News symbiosis between “they and us” Animals have had a privileged place in art since prehistoric times. The figurative painting is born invoking bison and bovids in cave rites. Recent cave discoveries reveal that dog domestication might have started even before the Neolithic. In sedentary societies, religious celebrations and sacrificial rites take over from the hunting rites, while birds and quadrupeds of all kinds take their place in the divine pantheons of the great cultures. The […]
Nuevas simbiosis entre “ellos y nosotros” Los animales han gozado de un lugar privilegiado en el arte desde tiempos prehistóricos. La pintura figurativa nace invocando a bisontes y bóvidos en ritos cavernarios. Descubrimientos rupestres recientes revelan que la domesticación canina debió empezar incluso antes del neolítico. Con el sedentarismo, fiestas y cultos sacrificiales tomaron el relevo de los antiguos ritos de caza, al tiempo que aves y cuadrúpedos de toda índole ocuparon su lugar en […]
Hypocrisy, a street which both begins and ends in the world, and there is scarcely anyone who doesn’t have, if not a house, then at least rooms or temporary lodgings along the length of it. A suspicious old man and a trusting young one walk to this main street of the world to observe closely habits and customs of their peers. To cross certain thresholds to see The world from inside, as Quevedo did in […]
Llámase Hipocresía la calle que empieza con el mundo y se acabará con él; y no hay casi nadie que no tenga, si no una casa, un cuarto o un aposento en ella. Hacia esa calle se dirigen un suspicaz anciano y un joven ingenuo para observar de cerca la ruindad que se esconde tras los usos y costumbres de sus coetáneos. Franquear ciertos umbrales para ver El mundo por dentro, como hizo Quevedo en […]
El entretenimiento en su fase más avanzada ya no se sustenta tanto en la evasión como en la parquematización de emociones extremas. Sobre ello elucubró Bruce Bégout en su novela Le Park, acerca de una isla transformada en resort no apto para el turismo masivo, en el que los visitantes podían satisfacer sus deseos más perversos. Mazmorras en sótanos de casinos, peligrosas selvas y arquitectura neurobiológica contribuían a colmar su morbosa sed de espectáculo. Los […]
Entertainment in its most advanced state is no longer supported by evasion but rather by the exploitation of extreme emotions. Bruce Bégout speculated about it in his novel Le Park, about an island transformed into a resort not suitable for mass tourism, in which visitors could satisfy their most perverse desires. Dungeons in casinos basements, dangerous jungles and neurobiological architecture contributed to fill their morbid thirst for spectacle. The nouveau riche who participate in the […]
It is so respectable to wake up and worry about “what I should wear” as reflecting on whether a sculpture has the proper shape, material and scale. I dare say that sometimes it’s the same exercise. This statement, which I rescued from a lecture given by Ana Laura Aláez in Arteleku, gives us the key to understanding the start of her career as artist and her evolution. For her, self-expression (first in the dressing room) […]
