By Natalie Sciortino-Rinehart
Fare Mondi // Making Worlds, the 53rd Venice Biennale presents an extensive arsenal of works from over ninety international artists. The Biennale also heralds a record number of 44 Collateral Events proposed by international groups. Curated by Daniel Birnbaum, the main exhibition’s multiple themes converge into an overarching gestalt exploring many creational forces. [...]
By Lara Pan in collaboration with Bjorn Scherlippens
Torre, the first piece of monumental architecture to come out of Wim Delvoyes’ workshop, has a made a strong debut at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Installed over the course of this year’s Venice Biennial, the 10 meter tall tower arose just a stone’s throw away from the tourist [...]
By Ernesto Menéndez-Conde
Altermodern is the new term the French curator Nicolas Bourriaud proposed for understanding our present. The recent Tate Triennial (London, February-April, 2009) was devoted to consecrating, or at least putting this concept into circulation. In the introduction to the catalogue Nicolas Bourriaud wrote:
“The terms ‘MODERN,’ ‘POSTMODERN,’ ‘ALTERMODERN’ do not define styles [...]
By Janet Batet
The duo comprised of Tasha López De Victoria and Mónica López De Victoria, 26 and 28 years old respectively, aka the TM Sisters, has been achieving a series of successes that have caused the couple, in the short lapse of four years, to become two of the most fussed over artistic figures of [...]
By Ernesto Menéndez-Conde
“My drawings are born through the communion between the material and the spiritual,
wherein my own self is constantly reflected emptying itself.”
Sun K. Kwak, 2007
Many scholars are seeing Postmodernism as a moment that already belongs to the past. They have suggested that we are entering a qualitatively different type of cultural production, in [...]
By Maja Horn
Recently, I had the opportunity to coincide again with the renowned Guatemalan performance artist and poet Regina J. Galindo (1974) at the international performance event “Performar” (www.performar.blogspot.com) in the Dominican Republic, organized by the collective Arte-Estudio and the Centro Cultural de España. We had both lived for extended periods of time in the [...]
By Lourdes Morales
“ Grant me health, Lord; grant me rest, grant me well-being and I will be blessed “
One of the pieces of jewelry in the series, Ajuste de Cuentas 15 (titled by the artist, “Score Settling 15“), is comprised of a rectangular pendant that shows in high relief the bust of the patron saint of drug [...]
By Claire Breukel
Aside from being renowned for his unique art style, twenty-eight year old Daniel Arsham left his impression on Miami, cofounding two prolific artist-run spaces, The House and Placemaker. This experience combined with Arsham’s architectural background progressively informed his art practice, organically moving between aspects of art, architecture and more recently theater. His sculptures [...]
By Héctor Antón Castillo
Integration and resistance in the global era was the curatorial mainstay of the Tenth Havana Biennial (March 27 - April 30, 2009). What dreams do excluded victims of geographic fatalism harbor? How can we recognize a masochistic utopia (or long-lived nightmare) that conceals political demagoguery? Can a renewed outbreak of identity neuroses [...]
“The world thereby momentarily loses its depth
and threatens to become a glossy skin,
a stereoscopic illusion,
a rush of filmic images without density.
But is this now a terrifying or
an exhilarating experience?”
Fredric Jameson [1]
By Janet Batet
To hell with the sublime? That’s not acceptable. It’s just that desire pushes us towards rudeness. Why the compulsive need to swear? Why [...]
