Art Documentaries
Documentaries have long been appreciated, not so much for their objective approach to reality, but for being formats that can play (in the broadest sense of the word) with truthfulness and, at the same time, approach the making of or reveal the mechanisms of systems. The documentary genre (although it would be more accurate to […]
Empathy
Empathy ADN Blog …And nature recovered its lost ground: fish in Venice’s canals, deer in the middle of the roads, coyotes on the streets of San Francisco, wild plants pushing their way up through concrete, cleaner air and less noise pollution in cities… The idea was not to leave anyone behind… But it was […]
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. […]