Pablo Helguerall

Born in Mexico City

based out of NYC

Socially engaged art sculpture drawing photography

Also an author 

Solo show in Kent in NYC

Try to never repeat a presentation.. he never wants to boring 

Education for Socially- Engaged Art

Working in museums and museum education for 20 years

• education is intricate and a way to develop relationships with others 

When he started art he wanted to be a painter

• he could not get his communication across
• through teaching he became a better artist
• art that was not just and object but an experience

last art piece

• a game 50 participants only played once 
• will conclude in 2097 after all are passed away
• Friends, relatives and audience. Also 25 random visitors. All asked to engage in a life time commitment
• 16 envelops, only to be opened on a particular date
• all are doubled 
• the last is to be read on the day he dies
• he wrote a letter for the audience of the event
• each envelope have a series of instructions
• piecing together the past and giving us insight 

address concerns he already has. Time, with memory and relationships with individuals. The more we are connected the less we are in tune with each other. Create bonds with new people. The experience of being alive. See ourselves in the present. 

The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg. 2008

• similar rational 
• friends opened a alternative space in China Town
• Forever and Today
• Palm reading intrigued him, Gypsy 
• created his own set of cards, new and own system 
• Russian seven bridges, a mathematical problem, weather it was possible if you could crass all bridges then passing over one more then once. 
• by creating a proof, it founded systems theory 
• no life had a single path you can never recross a bridge or a time in your life
• the context of the images
• you teach not by giving people information by talking at, but help them articulate things they may know but not totally understand 
• people who would confess personal things and ideas 
• it was an art project, but it didn't matter to people, they felt as if it was real it was no longer a game
• getting out of the conventional environments of galleries and museums. we live in a world where art is an entertainment. Art is not just entertainment, it is supposed to ask questions and change minds and ideas.

Forum of Cultural Purification, Mexico City. 2003

• he wrote six papers and had actors learn them 
• organized a conference at a hotel and conference in a neutral zone.
• not one person knew it was a performance piece
• invited people who actually their papers next to the actors 
• the debates were strong and people were reacting in crazy ways
• the second panel he was the moderator
• final meeting- his friend ryan hill
• Ryan Hill for Rudy Gulianni 
• next day there was a press uproar, someone asked him if it was a performance... he told them nothing 
• does it matter if it a performance or not?
• Forcing a conversation that needed to be said

The Juvenal Players, 2009

• blurring the beginning and end
• For the art makers
• he wanted to do a play
• retrospective of a fictional artist
• died seven years ago 
• famous latin poet who is the father of satire
• he hated everything
• on the day of the opening there was a symposium there was a panel 
• all actors they knew nothing about art
• they can be more real then the real person
• no one knew it was fake
• be able to maintain the fiction till the very end
• at the end the characters confess their insecurities, how their lives are out of sorts
• moment of them questioning themselves
• they all leave except the one young woman
• she delivers a monolog
• she was a real artist
• how art is a very difficult thing  
• economic downturn

The BOy Inside the Letter

• diary, things everyday
• had to write even if it was stupid
• started writing to himself but in the future
• found a box and found his old diaries
• it was a younger but older him
• when he read it it made sense 
• Novel 
• confront that moment of a transition 
• we finally know who we are
• going from an art student to an artist
• child to adult
• from Mexico to U.S.
• showed it like an archeology museum

Wakefield 2010

• portrait of him and his daughter
• personal biography
• be brutally honest about the moment you are in
• not just confessional piece
• why do we need to share thins
• why does anyone care
• difficult to be a parent 
• Wakefield Nathaniel Hawthorne 
• feel completely contemporary
• changes his path, lease a room across the street from his house, what happens when he is not there
• still watching through the window, he finally leaves the room and goes across the street and walks right through the door.
• the possibility of breaking patterns 
• the social commitments