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Mateo Maté, decanonizing the canon

Give back to the art what the power took from him could be one of the mottos that guide the projects of Mateo Maté. But since «great art» has along the history been venal, easily bribed, an instrument of propaganda…, its restitutions can not but be ironic. Just as the concept of «camouflage» had served the artist to establish correspondences between the Impressionist landscape and the mimetic tactics of military power, he now takes the […]