Fairs
An art fair is not just a pure and simple market, but involves much more. In fact, there are many confluences between an art fair and an art biennial. As an example, in 2007, four major events took place in Europe: the Skulptur Projekte Münster, Documenta, the Venice Biennale and Art Basel. June began with […]
Curating in crisis. Notes from Manifesta’s curatorial models
Link to the article in A*DESK Economy, politics, social relations… almost all aspects of our present are undergoing a process of redefinition. And art is not left out. Institutions, exhibitions and also curating are in crisis. Reinvent or die, that is the question. Curating is a relatively recent activity that, in four decades, has gone […]
Awards
Mark Twain wrote that “rejecting awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than usual.” An award always represents recognition of a work or a career, but there may be reasons to publicly reject it: among others, one may be critical or against the organization that grants it (or its interests); one may […]
Cintas de Moebius Sobre la construcción del yo en los trabajos de MP & MP Rosado
“El hecho ocurrió en el mes de febrero de 1969, al norte de Boston, en Cambridge. No lo escribí inmediatamente porque mi propósito fue olvidarlo, para no perder la razón”. Con estas palabras empieza Jorge Luis Borges su relato El Otro , en el que explica su “encuentro” casual en un banco del parque con […]
Recent history. Concealed narratives
Simon Starling’s work can be described as an intensive quest that involves travel, research and the possibility of making connections between different places, objects and historical and cultural circumstances. Starling’s unique and highly distinctive ideas are as humorous as they are erudite and he undertakes specific projects in relation to particular contexts. His trips, the […]
Recent history. Concealed Narratives
Simon Starling’s work can be described as an intensive quest that involves travel, research and the possibility of making connections between different places, objects and historical and cultural circumstances. Starling’s unique and highly distinctive ideas are as humorous as they are erudite and he undertakes specific projects in relation to particular contexts. His trips, the […]
Lists. On the need for guides and rankings
To point out, show, indicate, inform, point out, underline, guide… This seems to be the key in a society saturated with information, where the problem is not so much access but decoding. Lists, summaries and classifications seem to give us a bit of order and stability, even though we know that formulas such as “the […]
10 x 10: ANTONI ABAD MEGAFONE.NET
The invitation to participate in the European Cultural Congress in Wroclaw came to me with two good reasons to say yes. On the one hand, the invitation arrived from Poland, with which art’scene I have some contacts and good friends since 2000. On the other hand, the main theme of the congress, “Art for social […]
On the edge of the news
Link to the article in A*DESK The clichés associated with photojournalism have long since collapsed. Although this crisis is not new, the reflection that the exhibition we are now discussing is. Traditionally, the mission of photojournalism was to bring us closer to reality, often a distant and conflicting reality. The photojournalist had the task of […]
Reality is out there. About reality and its construction mechanisms
Human beings need to trust in reality, to hold on to it, even if we are aware that we live in non-reality. In other words, what the media calls reality is nothing more than a construction. Two recent exhibitions, the Berlin Biennial and Antifotoperiodismo, at the Virreina Centro de la Imagen, in Barcelona, address the […]
