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 [...]
Bass Museum of Art - Miami
April 17-August 16, 2009
By Janet Batet
“…an apple tree has to make apples so
I’m just making what I am making.
I don’t know what it’s called,
it’s a fruit that hasn’t been named yet,
but it’s not art.”
Bert Rodriguez Interview at Artlurker.com (July, 2008)
With the arrival of spring, everything is reborn and so it [...]
James Cohan Gallery - New York
April 14 - May 30, 2009
By Janet Batet
Nam June Paik is an emblematic figure for contemporary arts. Known as one of the major exponents of the Fluxus movement and a pioneer of video art, his visionary notion about arts and technology as well as his continued exploration in the perception [...]
Art@Work - Miami
January 31 - April 30, 2009
By Janet Batet
Steven Gagnon’s Border Cruiser has been running around since 2007. Participating in important art events such as Art Basel Miami Beach, his patrol car has been exhibited at Locus Project in Miami, the Art Car Museum in Houston, in the Twelfth International FotoFest Biennial, and lately [...]
“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 [...]
Freedom Tower - Downtown Miami
February 5 - March 7, 2009
By Janet Batet
We live in a vortex, trapped between the ridiculous and odd geographical border concept -derived from the modern notion of nation- and the globalization era. We try day after day to rearrange our identities and desires. That is the spirit behind “Identidades y Fronteras [...]
By Janet Batet
Now it appears clear. The spatial axis has been definitively replaced by the temporal axis, which establishes itself in our modernity as the only true tie that binds us to our contemporaries. Within this new errant experience that now confronts a global culture marked by constant flux (the flow of migration, travel, information, [...]
By Janet Batet
We met Alexis Hubshman, director and promoter of Scope Art Fair and founder of Art Asia -Miami’s first Asian contemporary art fair- during his November 18-20 visit to Miami, hours prior to his talk at the Miami Art Museum Art Fair Survival Party, on the occasion of the inauguration of the 7th edition [...]
By Janet Batet
The fall of the Socialist block signified a radical change in contemporary culture. The pretexts underlying its credos collapsed before our very eyes. The distinctly polarized world we were accustomed to made way for a new era. The fundamental axes around which we had built our dreams, our ambitions, our cosmogonies and our [...]
“Behold the good and just! Whom do they hate most?
Him who breaketh up their tables of values,
the breaker, the lawbreaker:
- he, however, is the creator.”
Federic Nietzche. Thus spoke Saratustra.
By Janet Batet
Martin Kippenberger is a controversial, uninhibited, eccentric figure with an impressive level of energy and synergy. Creator, project developer and social agitator, his work cannot [...]
