No Place Like Home and other gems of confinement
No Place Like Home and other gems of confinement How hard it is to make sense of things these days! Not to throw oneself into a compulsive digital hyperactivity, to open up broadly the access to archive material or simply not to be paralyzed by the future that awaits us. Back to normality? We […]
Cambios en el mundo de la cultura a raíz de la crisis del Coronavirus
#PensandoelFuturo. Entrevista
Entrevista Montse Badia: “Está en nuestra mano poner en valor nuestro trabajo, demostrar, una vez más, la importancia del arte y la cultura” Dentro del proyecto informativo colaborativo de reflexión sobre el futuro del arte y nuestra sociedad (#pensandoelfuturo / #pensandonofuturo), nacido en plena lucha contra la crisis del coronavirus, presentamos esta nueva entrevista con […]
ARCO 2020 or putting back the artist at the centre of it all
ARCO 2020 or putting back the artist at the centre of it all “The phone rings. Felix is dead. How? Felix is dead, I saw it in the newspaper. No, it can’t be. We knew about Ross, but Felix… We thought about Ross, about the possibility of death, about his disappearance. We tried to […]
Iconic
Iconic What is iconic? We asked ourselves this February on A*DESK. Iconic language is a system of both linguistic and visual representation. We often speak of iconic images and works to refer to those that are immediately recognizable, that become valid representations of a given moment, situation or time. A sort of temporal beacon. […]
Living Memory
The artist Christian Boltanski said that we actually die twice, the first time at the moment of death and then, when someone no longer recognises us in photographs. How important it is to take care of memory, personal and historical, recent memory and living memory, to reconcile with it, accept it and learn. Unlike events […]
Beuys should be revisited
Most of the great references of art from the second half of the 20th century are usually read from a contemporary perspective, emphasizing those aspects that are considered most relevant at each moment. Artists as versatile as Cindy Sherman can be analyzed from a photographic, cinematographic or appropriationist point of view, among others. At the […]
Artistic thinking + scientific thinking to change the world
Taking artists on a boat to a remote island in the South Pacific so they can work with marine biologists, environmental specialists, filmmakers and activists, in the middle of nowhere and with unexpected materials around them. This is the project developed by TBA21 Academy, a part of Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza’s TBA21 Foundation, which adds to artistic […]
OIL AND ARTISTS. A PROJECT BY CAL CEGO
The right to protest and change things
We live in turbulent times, to paraphrase the title of the exhibition with which the IVAM in Valencia commemorates its thirty years of existence. Ambiguous and unjust times, which follow a logic more appropriate to a dystopian novel than to the supportive and sustainable world in which we would like to live. As in the […]
