David Cortez Medalla (23 March 1942 – 28 December 2020) was a
Filipino
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international artist and political activist. His work ranged from
sculpture
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and
kinetic art to painting,
installation
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* Installation (computer programs)
* Installation, work of installation art
* Installation, military base
* Installation, into an office, especially a religious (Installation (Christianity) Installation is a Christian l ...
, and
performance art
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.
Early life
David Cortez Medalla, Jr. was born in
Manila
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,
Philippines
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to David Medalla, Sr. and Juanita Angkay Cortez, both originally from
Cebu
Cebu (; ceb, Sugbo), officially the Province of Cebu ( ceb, Lalawigan sa Sugbo; tl, Lalawigan ng Cebu; hil, Kapuroan sang Sugbo), is a province of the Philippines located in the Central Visayas region, and consists of a main island and 167 ...
. He was the second of five children, including an older half-sister. During
World War II
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, the family evacuated Manila to the Sta. Ana Cabaret on the periphery of the city. The Medalla house was destroyed in the
Battle of Manila. After liberation, Medalla, Sr. built a new family home on Mabini St. in the
Ermita
Ermita is a district in Manila, Philippines. Located at the central part of the city, the district is a significant center of finance, education, culture, and commerce. Ermita serves as the civic center of the city, bearing the seat of city g ...
district of Manila.
Education
Early education
Medalla attended kindergarten at
Sta. Isabel College before transferring to Ermita Catholic School. He would transfer once more, this time to the
Philippine Normal School
The Philippine Normal University (PNU; fil, Pamantasang Normal ng Pilipinas) is a public coeducational teacher education and research university in the Philippines. It was established in 1901 through Act No. 74 of the Philippine Commission '' ...
, where he would graduate elementary in 1949. Afterwards, Medalla attended his first year of high school at the
University of the Philippines
The University of the Philippines (UP; fil, Pamantasan ng Pilipinas Unibersidad ng Pilipinas) is a state university system in the Philippines. It is the country's national university, as mandated by Republic Act No. 9500 (UP Charter of 200 ...
, first on Padre Faura St. and then at the
Diliman campus.
At the beginning of his second year of high school, Medalla's whereabouts were unknown for three weeks. When he eventually turned up back home, his family learned that he had snuck aboard the ''
SS President Wilson
SS ''President Wilson'' was an American passenger ship originally ordered by the Maritime Commission (MC hull 687) during World War II, as one of the ''Admiral W. S. Benson''-class Type P2-SE2-R1 transport ships, and intended to be named USS ''Ad ...
'', fallen asleep, and was discovered by its crew only after it had set sail for
Hong Kong
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. The story was featured in the local news. Afterwards, Bessie Hackett, an American columnist with the ''
Manila Bulletin
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'', met with Medalla and his parents to discuss the education opportunity for him to attend the Episcopalian high school of St. Mary's in
Sagada
Sagada, officially the Municipality of Sagada is a 5th class municipality in the province of Mountain Province, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 11,510 people.
Sagada is from Bontoc, the provincial capital, ...
, high in the
Cordillera Mountains. He attended the school for one year. In 1952, his parents sent him to Cebu to attend the high school of the
University of San Carlos
The University of San Carlos, also referred to by its acronym USC or colloquially shortened to San Carlos, is a private, Catholic, research, coeducational basic and higher education institution administered by the Philippine Southern Province ...
. He would attend the school for two days before quitting without telling his parents for several months.
Poetry beginnings
Medalla began writing poetry in 1953. He brought his poems to magazine and newspaper editors and was soon published on the front pages of ''The Campus Journal'' and ''The Philippine Collegian''. Medalla requested that his author image be printed upside down, but the request was rejected. The next year, poet and journalist Francisco Arcellana, upon the recommendation of playwright
Wilfredo Ma. Guerrero, both of whom were professors at the University of the Philippines, interviewed Medalla and wrote about him in the ''Saturday Morning Magazine''. The article, published in 1954, was entitled "A Boy with Feelings for Words." Medalla spent this time "meandering from one newspaper office to another."
Further education
In 1954, the University of the Philippines invited Medalla to lecture. He met the president of the university, Vidal Tan, who evaluated Medalla's "mental abilities as approaching genius." Despite lacking a high school diploma, Tan allowed Medalla to enroll in the university's College of Liberal Arts. Soon after, Medalla was recommended by Tan to the
George Jonas Foundation for their gifted writers program
Camp Rising Sun. The international, full-scholarship program accepted Medalla. After receiving a travel grant from the Commission for Free Asia, Medalla left for New York on July 7 of the same year.
After the program finished, Medalla stayed in New York and met
Mark Van Doren
Mark Van Doren (June 13, 1894 – December 10, 1972) was an American poet, writer and critic. He was a scholar and a professor of English at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, where he inspired a generation of influential writers and thin ...
, then a faculty member at
Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
. Van Doren recommended Medalla's admission as a special student to Columbia in September 1954. Medalla attended a philosophy class under John Randall, a modern drama class under
Eric Bentley
Eric Russell Bentley (September 14, 1916 – August 5, 2020) was a British-born American theater critic, playwright, singer, editor, and translator. In 1998, he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. He was also a member of the New ...
, a literature class under
Lionel Trilling
Lionel Mordecai Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, short story writer, essayist, and teacher. He was one of the leading U.S. critics of the 20th century who analyzed the contemporary cultural, social, ...
, a Greek drama class under
Moses Hadas Moses Hadas (June 25, 1900, Atlanta, Georgia – August 17, 1966) was an American teacher, a classical scholar, and a translator of numerous works from Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and German.
Life
Raised in Atlanta in a Yiddish-speaking Orthodox Je ...
, and a poetry workshop under
Léonie Adams
Léonie Fuller Adams (December 9, 1899 – June 27, 1988) was an American poet. She was appointed the seventh Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1948.
Biography
Adams was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in a ...
. During his time in New York, Medalla became acquainted with New York-based Filipino artists, including poet
José García Villa
José García Villa (August 5, 1908 – February 7, 1997) was a Filipino poet, literary critic, short story writer, and painter. He was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973, as well as the Guggenheim Fello ...
and painter
Alfonso Ossorio
Alfonso Angel Yangco Ossorio (August 2, 1916 – December 5, 1990) was a Filipino American Abstract expressionism, abstract expressionist artist who was born in Manila in 1916 to wealthy Filipino parents from the province of Negros Occidental. H ...
. After returning to Manila, Medalla attended art lectures under
Fernando Zóbel de Ayala.
Career
On returning to Manila in March 1955, Medalla transformed his family home in Ermita into an art studio and salon that he called ''La Cave d'Angley''. There he painted, taught, and hosted intellectual social gatherings. Visitors to ''La Cave d'Angley'' included the Catalan poet
Jamie Gil de Biedma who was then working for
Campañía General de Tabacos de Filipinas.
During the 1960s in Paris, the French philosopher
Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard (; ; 27 June 1884 – 16 October 1962) was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter, he introduced the concepts of ''epistemological obstacle'' and '' epi ...
introduced Medalla's performance of ''Brother of Isidora'' at the academy of
Raymond Duncan. Later,
Louis Aragon
Louis Aragon (, , 3 October 1897 – 24 December 1982) was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with André Breton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review ''Littérature''. He wa ...
would introduce another performance, and
Marcel Duchamp
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (, , ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso ...
honoured him with a "medallic" object.
His work was included in
Harald Szeemann ''
Harald Szeemann (11 June 1933 – 18 February 2005) was a Swiss curator, artist, and art historian. Having curated more than 200 exhibitions, many of which have been characterized as groundbreaking, Szeemann is said to have helped redefine the r ...
's exhibition 'Weiss auf Weiss' (1966), 'Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form' (1969), and in the
documenta 5
documenta 5 was the fifth edition of documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition. It was held between 30 June and 8 October 1972 in Kassel, West Germany. The artistic director was Harald Szeemann ''
Harald Szeemann (11 June 1933 – 18 ...
exhibition in 1972 in
Kassel, Germany
Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020. ...
.
During the early 1960s Medalla moved to the United Kingdom and in 1964 co-founded the
Signals London gallery, which presented international kinetic art. He was editor of the Signals news bulletin from 1964 to 1966. In 1967 he initiated the
Exploding Galaxy, an international confluence of multi-media artists, significant in hippie/counterculture circles, particularly the
UFO Club
The UFO Club ( ') was a short-lived British counter-culture nightclub in London in the 1960s. The club was established by Joe Boyd and John "Hoppy" Hopkins. It featured light shows, poetry readings, well-known rock acts such as Jimi Hendrix, ...
and
Arts Lab
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. From 1974 to 1977 he was chairman of
Artists for Democracy, an organisation dedicated to 'giving material and cultural support to liberation movements worldwide' and director of the Fitzrovia Cultural Centre in London.
Residing at the George Washington Hotel on
Lexington Avenue
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in
New York City
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, in 1994, he founded the Mondrian Fan Club with Adam Nankervis as vice-president.
Between 1 January 1995 and 14 February 1995 Medalla rented a space at 55 Gee Street, London, where he lived and exhibited. He exhibited seven new versions of his biokinetic constructions of the sixties (bubble machines; and a monumental sand machine). These machines were constructed from Medalla's original designs, by the English artist
Dan Chadwick. The exhibition also featured large-scale prints of his New York 'Mondrian Events' with Adam Nankervis, and five large oil paintings on canvas created by Medalla in situ at 55 Gee Street. Another important feature was a monumental animated neon relief entitled 'Kinetic Mudras for
Piet Mondrian
Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (), after 1906 known as Piet Mondrian (, also , ; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being ...
' constructed by
Frances Basham using
argon and neon lighting after Medalla's original idea and designs.
Medalla also invited artists to perform at the space.
Medalla lectured extensively, including at the
Sorbonne
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*the University of Paris (c. 1150 – 1970)
*one of its components or linked institution, ...
, the
École des Beaux-Arts
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in Paris, the
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
of New York,
Silliman University
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, the
University of the Philippines
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, the Universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht, the New York Public Library,
Simon Fraser University
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in Vancouver, Canada, the Universities of
Oxford
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,
Cambridge
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, Canterbury, Warwick, and Southampton in England, the
Slade School of Fine Art
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, and
St. Martin's.
He was the founder and director of the
London Biennale in 1998, a “do-it-yourself” free arts festival, which hosts work by
Mai Ghoussoub,
Mark McGowan
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McGowan was born and raised in Newcastle, New South Wales. He attended t ...
,
Deej Fabyc,
Marko Stepanov,
Adam Nankervis,
James Moores
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Career
Moores served as a member of the ...
,
Dimitri Launder, Fritz Stolberg, Salih Kayra, Marisol Cavia, and many others.
In 2010 Medalla participated in a residency in
Brazil
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and - in collaboration with Adam Nankervis - exhibited at the sho
“The Secret History of Mondrian Fanclub- Homage to
Hélio Oiticica
Hélio Oiticica (; July 26, 1937 – March 22, 1980) was a Brazilian visual artist, sculptor, painter, performance artist, and theorist, best known for his participation in the Neo-Concrete Movement, for his innovative use of color, and for ...
,
Lygia Pape
Lygia Pape (7 April 1927 – 3 May 2004) was a Brazilian visual artist, sculptor, engraver, and filmmaker, who was a key figure in the Concrete art, Concrete movement and a later co-founder of the Neo-Concrete Movement in Brazil during the ...
and
Lygia Clark
Lygia Pimentel Lins (23 October 1920 – 25 April 1988), better known as Lygia Clark, was a Brazilian artist best known for her painting and installation work. She was often associated with the Brazilian Constructivist movements of the mid-20t ...
”, curated by Adriano Casanova at Baro Galeria.
During this period he also produced the artwor
Cosmic Pandora Micro-Box published in 2018 in the book by James Cahil
"Flying Too Close to the Sun: Myths in Art from Classical to Contemporary" Phaidon.
Medalla won awards from the
New York Foundation for the Arts
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and the
Jerome Foundation
James Jerome Hill II (March 2, 1905 – November 21, 1972) was an American filmmaker and artist known for his award-winning documentary and experimental films.
Career
Hill was the child of railroad executive Louis W. Hill.
He was educated at Y ...
.
In 2017 Medalla's seminal participatory work "A Stitch in Time" was included in the
57th Venice Biennale
The 57th Venice Biennale was an international contemporary art exhibition held between May and November 2017. The Venice Biennale takes place biennially in Venice, Italy. Artistic director Christine Macel, the chief curator at the Centre Pompi ...
curated by
Christine Macel
Christine Macel (born 1969) is a French curator. She was the director of the 2017 Venice Biennale, and is chief curator at the Centre Pompidou.
Early life
Christine Macel was born in Paris in 1969.
Career
Macel is a contributor to several m ...
.
David Medalla is represented by his extensive archives as private collection, another vacant space. Berlin Germany 2011 to the present.
Death
Medalla died in Manila on December 28, 2020. He is survived by his partner, curator Adam Nankervis, who reported that Medalla "passed away gently in his sleep."
Style and works
Major series
''Cloud Canyons''
In the September 1964 issue of ''Signals Newsbulletin'', Medalla included images of his bubble machines, later called ''Cloud Canyons''. Medalla considered it a scientific and philosophical challenge, his attempt in achieving the concept of an expanding and continuously changing sculpture. Despite little mainstream appraisal upon its initial presentation to the public, the ''Cloud Canyons'' series is considered a pioneering example of
kinetic art.
The work draws inspiration from and acts as a response to the
auto-destructive sculptures of Polish artist
Gustav Metzger
Gustav Metzger (10 April 1926, Nuremberg – 1 March 2017, London) was a German artist and political activist who developed the concept of Auto-Destructive Art and the Art Strike.
Together with John Sharkey, he initiated the Destruction in Ar ...
, a contributor to the ''Signals Newsbulletin'', who called Medalla "the first master of auto-creative art." Other contemporary admirers of the bubble machines include the artist
Hans Haacke
Hans Haacke (born August 12, 1936) is a German-born artist who lives and works in New York City. Haacke is considered a "leading exponent" of Institutional Critique.
Early life
Haacke was born in Cologne, Germany. He studied at the '' Staatlic ...
as well as scientists
Werner Heisenberg
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and
J. D. Bernal
John Desmond Bernal (; 10 May 1901 – 15 September 1971) was an Irish scientist who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography in molecular biology. He published extensively on the history of science. In addition, Bernal wrote popular boo ...
. Photographs of Medalla's early bubble machines would go on to inspire
Marcel Duchamp
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (, , ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso ...
's ''Medallic Object'' sculpture.
One of the early bubble machines created, ''Cloud Canyons No. 3'', was first exhibited in 1964 at Signals Gallery, was re-created in 2004 for the exhibition ''Art & The 60s: This Was Tomorrow'' at
Tate Britain
Tate Britain, known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery, is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London, England. It is part of the Tate network of galleries in ...
, which acquired the work in 2006.
As a result, Medalla became the first Filipino to have his work as part of the Tate's permanent collection. The sculpture was later included in the Tate Britain exhibitions ''Migrations: Journeys into British Art'' in 2012 and ''Queer British Art 1861–1967'' in 2017.
In 2016, Medalla presented a new version of the bubble machines in an exhibition at
The Hepworth Wakefield
The Hepworth Wakefield is an art museum in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, which opened on 21 May 2011. The gallery is situated on the south side of the River Calder and takes its name from artist and sculptor Barbara Hepworth who was born an ...
for the inaugural
Hepworth Prize for Sculpture.
The sculpture, called ''Cloud Canyons No. 31'', was later exhibited at the 14th Biennale of Lyon, bought by
Sotheby's
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S2 gallery, before being sold and then permanently installed for public viewing by the Philippine bank
BDO at their Corporate Center in
Ortigas
Ortigas Center is a central business district located within the joint boundaries of Pasig, Mandaluyong and Quezon City, within the Metro Manila region in the Philippines. With an area of more than , it is Metro Manila's second most important bu ...
.
Sculptures from the ''Cloud Canyons'' series are found in the permanent collections of Tate Britain, the
Queensland Art Gallery
The Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) is an art museum located in South Bank, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The gallery is part of QAGOMA. It complements the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) building, situated only away.
The Queensland Art Gallery ...
, and the
Auckland Art Gallery
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is the principal public gallery in Auckland, New Zealand. It has the most extensive collection of national and international art in New Zealand and frequently hosts travelling international exhibitions.
Set be ...
, while papers with initial sketches and plans for a bubble machine are part of the permanent collection of the
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
.
''A Stitch in Time''
The participatory art work ''A Stitch in Time'' was first staged in 1968 and has been reimagined multiple times afterwards. The installation features a suspended stretch of cloth with bobbins hanging above. Participants are invited to stitch small objects and designs onto the cloth. Early stagings of the installation were produced at exhibitions such as ''
documenta 5
documenta 5 was the fifth edition of documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition. It was held between 30 June and 8 October 1972 in Kassel, West Germany. The artistic director was Harald Szeemann ''
Harald Szeemann (11 June 1933 – 18 ...
'', curated by
Harald Szeeman ''
Harald Szeemann (11 June 1933 – 18 February 2005) was a Swiss curator, artist, and art historian. Having curated more than 200 exhibitions, many of which have been characterized as groundbreaking, Szeemann is said to have helped redefine the ro ...
, and ''A Survey of the Avant-Garde in Britain'', both in 1972, as well as at the poorly-received ''POPA at MOMA'' at the
Modern Art Oxford
Modern Art Oxford is an art gallery established in 1965 in Oxford, England. From 1965 to 2002, it was called The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
The gallery presents exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. It has a national and internationa ...
in 1971.
Awards and honors
In 2012, Medalla was given the Gawad Tanglaw ng Lahi award from
Ateneo de Manila University
, mottoeng = Light in the Lord
, type = Private, research, non-profit, coeducational basic and higher education institution
, established = December 10, 1859
, religious_affiliation = Roman Catholic (Jesuits)
, academic_aff ...
, which recognizes those who have pursued Filipino identity through any channel of culture. The awarding coincided with an exhibit of Medalla's work at the
Ateneo Art Gallery
The Ateneo Art Gallery is a museum of modern art of the Ateneo de Manila University. It is the first of its kind in the Philippines. It serves as an art resource for the university community and the general public as well. The Gallery is located ...
.
In 2016, Medalla was shortlisted for the inaugural
Hepworth Prize for Sculpture alongside
Phyllida Barlow
Dame Phyllida Barlow (born 4 April 1944) is a British artist. She studied at Chelsea College of Art (1960–63) and the Slade School of Art (1963–66). She joined the staff of the Slade in the late 1960s and taught there for more than forty y ...
,
Steven Claydon
Steven Claydon (born 1969) is a sculptor and musician based in London.
Claydon was born in London. He has performed and shown work internationally in exhibitions at Tate Modern in London, Art Basel in Switzerland, in Düsseldorf and Portikus in ...
, and
Helen Marten
Helen Elizabeth Marten (born 1985 in Macclesfield) is an English artist based in London who works in sculpture, video, and installation art. Marten studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at the University of Oxford (2005–2008) an ...
.
References
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