Mauricio Aristizabal

 

Mauricio Aristizabal. non sense information: the endless loop responds to
 Ste. Sebastienne: Hommage à Louise Bourgeois

The response to this bookwork focuses on the powerful image of the martyr St. Sebastien pierced by arrows that evoked an association with contemporary arms and projectiles or bullets for this artist. Inspired by a 3D printer model that prints itself, he explores the idea of perpetual nothingness in this work where he constructed a conveyor belt book consisting of copper plate “pages.”  His concern for using metal materials to make art rather than bullets is behind his work. Mauricio Aristizabal writes: “As an artist, and most important, as a human being, the dream is to be able to take all the metal out of the weaponry sector. Reality is that I only need 150 grams of metal to save a human life. Metal is the message, more of this material I use, less ends as weaponry.” 

Mauricio Aristizabal is currently enrolled as a Sculpture and Print Media minor student at Concordia University. He studied architecture, painting and drawing as well as graphic design in Colombia.

Video edited by Tod Van Dyk. Footage shot by Isabelle Fleurelien. 

Book photos taken by Isabelle Fleurelien, 2018. 

Text based on written and spoken interviews between curator Melinda Reinhart and Mauricio Aristizabal.