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ProjectArt in Golf 2018

Javier Olmeda

The greens of the golf courses, its lakes, hills, and landscape can make us forget that these spaces are creations of the human being. The industrial designer Javier Olmeda uses the mimetic aspect that characterizes the "court" of this game, to make us think about our relationship with nature. With its rows of fine mirrors, Reflection: Eternal, places us between the created and the natural spaces, allowing us to appreciate both images simultaneously while facing our own reflection: our responsibility to create a necessary balance.

ProjectArt in Golf 2018

John Kenneth Melvin

Californian artist John K. Melvin was impressed by Puerto Rico’s geography; being the smallest island of the Great Antilles, Puerto Rico has an impressive variety of landscapes, from clear water beaches, to caverns and dry forests regions, to mountains covered by rain forests. Inspired by this, the artist created a sculpture based on the abstraction of geographical elements that traps a man in its center. As mankind is a central piece of the changes the planet is suffering, the artist aims to make us ask ourselves our part in these changes.

ProjectArt in Golf 2018

Eduardo Cabrer

Golden Cubes is an artistic exploration of the mathematical concept known as the Golden Section. Some affirm that mathematics is the language of the universe, and indeed this numerical sequence is found in nature, as in the growth of flowers and fruits. However, artist Eduardo Cabrer uses this concept to create a structure based on colored cubes that do not resemble nature at all. On the contrary, Cabrer synthesizes the concept and thus problematizes the idea that all natural phenomena can be understood through science.

ProjectArt in Golf 2018

Sofía Maldonado

In Color Field, muralist Sofia Maldonado transforms golf carts using the elements of graffiti, bringing to the golf course a palette of vibrant colors that cannot be ignored. Through the contrast generated by this street language and “trap music” in the golf environment, the artist wallops the eye of the passerby to reclaim attention and provokes interest. In what, at first glance, might seem a fun piece, the artist invites us to interact through a QR Code to make us reflect on very serious issues such as the impact of consumerism on the environment.

ProjectArt in Nature

Carlos Mercado

In the Caribbean there were several pre-Columbian cultures and the work "Untitled" is a reinterpretation of this rich heritage. These ethnic groups did not develop an alphabet, but their petroglyphs are still found in special places, particularly in ceremonial centers similar to the one recreated in this work. In excavations prior to the construction of the Dorado Beach Resort remains of these ancestors of the Puerto Ricans were found , so the artist Carlos Mercado appropriated their graphic language, but using contemporary resources, to pay homage to the first artists of Dorado.

ProjectArt in Golf 2018

Nosotros

For the people of Bhutan, flags are related to the spiritual and natural worlds as signs of protection, peace, compassion and strength, among other meanings. In Dorado, the Pterocarpus Forest has been a place to reflect, to find peace and to conect with nature; it has also faced the furious cyclones, protecting part of Dorado Beach and losing many trees. This is why artist Zaida Goveo joined the Grupo Nosotros to pay homage to these silent heroes, using the wind that makes the flags flutter as a compositional element while intertwining all these meanings in one piece.

ProjectArt in Golf 2018

Raymond Cruz

Renacer Áureo is based on a mathematical equation to achieve a seemingly casual composition but which in reality has been very well calculated. Raymond Cruz uses bamboo to create a sculpture based on the Golden Section with an organic twist that communicates it with the vegetation. The sculptures large proportions are achieved with thin pillars that appear to be weak but are actually extremely resistant; the result is a kind of visual poem to the strength of nature that sometimes appears subtle and other times violent.

ProjectArt in Nature

Ivelisse Jiménez

In her practice, painter Ivelisse Jiménez has explored the limits of chromatism beyond painting and canvas, filling entire spaces with color without the need for a brush. The artist uses processed materials, such as fabrics, plastics and pastes, along with acrylic paintings to create bright compositions that surpass the limits of a frame. "Untitled" is her first intervention into the woods, and she used the forest itself as support for the work. As a result, the viewer goes through a kind of labyrinth of colors that provokes the experience of entering a kaleidoscope.

ProjectArt in Nature

Vientre Compartido

The Suárez brothers have made their career by addressing ecological issues through their art production. As nature one of their main inspirations, the hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico in 2017 affected their job. Mata Palo (Killer of trees) is a colloquial name given to the Cupey tree because of its aggressive growth that sometimes affect other species; but it also refers to the hurricanes that killed so many trees. In this sculpture, the artists make reference to nature’s way of being, literally lifting up new life from the fallen.

ProjectArt in Nature

Nosotros

In 2010, Eva Kullgren, a Swedish housewife, left Stockholm on a small sailboat, without electronic navigation instruments, like the ancient Vikings. She sailed through the Black Sea to the Mediterranean coasts and, upon reaching Cape Verde, she ventured into the immensity of the Atlantic Ocean. After 18 days she reached Brazil; but on her way back to the U.S.A., the sailboat suffered damages and the marine currents brought her to our shores of Dorado Beach. Those same currents brought us the tree from which this sculpture was created to honor our contemporary Viking Shipwreck.

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