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Rigo 23
Through the Glassworks
Earth’s Oldest Satellite
Me and You, Some in the Fewture 1990 – 2017
In 2017, the building known as The Glassworks on Mill Bay was still the home of a Sixth Form Centre, with many of its students following a thriving arts curriculum. At the invitation of the Head Teacher, the Triennial that year commissioned artist Rigo 23 (born Ricardo Gouveia) to enliven the walls around the school’s entrance.
One of the resulting murals, Through The Glassworks, was intended by the artist as a long term participatory ‘canvas’ for student talent: an invitation and inspiration to the students at Centre to make their mark on Folkestone’s cultural landscape. The painted billboards in the landscape (initially carrying the title double edge) were intentionally left as an open space for student self-expression, to be re-painted twice each year with the co-operation of the teaching staff. In 2018 the Sixth Form Centre unexpectedly moved its premises.
Earth’s Oldest Satellite
When researching the surroundings of The Glassworks Sixth Form Centre, Rigo 23 was struck by the number of immigrant families living on Tontine Street and the immediate vicinity, and by the level of aspiration that the chi
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Warehouse Gallery becomes Taté Wikikuwa Museum for a while
The Warehouse Gallery has changed its appearance to temporarily host a fictive Native American museum: the Taté Wikikuwa Museum by Rigo 23, focusing on Native American Leonard Peltier. A public reception will be held Thursday, Nov. 18 from 5–8 p.m., featuring live music by Robert Benedict, Native American flutist. The exhibition is intended for audiences of all ages. All events are free and open to the public.
On Saturday, Nov.20 at 3 p.m., The Warehouse Gallery will screen “Incident at Oglala” (1992) by Michael Apted followed by a roundtable discussion on “Leonard Peltier and the Civil Rights Movement” at the Warehouse Auditorium. Speakers are: Tom Poor Baer, Oglala; Bruce Ellison, attorney; Allan Jamieson, Wolf clan from Grand River territory, coordinator of Neto; Robert Hillary King, Angola Three; and Rigo 23, artist. The moderator is Gregg Lambert, Dean’s Professor of Humanities and director of the SU Humanities Center.
Intercultural relations and issues of justice are often present in Rigo 23’s art, which includes working with political prisoners, such as Native American Leonard Peltier, the subject of this show. Accused and convicted of the murder of two FBI agents in 1976, Peltier has been and remains the cen
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San Francisco Chronicle: A giant Bay Square footage art institution near rendering Chevron refinery vanished. Picture artists state it was stolen
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San Francisco Chronicle
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