You are not Alone. Art as a driving force for awareness, action and the fight against AIDS
In 1987, six years after the first cases of AIDS were detected, a group of six American artists and activists created “Silence = Death”, a slogan that aimed to break the taboos surrounding the disease. In twenty years, things have changed a lot. Medical research has advanced spectacularly. However, in many non-Western countries, prevention and […]
Something is moving
There are movements in the Spanish art scene: new directions at the CGAC, the MUSAC, the Virreina Centro de la Imagen and the Museo Picasso in Malaga, a competition about to be resolved at the Canódromo and Hangar… but in addition to these variations of institutional pieces, other synergies are beginning to be detected. Other […]
About the everyday
“The spectacle of the everyday.” This is the title of the tenth edition of the Lyon Biennial, which has just opened only a few weeks ago. Recently, Photoespaña’09 in Madrid, dedicated to “The everyday,” also closed. If, as Harald Szeeman said, artists are the seismographs of the changes that occur in society, there is no […]
Angels, virgins and rockets. About “The Dream and the Promise” by Aleksandra Mir at Galería Joan Prats
Link to the article in A*DESK In her second solo exhibition in Barcelona, Aleksandra Mir returns to a theme that interests her, the moon and space, this time in combination with angels, saints, virgins and little else. The moon, rockets, aviation, newspapers and global communication have been recurring themes in Aleksandra Mir’s work. The dialectic […]
Bad times for criticism
The American artist Lawrence Weiner once wrote, “all art comes from anger,” or in other words, from discontent, from the need to point out what doesn’t work and what should be rethought. This is a line that has run through art for centuries: from Honoré Daumier’s caricatures in which he exposed all those situations that […]
Disabled documents. About “On the margins of art. Creation and political commitment” at the MACBA Study and Documentation Centre.
Link to the article in A*DESK One of the responsibilities of a museum is to activate meanings by contextualising what is presented. For example, it is not the same to look at Richard Hamilton’s emblematic collage “Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?” in isolation, than to see it alongside […]
MINIMAL HISTORIES
On August 2, 1914, Franz Kafka writes in his diary “Germany has declared war on Russia. In the afternoon, I went swimming.” There is a great disparity between the facts that Kafka puts forth: one of great historical impact, WWI, and on the other extreme, one of the private life of some unknown upon whom […]
Me and Richard Prince. About “Richard Prince and the Revolution”, an exhibition curated by Jonathan Monk at ProjecteSD
Link to the article in A*DESK Talking about others to talk about oneself is a well-known strategy in the art world. This is precisely what Jonathan Monk does, using the master Richard Prince, a group of young artists and, to round off the quote, Prince himself, the genius from Minnesota. Jonathan Monk is an artist […]
Correction and honesty. About “Making Worlds” in Venice
Link the article in A*DESK Despite the proliferation of biennials held around the world and the acceptance of their speculative nature, the Venice Biennale remains the benchmark event to which the entire art world flocks. As much criticised as it is celebrated, the Venice event remains firmly present on all the Blackberries, iPhones and Moleskins […]
Films, films, films y más films. Sobre 55. International Short film Festival Oberhausen
Nunca como ahora se había visto tanto cine, aunque no necesariamente en las salas de cine. Televisión, DVD, museos, galerías y centros de arte, Internet y también teléfonos móviles son espacios habituales de consumo cinematográfico. Ante este panorama cambiante, ¿qué papel puede desempeñar y qué reto debe asumir uno de los festivales más antiguos y […]
