Rizomes
If 2020 is teaching us anything, it is that we urgently need to review the social-natural contract, and not only that, we should also learn from the capacity of adaptation and evolution of some animals and assimilate more complex models of intelligence. We have seen it in nature and we see it in society. The […]
Media Landscapes and presidential elections
Media Landscapes and presidential elections Our horizon is defined by media landscapes. Natural landscapes (landscapes) were followed by urban landscapes (urbanscapes) and for decades it has been the media landscapes (mediascapes) that define and determine our present. Muntadas is one of the artists who has exhaustively analyzed the media landscape in his works. In […]
Ecosystems
Ecosystems Maria Acha Kutscher. Herstorymuseum. Permission de Travestment, 2020
Ephemeral drawings made with permanent marker
We already knew that reality surpasses fiction, but the script for this year 2020 is difficult to assimilate: pandemics, global economic crisis, inequalities, racism, fascism, psychopaths presiding over some of the most powerful countries in the world… Between disbelief, gravity and helplessness, the need for a routine that structures our daily life often wins. We […]
Time, artists and mid-career exhibitions
Almost everything is a question of time. How important time is and how little we respect it! Always running, without distinguishing between what is urgent and what is important. In art, time is essential so that artists can develop their lines of research, can make tests, make mistakes and find solutions. How gratifying and exciting […]
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 […]
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 […]
