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OMAR ALBERTO FIGUEROA TURCIOS

Born in Corozal, Sucre, Colombia, in 1968. He was a collaborating writer with all major Colombian newspapers and magazines, such as El Tiempo, El Espectador, Revista Cromos, Semana, and others. His car

Editorial 4 English

The fourth issue of Art by Excelencias brought to our readers today speaks volumes of how our publication –in a short span of time– has been enhancing its ties with experts, institutions, artists and c

First Chile Triennial. Scouting the boundaries

Chile’s First Visual Arts Triennial has displayed neither artworks nor artists who can put on a good show. However, a whole country got hyped as a scenario thanks to a job well done by renowned curator

Art on the Web...

For those who like critical and appreciative analysis of art, the coming of new publications is always a reason for joy. For over a century, culture-oriented magazines have been adding volumes to the i

Killing the Discursive Father?

How can art reviews be made in the Americas? That’s a heck of a question. How can art reviews be focused on a young art where, as we read in this section of the magazine’s first issue, definition, iden

Tomás Sánchez. Going beyond time

“Those who are creative work through the past, the present and the future, going beyond time; those who are not, accept the ties of the old and the new”. Abanindranath Tagore The latest presentations

Michael Dweck.

Michael Dweck is a sensualist, a documentarian, a good story teller, and a great admirer of feminine beauty. He is also something of an islander in spirit, raised as he was on Long Island, New York. In

Art by Excelencias at UNEAC

With the presence of Miguel Barnet, president of Cuba’s League of Writers and Artists (UNEAC); deputy president Jose Villa Soberon; Lesbia Vent Dumois, president of the Fine Arts Association; Maria Car

The Lynx, the mask and the tightrope

Maurizio Cattelan’s playful heresies are pigeonholed in the controversy between essence and appearance that rules different contemporary disguising strategies. Among the body, the object and the action

Four-handed

One of the most striking and symbolic artworks of the past Havana Biennia was no doubt “The Oil Tanker” by artists Reynerio Tamayo (Niquero, 1968) and Eulises Niebla (Matanzas, 1963). The piece intends