OBSESSIONS: ZERO % STANDARD
In these increasingly standardised times in which the mass media holds sway, our individual space of action and definition is becoming more and more limited and subject to strict codes. There is only the mirroring of a space for individual presentation, which in fact allows us to act more as consumers than as private persons. […]
DEPICTING LOVE (ESP)
SOBRE DEPICTING LOVE En estos momentos, el amor no es uno de los principales temas de reflexión, aunque se vincule a nociones como la identidad, las relaciones personales y sociales o las implicaciones políticas. Las aproximaciones científicas sobre el tema nos lo hacen ver como una noción relativa. Con sus investigaciones y explicaciones sobre el […]
SIMON STARLING. Exposition
Simon Starling (Epson, England, 1967) bases his work on thorough investigation, which includes constant travel, meticulous research and establishing connections between places, objects and historical and cultural circumstances. He often contrasts structures or dynamics, both literally and metaphorically, and concludes with processes that involve the transformation of an object or substance into something else altogether […]
CLAUDE CLOSKY. U
Claude Closky (Paris, 1963) likes to question the use of signs and make a play on their appearance. The issue of identity and the conventions of representation constitute the central thread of his artistic explorations. In a way that is both light-hearted and obsessive, he shows how the potential combinations of different media and the […]
MEDIASCAPES
Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without the knowledge of the way media reshape our environment. We are more and more used to wars that are initiated in primetime, to presidents who visit the troops for Thanksgiving with fake Turkeys, to football players who are more glamorous and photogenic than good players, […]
ANTONIO ORTEGA. Faith and Entusiasm
The work of Antonio Ortega (Sant Celoni, 1968) deals with social behaviour and social dynamics. He often creates «records», employing a strategy similar to that of a fable, with easily recognisable reference points to exemplify or illustrate different situations. For instance, in Record of frailty (1966) he forced a plant to grow inside a long […]
JENS HAANING. Antonio, Aurangzeab, Deniz, Ecevit, Faysal, Hakan, Murat, Oemer, Radovan, Sambas, Shabeer and Dennis
The work of Jens Haaning (Copenhagen, 1965) focuses on the composition of our society and on strategies for communication and for expressing power. The notion of «frontier» to determine the idea of belonging or exclusion is fundamental to his discourse. Haaning explores the complexity of cultural assimilation from two points of view: that of the […]
LUIS BISBE. Pin-pan-pum
The projects conceived by Luis Bisbe (Malaga, 1965) are very often based on an out-of-the-ordinary perception of space. At times he achieves this by making spatial drawings, produced with elastic bands and steel cables that criss-cross the room from wall to wall. These drawings create columns and doorways (Pilot apartment, Galería Salvador Díaz, Madrid, 2001, […]
ANGLE OF VISION: 143o. Objects in the rear view mirror are closer than they appear (ENG)
One of the principal features of present-day artistic proposals is that they raise more questions than they answer when it comes to the mechanisms needed to make us change, or at least question, our perception of things, our perception of the world in which we live and our perception of our own selves. If we […]
ANGLE OF VISION: 143o. Objects in the rear view mirror are closer than they appear
One of the principal features of present-day artistic proposals is that they raise more questions than they answer when it comes to the mechanisms needed to make us change, or at least question, our perception of things, our perception of the world in which we live and our perception of our own selves. If we […]
