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SCREAMS AND WHISPERS

Over thirty books have been written about Alfredo Jaar (Chile, 1956). Outstanding thinkers from around the globe have churned out brilliant texts on the most recognized Chilean artist worldwide. Some o

Octavio Paz and art review

A shortfall of research studies on the continental arts is the theoretical context poet Octavio Paz’s critical contribution hinges on. During the First Iberian American Meeting of Art Critics and Fine

RODRIGO MOYA: THE INSURRECTIONAL IMAGE

Rodrigo Moya is Mexican and was born in 1934. After 75 years of an intense lifetime in which he’s tried his hand at several trades and has nourished on countless experiences, the art and the trade that

Vernacular architecture in Caracas

Today’s Caracas boasts only a handful of colonial ambiences. The impetuousness of modernity rules the urban image, determined by the number and verticality of buildings, huge avenues and thoroughfares

SOULFUL COLOR AND LIGHT

Though an individual exhibit not always puts the artist’s work in the limelight of enthusiast and plentiful publicity –due to the artworks’ conception– and he or she doesn’t even get the kind of media

Tenth Cuenca Biennial. Reality and new times

Q & A with Head Curator. José Manuel Noceda. The tenth edition of the Cuenca International Biennial –slated from Oct. 22 to Dec. 4 this year– will this time around have an expert from another co

Alfaro: Ritual Memory

In Memoria Ritual (Ritual Me-mory), Cuban fine artist Angel Alfaro Echevarria sets out a historic and imaginary voyage in an effort to offer an artistic vision of the Yoruba world. In its narrative lay

A place for resistance. Ninth Video & Media Art Biennial, Chile 2009

The Ninth Video & Media Art Biennial, Chile 2009, is far more than a collection of a hundred pieces –situated halfway between art and technology, with an Internet accent and a touch of interactivit

Cildo Meireles. Against hegemonic ideas in art

Frames, as much as borders, bug Cildo Meireles. That’s why he doesn’t make movies despite the interest he once had in it 40 years ago. The point is films usually end with a similar format and is not a

A Galician in The Caribbean

In my third time around for The Archivist section, I want on the one hand to piece together some sort of a trilogy of a number of artists who are likened to the advance of the fine arts in the Caribbea