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 […]
Ariadne’s thread
Link to the article published in A*DESK Museums have long since recovered and studied in depth the works of conceptual artists, but now it is the market that brings them to the forefront, as well as younger artists who quote, reread and research their references. Lawrence Wiener already wrote this in his famous “Declaration of […]
Cosas que a veces no conducen a nada…
Measuring is a way of knowing the magnitude of things, of controlling, of putting things in order. A recent novel by Daniel Kehlmann, The Measurement of the World, takes as its protagonists two historical figures, the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, a supporter of abstraction and logical deduction, and the astronomer Alexander von Humboldt, a naturalist […]
REACCIÓN EN CADENA (CHAIN REACTION) (ENG)
A chain reaction is a sequence of events, each caused by the previous one. It is also the name given to a chemical reaction in which the product of one event is the reactant in the next, and so on. A chain reaction implies a certain energy input, which generates an expansion of events. A […]
CHAIN REACTION
A chain reaction is a sequence of events, each one caused by the previous one. It is also a chemical reaction that gives rise to products that themselves cause another reaction equal to the first and so on. A chain reaction implies a certain impulse of energy that generates an amplification of events. A chain […]
Put an artist in your living room. About Biennale für Lichtkunst Ruhr 2010
Link to the article in A*DESK The Ruhr area in Germany has been transforming its industrial character into a new cultural identity for some time now. The status of cultural capital for the entire area and the first edition of a biennial centred on light are the most recent examples of this process. All cities […]
Test benches. On filmmakers who exhibit in museums and artists who make films
The recent exhibition of Tim Burton at the MoMA in New York, the constant appearance of articles about some films and filmmakers (Haneke, Tarkovski, Kiarostami…) in specialized art magazines and, above all, the way in which some artists insist on offering a cinematic experience in their installations in museums and art centers, demonstrate the absolute […]
