Quins - Nju Jork u zhvillua Festivali i Skulpturave prej rëre

 
Në Quins - Nju Jork u zhvillua Festivali i Skulpturave prej  rëre







BEQIR SINA, Queens NY



 
 
Më shumë se 100 “artistë të rërës” nga e gjithë New Yorku, mes  tyre edhe 
fëmijë, morën pjesë në këtë festival amatorë të organizuar në plazhin  e 
Rockaway Beach në Queens, të premten , në New York. 
 
 
 
QUEENS - NEW YORK : Në një nga plazhet më të populluara në  New York - 
Queens, u zhvillua festivali i skulpturave në rërë. Skulptorë  emigrantë 
(amatorë e profesionist) dhe amerikanë nga e gjithë bota, u mblodhën  në njërin 
prej plazheve më të populluara në New Yorkut, për të aplikuar këtë  artë të 
bukur, mjaft i përhapur edhe në botë .

 
 
 
Disa prej tyre u prezantuan me objekete të kultit, apo imigjinata të  
kështjellave spektakolare, portrete njerëzish dhe objekete imagjinare të artit  
abstraktivë . Më shumë se 100 “artistë të rërës” nga e gjithë New  Yorku mes 
tyre edhe fëmijë, morën pjesë në këtë festival amatorë të organizuar  në 
plazhin e Rockaway Beach në Queens, të premten , në New York. 

 
 
 
Sipas organizatorit të këtij festivali u tha se artistë profesionist dhe  
amatorë u mblodhën së bashku në këtë festival për të krijuar strukturat e  
mahnitshme, nëpërmjet sulpturave kështjella apo personazhe legjendash, si dhe 
më  së shumti dalloheshin personazhet e dashur të Disnejit, të cilat mbeten 
gjatë në  plazh në një nga pjesët më të frekuentuara të këtij plazhi rërë. 

 
 
 
Festivali, i cili u mbajtë brenda ditës dhe kishte si tematikë sidomos për  
fëmijët përrallat, imagjinata të ndodnjë kështjelle mitologjike , fragmente 
të  ndryshme historie sjellur nëpërmjet këtij arti nga vendet e tyre që 
mundohen për  të treguara nga artistët se nga kan ardhur, si dhe shumë 
personazhe të preferuar  të librave komikë të autorve nga më të njohur botëror, dhe 
shumë tregime të  tjera të famshme nga bota e miteve dhe legjendave të 
vjetra, të artistëve  emigrantë në Shtetet e Bashkuara.


 
 
 
Çmimi  i Medalies së Arit iu dha fituesve Jennifer Catron dhe Paul Outlaw, 
partnerët  artistike dhe romantikë puna e të cilëve shpesh është interaktive 
me mbështetje  të komunitetit dhe me shumë argëtim. 

Pas  gjithë këtij turneu ditor u përzgjodhën dhe 13 vepra më të mira. 
Gjyqtarët mbas  një shqyrtimi ishin të gatshëm në dhëjen e çmimeve Award - Të 
cilat përfshinin  çmimin e Lopata e Artë, Argjendit, Bronzi,së bashku me 
çertifikata  inkurajuese.
 
 
 


Creative Hubris, as Ephemeral as Sea Foam  
    

Built in a day: The artist Marie Lorenz,  in toga, made a model of the 
Roman Colosseum for her entry in the Creative Time  sand castle competition on 
Rockaway Beach, Queens, on Friday. _More  Photos »_ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/08/20/arts/design/20120820SANDCASTLE.html) 

 
  
In the annals of things that have turned up on the  shore in Rockaway Beach 
in Queens, haircuts and bowling are probably not  unheard-of. But rarely 
are they as artistically minded as what Dustin Yellin  prepared. 
 


 
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_Slide Show _ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/08/20/arts/design/20120820SANDCASTLE.html?ref=design) 



 
With a few helpers Mr. Yellin, _a  Brooklyn artist_ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/nyregion/the-artist-dustin-yellins-big-big-plans-for-red-hook.htm
l) , dug adjoining trenches on a stretch of sand on Friday  afternoon at 
Beach 86th Street. In one, decorated with an assortment of fashiony  images, a 
guy with a shaggy hairdo snipped willing participants: beachfront  beauty 
salon. In the next trench kids rolled a ball at a half-dozen two-liter  soda 
bottles, painted white to resemble pins. “Bowl cuts,” a sign announced  
jauntily. The wink was implied.  
Along with more than a dozen other swimsuit-clad  artists, Mr. Yellin was 
selected to participate in the inaugural sand castle  building contest 
organized by _Creative Time_ (http://creativetime.org/) , the public arts 
organization.  For several hours, as a crowd grew on the Boardwalk, the artists dug 
and piled  and smoothed, making pieces from conceptual to representative and 
building  mostly with sand and water. It wasn’t quite the Biennale, but 
this showdown did  have some bragging rights. Prizes were awarded after the 
three-hour competition,  and there was the judgment of beachgoers. (“Should we 
bet on this?” one man  asked his friends.)  
The contest first came to Creative Time as an idea for  _Art  Basel Miami 
Beach_ 
(http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/a/art_basel_miami_beach/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) . But then, said Anne 
Pasternak, the president and artistic  director of Creative Time, the 
organization realized that sand and surf were  equally accessible in the Rockaways, 
where a sand-castle competition seemed like  a no-brainer. “I thought, ‘Why 
hasn’t anybody done this already?’ ” she said,  standing on the Boardwalk 
afterward. David Selig, an owner of Rockaway Taco,  helped secure permits for 
the contest and the burger joint Rippers for an  after-party, and Creative 
Time put the call out to artists, who were so eager to  participate that Ms. 
Pasternak thought it might become an annual event.  
“We like to poke fun at ourselves, and this is about  as ephemeral as art 
can be,” she said, looking out over the sculptures, which  were to be stomped 
or filled in by nightfall.  
But many of the artists took the task seriously.  William Lamson, _whose 
work often  involves the environment_ 
(http://lightlandscape.stormking.org/artist/lamson2.html) , spent a week refining his design, which was  inspired by 
a gravel cylinder he saw in a Japanese temple. His towering cone of  sand 
came out perfectly, and for good reason: He did a trial run on the beach a  
few days before. When that five-foot template collapsed, Mr. Lamson, in a 
panic,  called for expert advice.  
“I just Googled ‘sand castle makers,’ ” he said. The  pros he contacted 
were a bit confused by his project. “They make, like, Jeeps,”  Mr. Lamson 
said. “They do _stuff in malls_ (http://www.teamsandtastic.com/) .” But their 
advice, to  use more water, held.  
On competition day there were close calls but _no  major meltdowns_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=NqgWXYx8MpI) , as a bare-chested 
man with a red visor and a megaphone, a  swipe of sunscreen on his nose, 
provided color commentary.  
“Dear God, what do I see before me?” he said as he  strolled the roped-off 
competition area. “The Colosseum, with strange Devo hats  surrounding it.” 
The artist at work, Marie Lorenz, cracked up. She was inspired  by the 
Roman Colosseum, she said, because it seemed safer to start with a ruin.  She 
and her friends wore togas for the judging.  
A few feet away members of the art-architecture group  _Snarkitecture_ (http
://www.snarkitecture.com/)  followed a printed  schematic as they built a 
giant pile of sand — the biggest pile, they hoped —  and carefully inserted 
clear plastic tubes through it. Their aim was to be able  to see through the 
sand. It worked, or at least it was fun to try.  
Kenya Robinson dug a pit and plopped herself and two  friends in it, where 
they painstakingly wove strings around themselves, a beach  game of cat’s 
cradle. Ms. Robinson explained that the piece was called “Female  Prostate.”  
“I like holes and string,” she said.  
“Who doesn’t?” the color commentator replied. He was  Nato Thompson, chief 
curator of Creative Time. As a narrator he had the timing  and vocabulary 
of an art-world Zach Galifianakis. “Who is this squat, enigmatic  figure in 
front of me, whose face looks like a” bottom? he said, peering at an  
Aztec-ish sculpture by Laura Wasserson and Amit Greenberg. “Um. Good job? It’s  
moving along.”  
Nearby some kids did their own digging, inspired by  Tom Sachs’s 
installation: a deep pit beneath a hand-painted sign that read  “China,” with an 
arrow pointing down. But they were also minicritics: they  summarily suggested 
that _Mr. Sachs_ (http://www.tomsachs.org/) , _the  hardware-loving artist_ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/arts/design/tom-sachs-prepares-for-liftoff-
at-park-avenue-armory.html) , was cheating by using a pump to vacuum water 
out of  his pit.  
Mr. Sachs scoffed at this notion. “What do you mean,  ‘fair’?” he asked, 
as he fiddled with an attachment for his hose. “It wasn’t a  rule. Why you 
got to be like that?”  
There were no rules, and no criteria for determining  winners, although 
whimsy, technique and public response all played a part. Ryan  McNamara was 
judged first, because his installation — in which two people were  immobilized 
by wooden boards and pounds of sand — seemed to be rapidly  endangering the 
health of his volunteers.  
“Would you like to say anything about the piece?” Mr.  Thompson asked.  
“That I have really amazing friends,” Mr. McNamara  replied.  
After touring the 13 works and deliberating under a  tent, the judges were 
ready to award prizes — bronze-, silver- and gold-colored  shovels, along 
with celebratory bottles of tequila. (The judges, representatives  of Creative 
Time and their friends, like the artist _Duke  Riley_ 
(http://www.dukeriley.info/) , had spent the afternoon carrying red canteens that read, ‘Save 
Water  — Drink Beer,’ and it’s safe to say they did their part in the 
conservation  effort.)  
Third place went to _Jen DeNike_ (http://www.thecompanyart.com/pages/jen-de
nike/) , for a  realistic sculpture of a reclining woman, her hand 
outstretched to touch an  elegant sand castle; Ms. DeNike explained that it had come 
to her in a dream.  Mr. Lamson took second place for his cone sculpture and 
said he could imagine  building it again, though in a different medium.  
And the gold-prize winners were Jennifer Catron and  Paul Outlaw, artistic 
and romantic partners whose work is often interactive and  concerned with 
_community,  sustenance and fun_ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/18/dining/18truck.html) . Their piece was a living, multitiered water fountain. A  few 
friends were partially buried at its base; in red-white-and-blue swimsuits  
and bathing caps, they and the couple, perched on platforms with jugs of water 
 and straws, took turns spurting and spitting — on one another, on 
passers-by and  on the judges.  
“You don’t want to make a serious sand sculpture,” Ms.  Catron said at the 
after-party.  
But the couple did make an effort. They practiced  spitting at each other 
at home.  
“Which is how we knew to bring swim caps,” Mr. Outlaw  said.