Palm Springs: Mysterious metal mirrors, imported marble boulders piles and a 3D-affected earthen hut appeared in California Desert on Saturday, as the biennial outdoor art festival was returned to desert X.
Free phenomenon, which attracted 600,000 visitors in its final version, sends contemporary art-lovers on a treasure hunting to find some 100 miles (160 km) east in the east of Los Angeles.
French-American artist Sarah Mayohus used complex curved metal mirrors to reflect and refraction bright desert sunshine, which beams the words “truth slanting” on the sides of “Truth 400-Foot (120-meter) plaster ribbons”.
“The truth is definitely something that is at stake in today’s world,” he explained. “And I try to create an art that is not baffling anyone. It’s not a trick. It’s light. And this is true”.
Using the “caustic” technique, the way it is based on light “plays in the lower part of a swimming pool” to convert the sun beam into a lesson, work “a world in which we are politically divided,” he said. AFP,
‘here to stay’
At a distance of twenty miles in the desert, Mexican artist Jose Davila stacked a 16-ton marble boulder in the Chihuahua desert in the country around him.
The title of the work is “The Act of Being Tuger.”
Arrangements were made to invite Mangalithic structures like Stonhenge in Britain, with huge heaven marble lumps also talk to “current climates of events” that recently increased tariffs on the US-Maxican border.
Davila said, “Such rocks remind us that things are meant to live here, and these inconveniences come and go.”
Nevertheless, Desert X Artistic Director Neville Wakefield admitted that President Donald Trump’s tariff and Mexican mutual measures organized an art program a two -hour drive from the border “very complex.”
The show brings artists from all over the world to source and create several materials from Mexico to make artists from all over the world specific to the North American desert landscape.
Other establishments include Ronald Rail’s “Adobe Oasis”, which uses a huge robotic arm for 3D-print walls made of clay and straw in the field in the region.
Rail suggested that the ancient construction material, which is a fireproof, should be re -appointed in view of the fire of Los Angeles, killing 29 people in January.
“This is the oldest construction material of Mankind,” only “the introduction of a device, modified by a robot,” he said. AFP,
Recently the fire “burnt buildings that are made of plastic – toxic material – and people in LA still cannot drink their water,” Rail said.
Desert X lasts until 11 May.
