Articles of ‘Hardcore Art Contemporary Space’

Andrés Michelena - The truth will set you free

Hardcore Art Contemporary Space
Wynwood Art District, Miami
By Yuleina Barredo
If in fact Andrés Michelena (Caracas, 1963) recognizes that his oeuvre is thematically and stylistically lacking in a constant, continuity could be established in the reflective intentions that accompany his artistic work. The skeptical and ironic attitude, which the artist assumes when he argues about religion, esotericism [...]



Love Stories & Claude Guenard, at Hardcore Art Contemporary Space

April 11 - June 6, 2009
Opening April 11, 2009, Hardcore Art Contemporary Space presents “Love Stories” in collaboration with the Spanish Cultural Center (CCE) and a solo exhibition by French artist Claude Guenard.
Hardcore Art Contemporary Space unites its efforts with CCE, the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AECID), the VISIBLE Collection and Gay [...]



Julie López, Andrés Michelena, Anne Brunet, Luis Salazar & Alexis W at Hardcore Art Contemporary Space

Opening reception February 14, 2009
The exhibitions run through April 2009
Opening February 14, for Gallery Walk @ Wynwood, HACS introduces us to Julie Lopez’s exhibit “It tastes like chicken.” López, a local Miami artist with an extensive multi-media body of work, tells us in her own words “the figures that inhabit my worlds on canvas or [...]



Jonathan Stein & Carl Pascuzzi: A Slice of the Action

Hardcore Art Contemporary Space, Wynwood Art District - Miami
October 11 through December 2008
By Arelys Hernández
The ”culture of the spectacle” and the “aesthetic of advertising” increasingly occupy the realm of artistic production. Since the era of Pop Art and the pictorial Hard Core of the western United States, the visual arts have been invaded by symbols of [...]



Identity, Creation and New Media

By Janet Batet
If we had to define our contemporary culture, quickly and without giving it much thought; words, such as, interactivity, zapping, speed, play, simulation, would immediately emerge. Since the beginning of the 90s, the appearance and accelerated development of what is known as “new technology” has altered our perception, our interaction and, of course, [...]



Jonathan Stein and Carl Pascuzzi: A Slice of the Action & Irene Pressner: 80 to 150 times a second, at Hardcore Art Contemporary Space,Miami

From October 11 - November 22, 2008, HACS will exhibit the work of Jonathan Stein and Carl Pascuzzi in “A Slice of the Action”; also, Irene Pressner’s first solo exhibition in Miami showing: “80 to 150 times a second.”
“A Slice of The Action” will transform a 3000 square ft gallery space into a wall-to-wall faux [...]



Julianne Rose / Flesh and Plastic

By Raisa Clavijo
With vast experience in advertising photography, Julianne Rose, an Australian artist residing in Paris, constructs a discourse in which she criticizes the harmful effects of rampant consumerism and the manipulatory strategies of the advertising industry in the formation of human beings’ identities.
Her photographs and sculptures are based on childhood as the fundamental and [...]



Grimanesa Amorós - Interview

By: Raisa Clavijo
Grimanesa Amorós is an artist who enjoys well-deserved international acclaim. Her work demonstrates an interest in sociology, anthropology and scientific research, especially in the fields of biology and genetics.
Through her work she touches on universal themes of concern to contemporary individuals, such as: the relationship between man and nature, personal and social identity, [...]