In the pictorial universe of Santiago Ydáñez the snow is never virgin, the children are not innocent, the human tends to bestiality, the statue acquires carnal morbidity and the living flesh is mummified. The animal oscillates between the tenderness and the monstrous, becomes a haunting metaphor like the winter landscape, idyllic and at the same time atrocious. Inveterate collector and lover of Baroque carvings, Santiago does not hesitate to visit the assorted churches of virgins […]
Aparentemente el saber avanza de la oscuridad a la luz, de lo desconocido a lo conocido, de lo innombrable a lo catalogable, pero toda verdad desenterrada echa tierra sobre otras verdades posibles. Todo consenso soterra disensos. Sea con la intención de sesgar episodios incómodos de la Historia o para defender la supuesta objetividad científica, sea con fines lucrativos o propagandísticos, el poder se ejercita sepultando viejos fantasmas a fin de poder inventar de nuevos. Florencia […]
Apparently, knowledge draws on from darkness to light, from the unknown to the known, from the unnameable to the catalogable, but all truth unearthed buries other possible truths. All consensus hides dissent. Whether it is intended to bias uncomfortable episodes of history or to defend assumed scientific objectivity, whether for profit or propaganda purposes, power is exercised by burying old ghosts in order to invent new ones. Florencia Rojas, in contrast, exhumates forgotten ghosts, moves […]
Lee Lozano fue una artista que no quiso ser una pieza más en el engranaje del arte, que por sus ovarios llegó a elegir qué tipo de comprador eran adecuados para adquirir obra suya; decidió donde, cómo y cuando exponer; fijó el momento de encumbrar su carrera y el plazo para finiquitarla. Tozuda e irreverente, en 1970 logró mostrar en el museo más prestigioso de Nueva York una serie que había ideado especialmente para este […]
Lee Lozano was an artist who didn’t want to be one more piece in the gear of art, who by her blood and guts came to choose what type of buyer were suitable to acquire her work; who decided where, how and when to exhibit; who fixed the moment of get to the top of her career and the term to finish it. Stubborn and irreverent, in 1970 managed to show in the most prestigious […]
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 […]
David Trullo viaja al pasado una y otra vez. Lo ha hecho recolectando flashes visuales que de algún modo contribuyeron a forjar su personalidad (Timewarp), reconstruyendo episodios mutilados por el discurso heteronormativo (Una historia verdadera)… Ahora, en sus dos exposiciones en curso repasa la iconografía queer haciéndola dialogar con piezas del Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas (Queer cabinet) y trazando una genealogía homoerótica personal impregnada de lirismo e ironía a partes iguales (Souvenirs). Lo cierto […]
The equivalence between art and life, the will to make life a matter of art in order to question inertia and patterns of behavior was decisive in the happening of the seventies, in the actions of Fluxus, in the first wave of feminism … However, during the last third of the twentieth century, the theme of motherhood was a burden for women artists, obsessed in their struggle to escape from the domestic sphere to which […]
