Canales de comunicación y detonantes de dudas
¿Cómo puede el arte tener una proyección real en la sociedad? ¿Puede el arte ser un instrumento de transformación social? ¿Puede un artista dirigir su trabajo hacia colectivos o comunidades concretas y analizar sus conflictos sin que su trabajo sea considerado como de etnógrafo, sociólogo o antropólogo amateur? ¿En qué se diferencia un proyecto artístico […]
HISTORIAS MÍNIMAS
El 2 de agosto del año 1914, Franz Kafka escribe en su diario “Alemania ha declarado la guerra a Rusia. Por la tarde, fui a nadar”. Hay una gran desproporción entre los dos hechos que Kafka contrapone: uno de gran impacto histórico, la primera Guerra Mundial, y otro nimio, de la vida privada de un […]
TRANSGENERATIONS 2
Transgeneracions 2 is the response to an invitation: to work from the idea of ”generation”. This has been the starting point for initiating a research process, to open spaces for dialogue, for exchange and joint and cross-reflection. Voices, visions and experiences of more than a hundred agents have been incorporated, including artists, critics, curators, people […]
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION (ENG)
“Six Degrees of Separation” presents a selection of videos from Cal Cego (www.calcego.com), a private collection focused on the present and characterised by the significant presence of photography and video as means of artistic expression. “Six Degrees of Separation”, the core idea behind this program of videos, is a theory based on the idea that […]
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION
“Six Degrees of Separation” presents a selection of videos from Cal Cego (www.calcego.com), a private collection focused on the present and characterised by the significant presence of photography and video as means of artistic expression. “Six Degrees of Separation”, the core idea behind this program of videos, is a theory based on the idea that […]
DEPICTING LOVE
ABOUT DEPICTING LOVE Love is rather a relative notion. Rarely is it the object of serious study, although it is omnipresent in music, film, literature, drama and, of course, life. The word calls to mind a very mixed range of associations, from the most irredeemably kitsch marketing strategies to the most intimate facets of our […]
Montse Badia
Montse Badia ha colaborado en diversas publicaciones especializadas como Transversal, arts.zin, Untitled (Londres), Nu: The Nordic Art Review (Estocolmo), Tema Celeste (Milán), ARCO y Bonart. Ha comisariado exposiciones en De Appel Foundation (Amsterdam), Apex Art (Nueva York), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlín), Fundación Joan Miró, MACBA (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona) y Fundación “la Caixa” (Barcelona). […]
DAVID SHRIGLEY (ENG)
There is a point in Valle-Inclán’s play Bohemian Lights when the author speaks through the mouth of his protagonist, Max Estrella: ‘Classical heroes reflected in those concave mirrors manifest Esperpento. The tragic sense of life can occur only with a systematically deformed aesthetics.’ The drawings of David Shrigley touch on the dark side of everyday […]
DAVID SHRIGLEY
At one point in “Luces de Bohemia,” Valle-Inclán speaks through the mouth of his protagonist, Max Estrella: “Classical heroes reflected in concave mirrors give the Esperpento. The tragic sense of life can only be given with a systematically deformed aesthetic.” David Shrigley’s drawings allude to the darkest side of everyday existence. They are direct, uncompromising, […]
PENSA/PIENSA/THINK (Group Show)
TIME Los Angeles, 2019 On the roof of the Lloyd building, Roy Batty, the leader of the group of rebel replicants who have returned to Earth to learn the meaning of their existence, is about to accept his end: “I have seen things you people wouldn’t believe. I have seen ships attacking on fire off […]
