In the Studio: Ad Minoliti
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Artist Ad Minoliti lives and works in the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires. They are known for their vibrant, geometric designs and the colours in their artworks often leap from the canvas onto the walls and floors of the gallery space. Nature and the environment are an important part of their work and Ad surrounds themselves with wildlife, from growing plants to encourage butterflies and bees at their home, to helping to cultivate green spaces in Buenos Aires. Ad is creating an installation for Un Été au Havre, A Summer in Le Havre festival in northern France and wants their artwork to be enjoyed not only by people, but be beneficial for nature as well. The BBC's Andrea Kidd joins them in their studio as they design their piece called Hôtel des Oiseaux, a bird hotel that will be a welcoming space for the birds.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the documentary in the studio from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Andrea Kidd and today were with the Argentinian artist Adminoletti. |
| 0:16.0 | Ad is known for their vividly colourful geometric work, which they've exhibited around the world, |
| 0:19.0 | redefining the role of galleries |
| 0:21.0 | and people's relationship with the artworks. That's what I love |
| 0:24.4 | about geometrical abstraction that you have to interpretate and you have to |
| 0:29.5 | start playing a game with all the shapes and the colors. |
| 0:33.0 | Nature and the environment are also key elements, |
| 0:36.0 | and as well as highlighting the natural world in their artworks, |
| 0:40.0 | and is also passionate about growing plants to encourage butterflies and bees |
| 0:45.2 | and cultivating green areas in the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires. |
| 0:49.7 | So perhaps it's not surprising that I'm meeting them not at their studio, but instead at one of the saved green spaces in the city. |
| 0:59.0 | Ad, hi, lovely to meet you. |
| 1:00.0 | Hi, how are you? |
| 1:02.0 | I'm good, thank you. Why have you brought me here? Oh because |
| 1:06.2 | this place is very special for me. Like I start coming during the pandemic I |
| 1:11.6 | start to working with native plants and I wanted to show you what |
| 1:15.8 | we do for the spaces the green spaces here let's go this way. All the neighborhood come together to fight for the space to become a social |
| 1:27.7 | space with green, with plants, with football and games for kids. |
| 1:35.0 | And it's really nice to have a space where you can barely hear the traffic and all the noise from the street, no? |
| 1:42.0 | But you can come here, listen to the birds and relax. |
| 1:47.0 | What's through this gate here? |
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