CONVERSATIONS Mousse 29
A Stitch in Time: David Medalla
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by Adam Nankervis
David Medalla is an artist of multifarious disciplines and polymorphic practices. Since the days of Signals he has been involved in many artistic activities including The Exploding Galaxy and Artists for Democracy, both of which he founded. I met David Medalla in 1991 at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City. Two years after we met, inspired by the life, ideas and art of Piet Mondrian, we co-founded The Mondrian Fan Club. We created and continue to create exhibitions and performances, and an on-going series of ephemeral art works, in different parts of the globe, which we call “Cosmic Graffiti”, such as the letter M written in smoke above the sky of Manhattan (1994), the letter A entwined with silk tulips at the Iguazo Falls in Brazil (2010), and most recently the letters H and D at the Hoover Dam in Nevada/Arizona, USA.
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Juan Pablo Macías