SMOKE OF FUTURE FIRES

Julie Tolentino

SMOKE OF FUTURE FIRES, 201320.32 x 20.32 x 20.32cmSign in to view price
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glass, artemesis vulgaris, charcoal, taxidermy, woodCommonwealth and Council
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Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This contemporary artwork features a minimalist glass display case elevated on a wooden pedestal. The composition emphasizes the interplay of simple geometric forms, with the clear glass box creating a visually striking contrast against the warm, textured wood. The glass enclosure contains a mysterious clouded object, inviting the viewer to ponder its significance. The artist's use of natural materials and clean lines reflects an aesthetic that combines utility and contemplation, hinting at deeper conceptual layers within this understated yet captivating sculptural piece. ...

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SMOKE OF FUTURE FIRES
Artist
Julie Tolentino
B.1964, Filipino/Salvadoran

Julie Tolentino is a multidisciplinary artist, activist, and scholar who uses various visual, archival, and movement techniques to craft performance installations. Her practice creates intimate and interdisciplinary environments for movement-based exploration, attending to the ordinary and the queer through activism, somatics, touch, and caregiving. These environments offer non-narrative and multi-sensory experiences through vignette-based serial works or durational projects that traverse internal and external landscapes. The physical actions of her interdisciplinary projects range from the hyper-ordinary to even the nearly invisible, exemplified in the performance installation Honey's "choreography of the throat" or her immersive one-to-one exchanges. Her pieces often invite live exchange and lingering, emphasizing the interdependence shared among fellow wanderers and the disenfranchised. By using time as a method of production and employing sticky materials, improvisation, and live action as threads, Tolentino seeks to open up shared spaces as a host, comrade, participant, and provocateur. In addition to her oeuvre of installation, site-based performance, and interdisciplinary works, Tolentino initiated numerous cultural events in New York City during the 1990s, including the Clit Club, Dagger, Tattooed Love Child, and Puta Scandalosa, as well as the NY Gay Games at Madison Square Garden. ...

Julie Tolentino: Artworks
SMOKE OF FUTURE FIRES
Julie Tolentino
SMOKE OF FUTURE FIRES, 2013
20.32 x 20.32 x 20.32cm
Archive in Dirt
Julie Tolentino
Archive in Dirt, 1978
22 x 18 x 20cm
Fire Island Pines Void
Julie Tolentino
Fire Island Pines Void, 2018
Commonwealth and Council
Gallery
Commonwealth and Council
Los Angeles, Mexico City

Commonwealth and Council is a gallery in Koreatown, Los Angeles founded in 2010. Our program is rooted in our commitment to explore how a community of artists can sustain our co-existence through generosity and hospitality. Commonwealth and Council celebrates our manifold identities and experiences through the shared dialogue of art—championing practices by women, queer, POC, and our ally artists to build counter-histories that reflect our individual and collective realities. ...

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