{"id":36586,"date":"2020-08-14T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=36586"},"modified":"2020-08-14T07:37:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T14:37:12","slug":"nacho-carbonell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/14\/nacho-carbonell\/","title":{"rendered":"nacho carbonell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/14\/nacho-carbonell\/nacho_carbonell2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36589\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36589\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/nacho_carbonell2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"5114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/nacho_carbonell2.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/nacho_carbonell2-117x1024.jpg 117w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Sigh.<\/em> Venice 2019&#8230; that feels like a zillion years ago. This breathtaking sculptural light installation is the work of Netherlands based, Spanish artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nachocarbonell.com\/\">Nacho Carbonell<\/a>. <em>&#8220;Inside a Forest Cloud&#8221;<\/em> is the title of the large chandelier, and yes, that&#8217;s exactly where I&#8217;d like to be right now&#8230; inside a forest cloud. The grouping as a whole is titled <em>&#8220;Monumental&#8221;<\/em> and was part of one of my favorite shows in Venice last summer,\u00a0<em>&#8220;Dysfunctional&#8221;<\/em> at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/galleriagiorgiofranchetti\/?hl=en\">Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca&#8217; d&#8217;Oro<\/a>. Here are Nacho&#8217;s words about why he does what he does:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI like to see objects as living organisms, imagining them coming alive and being able to surprise you with their behaviour. I want to create objects with my hands, then I can give them my personality. I turn them into communicative objects that can arouse one\u2019s sensations and imagination. In short, what I want to create are objects with a fictional or fantasy element, that allow you to escape everyday life.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes. YES. Escaping everyday life sounds fantastic right now. Happy Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh. Venice 2019&#8230; that feels like a zillion years ago. This breathtaking sculptural light installation is the work of Netherlands based, Spanish artist Nacho Carbonell. &#8220;Inside a Forest Cloud&#8221; is the title of the large chandelier, and yes, that&#8217;s exactly where I&#8217;d like to be right now&#8230; inside a forest cloud. The grouping as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,169,12],"tags":[933,412,827],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36586"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36592,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36586\/revisions\/36592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}