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Has Contemporary Art Died, Like a Label Twist?

I understand the ongoing bombardment on the relevance of contemporary art as we knew it because right here the first question pops up: and how did we know it? How can we prefigure a minimal assortmen

Language, word and city in VÄLPARAÍSO INterVENCIONES

Between march and april this year, chile hosted VÄLPARAÍSO INterVENCIONES, an exhibition of modern art displayed in public venues, patrimonial buildings and exhibition halls in the port, with 24 proj

Damasceno’s Contemplative Thinking

Some time ago I read two interviews with brazilian artist Jose Damasceno. I thought he was an elderly man. I felt like I was “listening” to someone with a lot of experience in life. I was surprised t

From the screen to the “layers” in painting, or how to talk quicker about our delays

Our access to reality is made almost always through a screen (cell phones, digital cameras, video games, DVD players, television, etc). Reconnaissance within this dynamic, in the case of marginal con

The sidelong look. Visions of our Latin American neighborhood

Based on a minimum registration of seven Mexican artists’ recent work, the factors fostering the different ways of perceiving, interpreting and reinterpreting art are explored here. Every gesture bri

Landscape thinking

While delving into the history of 19th century’s Cuban painting, one of the most significant dates of all is January 1981. The Volume 1 exhibition –organized and curated by a group of young artists–

Luis Camnitzer: The Hand Holding the Horizon

La verdad es que el lenguaje es otra cosa Jorge Luis Borges

Architectural Minimalism: A Loft for Living and Working

In our architectural practice we strive for an elegant economy of means, both material and aesthetic. We thrive on the analytical rigor required to bring order to complex programmatic and technical pro

Chronicles of the Floridian Arcadia

What do art fairs exhibit? The leftovers of works by historical avant-guard “sacred cows” that did not make it to museums, big companies and auction houses; the exponent “substitutes” of emerging trend