When the temperatures are around 45 degrees, Extremadura is napping until sunset. Shutters remain closed, the streets empty… We have just left behind the small town of Malpartida and we already drive on a path of gravel crossed by capricious granite formations that precede what a little further will make up the curvilinear «skyline» of Los Barruecos. Erosion, a patient sculptor, has been modeling this stone universe over the centuries. When reflected in the pools, […]
Andy Warhol wanted to be a machine, decoupling the artistic work from the human pulse, to eliminate the brushstroke. Alejandro Bombín wants to humanize the machine, recover the gesture, a margin for error. Between one and the other the digital revolution took place, making all of us massive producers of images, fulfilling the dream of the pop art master. We live in a democratizing media utopia (or dystopia, depending on the point of view), in […]
Andy Warhol quería ser una máquina, desvincular el quehacer artístico del pulso humano, eliminar la pincelada. Alejandro Bombín quiere humanizar la máquina, recuperar el gesto, el margen de error. Entre uno y otro aconteció la revolución digital que nos convirtió a todos en productores masivos de imágenes, cumpliéndose el sueño del portavoz del pop art. Llegados a este punto de utopía (o distopía) democratizadora, en el que nos asalta un torbellino infinito de imágenes sin […]
