Dirección: Jennifer Y. Chi & Pedro Azara, con Marc Marín
Coordinación: Jennifer Babcock
Conservadora: Angela Nacol
Montaje: Misha Leiner (CoDe) , con Pedro Azara y Marc Marín
Filmaciones: Marcel Borràs
Música: Joan Borrell
Catálogo editado por la Princeton University Press, 2015
Fotos: Tocho, ISAW, Nueva York, 9 de febrero de 2015
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TEXTOS ORIGINALES DE LA EXPOSICIÓN
Nota: Los textos definitivos son más breves
“An artist
whose eye had been educated by the Egyptian, the Sumerian and the Cycladic”
(David Sylvester on Alberto Giacometti, 1966)
"For me,
Sumerian sculpture ranks with Early Greek, Etruscan, Ancient Mexican, Fourth
and Twelfth Dynasty Egyptian and Romanesque and early Gothic sculpture, as the
great sculpture of the world. It shows a richness of feeling for life and its
wonder and mystery, welded to direct plastic statement born of real creative
urge.... [I]ts greatest achievement is found in the free-standing pieces ...
and these have tremendous power and yet sensitiveness.... See the alabaster
figure of a woman which is in the British Museum ... with her tiny hands
clasped in front of her. It is as though the head and the hands were the two
equal focal points of the figure--one cannot look at the head without being
conscious also of the held hands. But in almost all Sumerian works the hands
have a sensitiveness and significance; even in the very earliest terracotta
figures, where each hand seems no more than four scratches, there is a wealth
of meaning there." (Henry Moore, “Mesopotamian Art”, The Listener, 1935)
"From
3378 BC (date man´s 1st city, name and face of creator also known) in unbroken
series first at Uruk, then from the seaport Lagash out into colonies in the
Indus Valley and, circa 2500, the Nile, until date 1200 BC or thereabouts,
civilization has ONE CENTER, Sumer, in all directions, that this one people
held such exact and superior force that all peoples around them were sustained
by it, nourished, increased, advanced, that a city was a coherence which, for
the first time since the ice, gave man the chance to join knowledge to culture
and, with this weapon, shape dignities of economics and value sufficient to
make daily life itself a dignity and a sufficiency."
(Charles Olson, "The Gate and the Center", Human Universe)
(Charles Olson, "The Gate and the Center", Human Universe)
“The
eye, in […] Sumerian fixes (jesus, in
these glyphs, how, or stones, how, with any kind of device, the eye takes up
life (contra Greek, Rome, even, Byzantine)” (Charles Olson, Selected Writings).
