Articles of ‘ARTPULSE’

Silver. A Conversation with Jon Field

Silver. A Conversation with Jon Field

Artist Jon Field pushes hundreds of thousands of dress pins into yards of black velvet to translate imagery from popular culture into surprising pictures. These reincarnated images of prejudiced materials detach into space, they shimmer, almost radiant, as light plays off pins, as the viewer moves and as the perception shifts from the [...]



Interview with Gamaliel Rodríguez

Interview with Gamaliel Rodríguez

“I often see progress as retrogression.”
Puerto Rican artist Gamaliel Rodríguez (1977, Bayamon) has from the very beginning achieved a particularly recognizable style. His eerie and intriguing work deals with concepts like memory, history and vigilance and is rather “un-Caribbean” in style.

By Paco Barragán
Paco Barragán - Puerto Rico is a small island with [...]



Calculating Uncertainty. A Conversation with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Calculating Uncertainty. A Conversation with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is a Mexican media artist based in Montreal, Québec, who has been developing interactive installations for over two decades. He was the first artist to represent Mexico in the Venice Biennale, in 2007, with a solo show that included his biometric installation Pulse Room: a room composed of hundreds of clear [...]



Push to Flush: Political Dali. Communism, Falangism, and Francoism in Salvador Dali’s Life

Push to Flush: Political Dali. Communism, Falangism, and Francoism in Salvador Dali's Life

By Paco Barragán
If we study photographs, articles, manuscripts, books, letters and Salvador Dalí’s autobiography we can easily come to the conclusion that as of today Dalí’s political life is still greatly unknown by most art professionals due to the fact that all exhibits and retrospectives-think of Pompidou and Museo Reina Sofia or the [...]



The Real Thing / Interview with Oliver Laric

In the past few months, when people have asked me to suggest something inspiring to read, I’ve always replied: “Go to oliverlaric.com and select Versions.” True, Oliver Laric is not a writer but an artist, and Versions is not an essay but a video-or, better, an ongoing art project involving two videos, “a series of [...]



No. 29 Vol. 8 Year 2017

No. 29  Vol. 8  Year 2017