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 […]
Jafre, 10 years of biennial
It began in a casual and festive way: in 2003, Mario Flecha invited a group of friends to hold an art event in a house he had just bought in Jafre, a town in the Baix Empordà with 300 inhabitants. With all the irony in the world, he called it a “biennial.” It was the […]
Momentos de autenticidad: Mireia Sallarès y Bernard-Marie Koltès
Link to the article in A*DESK We’ve been watching it for a while. Perhaps it is due to the crisis and the cuts, but not only that. It is happening in most cultural events: cinema, theatre, music and, of course, visual arts. There is a return to self-management, to do it yourself, to direct and […]
New stories vs. immovable collections
Link to A*DESK For some time now, the programming of contemporary art museums and foundations has not been mainly based on exhibitions and projects curated by independent (or “multi-dependent” to be more precise) collaborators outside the institution. The crisis of the institutions, which is both economic and identity-related, is responsible for the fact that collections […]
À la ville de… Barcelona
Link to the article in A*DESK Urban imaginaries allow us to approach social and urban reality from symbolic, cultural and intangible dimensions. The anthropologist and cultural critic Néstor García Canclini stated in his book Imaginarios urbanos that “many assumptions that guide the actions and omissions of citizens derive from how we perceive the uses of […]
Lutz Mommartz, “Soziale Plastik” (1969)
Back to Tàpies
Link to the article in A*DESK It has been so long since Tàpies was the subject of serious study that it is now news. A few months ago, Valentín Roma went “against Tàpies” and confronted him with the present (at the Fundació Tàpies). Now Vicenç Todolí wants to go in his favour and show his […]
