About
Osaira Muyale. Contemporary visual artist, Aruba.
‘BLUE HORSE
‘ I can see paradise ‘
In between time and space, i am an immigrant who talk about the country she moved to,
an emigrant who dream of the country she left. Recovery of nature is recovery of being human.
– Osaira Muyale
‘Blue Horses’ is an ongoing project since 2011.
Powered by National and International foundations and prestigious institutions and collaborators.
Mondriaan Fund, FE, Government of Aruba, ATA, TPEF, Unoca, PBCFCG, GenAir.
(2023-2027) ‘Birds of Paradise’ A new Language.’- Osaira Muyale and Mondriaan Fund.
Project ‘Birds of Paradise’. A new Language. Conversation on artwork representing a new freedom. Anima Mundi or world soul. The interconnection, which relates to the world in much the same way as the soul is connected to the human body. Healing the soul and spirit, a research on ancestors, saints, sacred spaces, multiverse, parallel lines and quantum physics. Funded by Mondriaan Fund, a Dutch public fund for visual art and cultural heritage.(Grand Artist Basis/Kunstenaar Basis 2023-2027).
(25.11.2022 undefined period) Installation ‘Blue Horse’ at MANA.
Between Aruba and Holland, I found Paradise’ – Osaira Muyale.
Collaboration with Museo Arqueologico Nacional Aruba (MANA), Dr. Pancho Geerman.
https://manaruba.org/
This work is on a lease-lend invitation at the National Archaeological Museum Aruba (MANA).
The sleeping horse separated in two, one part with the shield of arms of Aruba and the shields of arms of The Netherlands. It illustrates the cultural connection of understanding and differences. The History of the past and the present is still connected yet separated by the immense blue sea.
Investigating water as a geological and biological metaphor and a natural source of healing generational and the historical language. The artwork is a broad conversation on subjective individual and collective narratives, participating awareness with a bird’s eye view on art and culture, social, political, ecological, spiritual, and cultural subjects.
(2015-2025). Blue Horses – ‘Paardenbaai’ Art in public space, centrum Oranjestad.
A Tribute to ‘Paardenbaai’ (Horses Bay). A contribution to Culture, preservation of historical and contemporary history of Community, infrastructure, commerce, and local identity. Renwick Heronimo, art curator.
Sites of 8 life size blue horse sculptures (2m. x 80cm x 1.50m)
Werfstraat timesquare, Rosalinda(30.7.2015)
Zoutmanstraat, Ambrosio (3.8.2015)
L.G.Smith Boulevard/havengebouw, Celestina & Bonifacia(6.8.2015)
Plaza D.Leo, Eufrosina& Sinforosa(6.8.2015)
Schelpstraat /Museo Argeologico, Saturnina(13.8.2015)
Nassaustraat /La linda, Escapia(13.8.2015)
www.paardenbaai.com
Paardenbaai name arrives from the Aruban and European trade commerce and economy in the 1700 Century. Aruba and Holland were into cattle exchange. Especially in horses trading. The Arubans bought their horses at the coast of Venezuela and Colombia together with the one hundred Indians that still lived near Forti Abow, where the peer of Paardenbaai ( Horses bay) is now). The horses had enough space to live and gallop in the ranches (Ranchos) for their multiplication. International Horse export started in 1800 century and was one of the most important sources of livelihood for Aruba especially to the sugar countries. A Horse is by far one of the largest contributor to the enhancement of civilization. The 8 Sculptures represents strengths ‘nobility, grace, beauty and freedom. It represents Aruban collaboration with locals and international communities and its business trade world. Europe, South America, Caribbean islands and the Mediterranean. The Blue horses represents the important historical moment where the horses jumped from the ship deck into the Caribbean Ocean and swim to our Aruban Bay ‘Paarden baai’. This work is based on the story of book‘travels in west indies’ (1829-1836), A trip to Aruba about 1825, on page 113 of the 2nd volume by Ds.G.B. Bosch. www.mondriaanfonds.nl/gehonoreerd/gehonoreerde-plannen-bijdrage-opdrachtgeverschap/.
(2015-2025) ‘Paradise Park’.
A blue horse installation at Studio Osaira Muyale, Oranjestad Aruba.
Conversations on timeless narratives. Sea, sound and silence.
Research from (2011 -2015) and presented to the public until present day.
Paradise Park originates from a transcendental dream, a space between waters.
The Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. The interconnection of subjects on hybrid, ecology,
spirituality and sustainability, species crossing a solemn sound by la petite Fille De la Mer.
Paradise Park unite words in deep see water. ww.osairamuyale.com
(2014) (3- 2013.9) ‘Cabai Blauw’ – Blue Horse. Museum de Fundatie Zwolle, Netherlands.
Exposition Two hundred years of Tropical Kingdom.
The exhibition presents ‘Tropical Kingdom’, organized on the occasion of the celebration of ‘200 years of Kingdom. The guest curator of ‘Tropical Kingdom’ is art historian and publicist Maarten Jager. In this overview, he draws attention to the latest developments in art from the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The most representative representatives of the various art disciplines are represented in the exhibition. These include internationally oriented Caribbean, multicultural painting and sculpture, video, film, photography, ceramics and conceptual art including installations. Their art is shown mainly in the Caribbean itself and in Central America, particularly at the international biennials of Santo Domingo and Cuba. While expressive art from the Caribbean often transcends the local, the residents’ search for their own identity plays an important role in their art. The African and Indian heritage of Caribbean artists is obvious. In addition, the influence of Europe, Central America and even the Near East is manifest within the mix of cultures, because artists on Aruba in particular have Lebanese ancestors. In addition to the diaspora, the history of the islands, myths and customs, religion and the current socio-political situation are important themes in Caribbean art. Four centuries of Caribbean art are highlighted through 500 works of art. This exhibition at El Museo del Barrio, the Queens Museum of Art and the Studio Museum was preceded by ten years of research. ‘HP Horse Power’ When the connection is strong, the engines start and the fly begins to turn. Horse Power is an exhibition that experiences a modern research in the field of art and in the context of a historical moment. A union where Holland and Aruba place a meeting through a renewable energy ‘ Horses. Arubans and Dutch traded with horses from the 1700s, gradually more immigrants settled on the island, including Eastern European Jews and Lebanese. They had the first private businesses in Aruba. It was proposed as a visual journey through a variety of imaginative worlds created on creativity and expressive languages. A hybridization – a crossing of knowledge and opening up of productive conditions, similarities, compassion and passion of knowledge, competitiveness, cultural innovation and efficiency promotion. The subject of the work is a tribute to the ‘Horse Bay’ Oranjestad Aruba, where the citizen and the social merchants started their worlds. It was an embrace of Horse spirit and energy that speaks its noble and precious power and freedom in making great contributions to and strengthening cooperation and a hybrid cultural civilization. The work aims to take the public on a journey through cultural contexts, historical relationships and prospects. The PK was born from the allure of my private life and the artist’s studio. The installation consists of a space equipped with works of art, in the form of object finds, video work, photography, sculptures and text with inspiration about personally and historically established fascinating stories. Aruba is an island with a rich history, inhabited by archaeological remains and architectural monuments. The ideal place for investigating the relationship between heritage and memory. Video a landscape inventory loop of digital images (2002/2013), about correction and disorientation. Materials include object find, exhibition ‘Paradijs Park’ (2011-2014), stored heritage photography cross-puzzle. A hybridization, a crossing of knowledge and opening up of productive conditions, similarities, compassion and passion of knowledge, competitiveness, cultural innovation and efficiency promotion and sculptures, a hybrid collection – Cabai Blauw, life size objet trouve. Horse power research experiences in the field of art and in the context of a historical moment. An association where Holland and Aruba place a meeting through renewable energy. Subsidized by Unoca, FE, PBCFCG, Mondriaan fund. https://framerframed.nl/en/blog/tropisch-koninkrijk-hedendaagse-kunst-van-aruba-curacao-st-maarten-bonaire-saba-en-st-eustatius/
