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 […]
David Trullo travels to the past again and again. It has done so by collecting visual flashes that somehow contributed to forge his personality (Timewarp), reconstructing episodes mutilated by the heteronormative speech (A true history) … Now, in his two current expositions reviews the queer iconography confronting with pieces of the National Museum of Decorative Arts (Queer cabinet) and tracing a personal homoerotic genealogy impregnated with lyricism and irony in equal parts (Souvenirs). The truth […]
