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Unknown or moped by the major part of traditional art exhibitions, the land or bio art is the fruit of a collaboration of scientists and artists trying to exploit in vivo scientific knowledge in pieces of living artwork. This movement promotes a cognitive dimension of art developed since the early 60's parallel to electronic music and numeric images. We could talk about a new relation build between humans, science and knowledge.
For the first time in Spain , 50 international bio personalities are gathered in the Contemporaneous Art centre of Andalusia to present their artwork. The exhibition “Bios4: biotechnological and environmental art” takes place in Sevilla from the 3 rd of May to the 2 nd of September.
The artist came with a technical problem to realize her creative idea and the scientist, Dr Ligia Martins, answered trough innovative methods to form an only team.
This project has been realized in collaboration with the laboratory of Doctor Ligia Martins from Oeiras in Portugal . This laboratory is investigating the use of bacteria for the treatment of industrial effluent coming from the dyestuff industry. The artist worked together with the scientist to adapt the bacterial action to the conditions of an exhibition of 4 months. |
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about colour industry
Because education is an important factor in the dialog between science and society and because biotechnology is a word too often misunderstood by the public, partners of the SOPHIED project are always opened to new way to communicate their passion to the public and the benefits of biotechnology for our future. Their encounter with a bio artist was in this perspective an excellent opportunity to achieve this objective. 
Bio artists use different approaches to manipulate the life process: they bring biomaterials to an inert form or to a specify behaviour, they transform living organisms with or without social and environmental integration or they use biotechnological process in an unusual way like Marta de Menezes does in her project DECON. 
This incubator proposes to visitors to explore the post contemporaneous world inviting them to dance with hysteric robots, talk to orchids, dream with robotic cats about electronic fish or reinterpret the neoplasticism of Piet Mondrian in paintings discoloured by bacteria. 
Marta de Menezes is a Portuguese artist with a degree in Fine Arts by the University in Lisbon and a master in History of Art and Visual Culture by the University of Oxford . In recent years, she has been exploring the interaction between Art and Biology, working in research laboratories demonstrating that biotechnological technologies can be used as new art. 
The DECON project aims to explore biotechnology methods and materials as artmedia, in order to create paintings that are literally alive and they deconstruct themselves while exhibited. Reproductions of Piet Mondrian‘s geometric paintings have been created on bacterial support medium. The work of art is constituted by 4 reproductions of Piet Mondrian art works. The colour of the paintings will disappear progressively.