Oolite Arts GalleryOct. 16 – Dec. 15, 2019 On The Road ll is an exhibition series curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah highlighting the works of artists he encounters while traveling around the globe. The exhibition is loosely inspired by Jack Kerouac’s 1957 Beat Generation novel On the Road, which explores the travels of…
It is common today to find in Havana areas plastic patio chairs corrected by their users; I am referring to the chairs known as monobloc. We know in Cuba and all over the world that these chairs will break. Its structural rigidity has been sacrificed for its production cost, stackability,…
Inscribing: meditations on time and space Bridge Red Studios/Project Space Curated by William Cordova September 13 – November 1 A project focusing on the evidence or our human presence through photography, painting, drawing and sculpture. Our gestures, stories, recorded moments, building abstract narratives that include geometry, text, the figure and textiles. -william cordova…
The Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science and the Ryder Charitable Foundation are excited and proud to host a new two-day festival, NEXT: From Nano to Macro, Innovation at Every Scale. At NEXT, science and techie fans of all ages can learn about how technology is rapidly adapting to accommodate society’s…
Antenas vernáculas concebidas para decodificar y “robar” la señal de la emisora estatal de radio “para Centros de Gastronomía y Comercio de Ciudad de la Habana”. Los creadores de estas antenas las ocultaban en cajas pequeñas de plástico y mas comúnmente en el interior de autos de juguete. Esa es…
La fusión de gasolina y espuma de poliestireno (poliespuma) se ha usado en Cuba por muchos años. El combustible consume cada molécula de oxigeno derritiendo el plástico hasta convertirlo en una masa grisácea que toma diversas contexturas en relación a la proporción. La voracidad de la gasolina en el proceso…
Flash Théorie : “Autoproduction” http://esad-reims.fr/blog/category/2.html Mardi 12 mars 2013, de 9h30 à 13h – Médiathèque Falala, Reims • L’ESAD reprend le fil conducteur de sa recherche en Design : l’autoproduction. Avec une affiche d’invités particulièrement prestigieuse et internationale. Qu’est-ce que l’Auto-production ? Mettant en cause des modèles de développement, de consommation et…
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Desobediencia Tecnológica. De la revolución al revolico. Ernesto Oroza Revolución “¡Obrero construye tu maquinaria!” fue la invitación que Ernesto Guevara –Ministro de Industrias (1961-1966)– lanzó a los participantes de la Primera Reunión Nacional de Producción en agosto de 1961. Este evento fue el primer impulso ideológico al movimiento nacional de innovadores e…
Documentos contaminados (1999) _english below Me interesan los documentos corrompidos, impuros, emponzoñados por la naturaleza y esencialidad del objeto que investigan. Uno de mis primeros archivos infestados data de 1999. Ocurrió durante un viaje de un mes por la isla en compañía de Penélope de Bozzi. Realizábamos una extensiva documentación…
Crystal Radio (Radio a Galena), 2011. Ernesto Oroza, Gean Moreno. “Radio a galena” is an rudimentary crystal radio that function without a conventional power source. They are housed inside milk crate casings which are then stacked in towers. Early versions of the modern radio as we’ve come to know it, Crystal…
220°C Virus Monobloc The Infamous Chair Editors: Arnd Friedrichs, Kerstin Finger Texts by Hajo Eickhoff, Max Küng, Andrej Kupetz, and Alice Rawsthorn Language: English Publisher: Die Gestalten Verlag (September 1, 2010) Release: September 2010 Available Soon! Price: € 29,90 / $ 45,00 / £ 27,50 Format: 17 × 24 cm…
Jeudi 20 mai, espace Viénot 2, à 18h30 Ernesto Oroza, designer cubain, RIKIMBILI est sa dernière publication. Thursday 20 May Viénot 2, 6:30PM at ENSCI, Paris. ADDRESS: 48 rue Saint Sabin, FR-75011 Paris, France Phone +33 1 4923 1230, Fax +33 1 4923 1203 Website http://www.ensci.com/
Tiles, 2010. Customized vinyl adhesives tiles. Vinyl tiles (12in by 12in) and graffiti. Exhibited: Improvising Architecture IFAE MIA, Miami, U.S. Declaracion: Este proyecto se auto declara temporal. Entiende que en el paisaje infinito de lo genérico los gestos vernáculos se disuelven, ruedan minúsculos hasta desaparecer, como los huesos de opossum…
Studio Scrap stools and Provisional bench at Once Upon a Chair. Design Beyond the Icon. Once Upon a Chair. Design Beyond the Icon GESTALTEN Editors: R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, A. Kupetz, S. Moreno Language: English Release: September 2009 Format: 22,7 x 28,1 cm Features: 272 pages, full colour, hardcover ISBN: 978-3-89955-256-0 Once Upon a…
Updating City (theorem). 2000-2010 Founded metal bars chairs, monobloc plastic chairs, metal bars. Objects of necessity In certain contemporary urban areas the necessity generates objects that look more the result of an unavoidable sedimentation of materials cornered by the wind into the shapes of the city than the result of…
Jarro (Envase de detergente Jovel) Santiago de Cuba 1999, Habana 1999
Rent Electricity Gas at 380 NW 24th Street On behalf of Terri and Donna, Miami based curator Agatha Wara has set up a curious space called RENT ELECTRICITY GAS (a title borrowed from a Martin Kippenberger artwork). Featuring artworks in the form of seats and benches by Jim Drain, Nick Lobo, Ernesto…
Little Havana Lamp shade. 2008-2009 Clear silicone. In 1994, in a factory in Los Pinos neighborhood in Havana, after a black-out, a Japanese machine used to produce medical instruments in acrylic got clogged with the hot, melted material inside. The factory’s chief of production quickly ordered all the acrylic, still in…
Centro de información. Archivo y arquitectura en proceso. 2009 T-shirts impresos, provenientes de tiendas de segunda mano, se utilizan para fabricar cojines de 16”x16”. Esta tipología de archivo permite que la documentación devenga su propia arquitectura. Las dos primeras ediciones de estos cojines fueron desarrolladas en colaboración con Gean Moreno: –…
RIKIMBILI. Une étude sur la désobéissance technologique et quelques formes de réinvention. 2009 Ernesto Oroza (Préfacier) Marie-Haude Caraës Traducteur: Nicole Marchand-Zanartu 67 p. format : 165 x 215 ISBN : 978-2-86272-527-7 Publications de l’Université de Saint-Étienne, 2009 Cité du design BUY “Quand nous acceptons le critère bourgeois qui sanctionne la nécessité…
Updating City (theorem). 2009 Founded metal bars chairs and monobloc plastic chairs, tube.
STUDIO SCRAP STOOL at Designboom More info here
Little Havana Lamp shade. 2008 Milkcrate, cut.
GISH-artEcodesign/ Gli oggetti della necessità by Ernesto Oroza. Curator: Allesandra Dini
Updating City (theorem). Miami, 2008. Founded metal bars chairs and monobloc plastic chairs.
Studio Scrap Stools. Gean Moreno & Ernesto Oroza. 2008 Studio Scrap Stools are no-top no-bottom stools built out of scrap 2” x 4” studs that have collected in the studio. A zero-point edge is determined for each and the scraps are glue together at whatever lengths they already have. The pattern…
Sermon Sunday September 30, 2007 “OBJECTS OF NECESSITY!” The Reverend Dr. E. Neil Hunt The United Church of Marco Island
Paperweights (Architecture or Revolution. The revolution can be avoided), 2007. Cast cement.
Little Havana Lamp shade. 2007 Scotch tape
Provisional bench. Aventura, 2007. Metal bar chairs, wood and Formica.
78 versions of Harry Bertoia’s chair Model No. 420C, found in Aguacate, Cuba. Oct/2006.
Provisional chair at Espacio Provisional, Havana, 2005. Founded metal bar chairs, monobloc plastic chairs and clothes.
Stools at Ludwig Foundation. 2005 (with Pol Chaviano) Collected doilies, cardboard and paint.
Rikimbili. Bicycle + gasoline pump water, fumigation devices or gasoline engines chain saw.
Razor machine. Statement of Necessity. 2004 Silkscreen, 70cm x 50cm, Edition of 50.
NO WASTE 2003 Pentagram Papers 32. Pentagram Design, London, 2002. A project by Ernesto Oroza and Laboratorio de Creación Maldeojo with design by Fernando Gutiérrez and an introduction by Alex Marashian. This 2003 edition by the international agency Pentagram Design contains pictures of vernacular objects created as a result of economic…
Joya provisional – provisional jewelry (charms). 1998-2003 Metal strainer and threads.
Joya provisional – provisional jewelry (charms). 2003 Redesign. Glass dropper, threads.
TV Aerial, Havana, 2003
Objets réinventés: La création populaire à Cuba. 2002 Ernesto Oroza & Penélope de Bozzi ISBN-10: 2862273198 ISBN-13: 978-2862273198 Paperback Publisher: Alternative (March 21, 2002) Oroza’s book, Objets réinventés: La création populaire à Cuba (Reinvented Objects: The People’s Creation in Cuba) encompasses eight years of research on the island’s material culture.…
Provisional bench. 1991 Founded metal bar chairs and reclaimed wood.
Provisional canape (2/red). Corcoran Projects. 2000 Founded metal bars chairs and broken monoblok plastic chairs, paint.
Provisional canape (5/white). Corcoran projects. 2000 Founded metal bars chairs and monobloc plastic chairs, metal bars.
Provisional sofa, 1996