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 […]
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 […]
