Colmena

Category: Exhibition
Year: 2010
Institution: Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation, Palma
Comment: "Colmena" is a site-specific installation created by Martina Höfflin and Pascal Glissman, winners of the Pilar Juncosa and Sotherby's Award.About 100 analog creatures in hand-crocheted nests out of wire settled in trees of the mediterranean park up on the hills of Palma. As soon as the sun rises they start moving and cheeping, depending on how the sun falls into their solar cells. Visitors of the park are invited to discover, observe and wonder about these uncommon habitants which live autarkic in the trees. Through chaotic and unpredictable sounds and movements the creatures seem alive and fit perfectly into the surrounding natural environment.The installation shows parallels to Miro‘s work in using a geometrical form which on the same time appears very organic. Like Miro‘s forms occupy the canvas, these small beings inhabit the nature around Miro‘s ateliers and workshops. Miro imagined that his sculptures have souls and get alive during night to walk around, he wanted sculptures to merge with nature. The installation colmena takes these thoughts and realizes them by exposing the electronic creatures out in nature for at least one summer. No matter what wind, rain, saltwater, desert sand and animals will do to the artwork.