Enric Farrés-Duran
Enric Farrés-Duran (Palafrugell, Girona, 1983) is a storyteller in which the real and the fictional end up meeting and modifying each other. His work is articulated through research, coincidences and fortuitous encounters and the possibility of making connections between different places, objects and circumstances. Farrés-Duran creates narratives that reveal hidden and unexpected relationships, which sometimes […]
Some uncomfortable questions about art and its impact on reality
Link to the article in A*DESK The ADN gallery in Barcelona is currently presenting a collective exhibition which, as the text on the exhibition leaflet explains, “starts from the idea of the artist as an accomplice and witness to social dynamics that require their involvement, commitment and an active positioning that goes beyond denunciation.” The […]
When art becomes experience
In his latest book, Kassel does not invite logic, Enrique Vila-Matas creates, as he himself writes, “a fictionalized report of my participation in Documenta,” in which he mainly recounts his reencounter with the experience that art is capable of generating. Although at first, the invitation to Kassel is presented to him as a Martian proposal […]
The “like” culture
Digital culture has changed the way we read texts. We read diagonally, in hypertext or by keywords. Social networks have played a prominent role in this process. Although we may find it hard to admit it, the “like” button is having a huge impact on the way we relate to and access cultural events. The […]
Who is George Kaplan?
Link to the article in A*DESK George Kaplan is a myth, a legend, a rebel, a virus, a fiction, or rather, several fictions. George Kaplan appears in Alfred Hitchcock’s film North by Northwest (1959). He is the character that Cary Grant is mistaken for and because of whom he is chased by a crop duster […]
INVOCABLE REALITY
http://www.macba.cat/en/exhibition-la-invocable-reality Entrevista en Sonia, la radio del MACBA Catálogo / Catàleg / Catalogue “Buscarse enemigos”, recorrido de Enric Farrès-Duran Roman Ondak Teaching to walk Press TV3 – Telenotícies Vespre Núvol Núvol- Connexió Barcelona – BTV El Plan B – BTV
Artist’s genealogies
For an artist, it is as important that his work is known, recognised and appreciated as it is that it is properly contextualised, that it can form part of a whole genealogy, that a continuity can be traced in his career, linking it to previous artists and also to artists of later generations. Five cases […]
Entrevista a BONART
Revista Bonart (entrevista realizada per Mercè Alzina)
All what I want for 2014
Link to the article in A*DESK Every Saturday, the programme Tot és comèdia on Ràdio Barcelona/Cadena Ser ends with the “Vull” (I Want) section in which a guest expresses his wishes, that is, “everything he wants”, and he does so following the pattern of a poem by José Agustín Goytisolo entitled Quiero todo esto […]
Criticism, applause and good wishes
We are in an emergency situation. Social, political and economic values and models are changing, and we fear that they will change for the worse. Taking stock of what 2013 has been is no longer an innocent exercise consisting of pointing out what we liked and what we didn’t, but cannot be isolated from the […]
