galeria” in Quito (1997) and Madeleine Hollaender in Guayaquil (1995-1997). In 1996Guayasamin invited her to colaborate with him in murals paintings for “La Capilla del Hombre” in Quito. She attended the School of Fine Arts, Central University in Quito, Painting and Printing specialization , where she was also Dean Assistant of Printing Department.

Maria Veronica in Dubai, U.A.E., where she works and lives today.


www.mariaveronicaworld.com

Maria Veronica Leon Veintemilla, Exhibitor Artist, representative of Ecuador at the 56 International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia.


María Verónica León Veintemilla is a pluri-disciplinary artist born in 1971 in Guayaquil, Ecuador. From 1998 to 2013 she lived and worked in Paris, where she became the first contemporary female artist from Ecuador in exhibiting in a museum in Paris, Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux Arts de Paris (2008), she was invited also for a solo exhibition at the Galliera Museum (2006) and selected by the Department of Cultural Affairs of Paris to be part of the “Nuit Blanche”(2004). She has been part of Havana Biennial (1997), the 52nd and 56th International Art Exhibition-La Biennale di Venezia (in 2007 at the Latinamerican Pavilion (IILA), and today as the official representative of Ecuador in its first Independant National Pavilion); Art Brussels (2012); Thetis (2010); Guanzhou International Art Fair (2008).

In 2014 she set up in Dubai where she works now and became the first artist from Latin America represented by a gallery from the Emirates, Cube Arts Gallery, D.I.F.C. Dubai (2014); her first solo show in this gallery was the first solo show of an artist from Latin America in the Emirates. As a multidisciplinary artist she works with a variety of techniques: drawing, painting, printmaking, video art, video installation, video-poetry, digital books, performance and photography. Her life and avant-garde work make her a leading figure in the international contemporary art scene.


From her early years María Verónica has shown her extraordinary talent in drawing, painting, portraiture and self-portraiture. She made portraits of prominent figures like Bjork, Isabelle Adjani, Pina Bausch, Dominique Mercy, Julie Stanzak, Helena Pikon, Placido Domingo, Bill Clinton and diverse Ecuadorian, Latin American and European personalities. In Ecuador she worked with “La Galeria” in Quito (1997) and Madeleine Hollaender in Guayaquil (1995-1997). In 1996Guayasamin invited her to colaborate with him in murals paintings for “La Capilla del Hombre” in Quito. She attended the School of Fine Arts, Central University in Quito, Painting and Printing specialization , where she was also Dean Assistant of Printing Department.

www.mariaveronicaworld.com

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