The practice of appropriation is to apply an ecological sense to art, to recycle signs and forms from the past, often with the intention of desecrating icons, subverting canons, resignifying what used to be true in distant times. Javier Díaz Guardiola, Carmen González Castro and Nino Maza, a triad of curators of which the latter two also participate with their pieces, invite ten artists to “rewind and remaster” tongue in cheek. The hair of the […]
La práctica de la apropiación consiste en aplicar el sentido ecológico al arte, reciclar signos y formas del pasado, siendo a menudo su intención profanar iconos, subvertir cánones, resignificar verdades enquistadas en las brumas de los tiempos. Rebobinar y remasterizar con alevosía es lo que una tríada comisarial formada por Javier Díaz Guardiola, Carmen González Castro y Nino Maza proponen a diez artistas, entre los que los dos últimos se incluyen. Al perro faldero de […]
We imagine the Carmen González Castro‘s studio full of volumes of art history scattered here and there among her paintings, each page glossed with pencil notes, underlined and studs. Because his artistic task has always been to comb the story against the grain, appropriating certain pictorial resources or certain foundational myths to rewrite them with her own pulse. Her playful and transgressive spirit leads her to dwell on the most ingenious techniques that painting has […]
