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 […]
Walter Benjamin señaló la paradoja que plantea para el espíritu humanista el rechazo de la violencia bajo cualquier de sus formas y al mismo tiempo su justificación como medio para luchar contra una situación opresiva. La violencia divina es aquella que se esgrime prometiendo un nuevo orden liberador, un mañana que solo se conquistará instaurando represión, lo que engendra otro ciclo de terror en aras de la liberación, y así el loop se eterniza hasta el […]
Walter Benjamin pointed out the paradox that poses for the humanist spirit the rejection of violence under any of its forms and at the same time its justification as a means to fight against an oppressive situation. The “divine violence” is that which is wielded promising a new liberating order, a tomorrow that will only be conquered by establishing repression, which engenders another cycle of terror for the sake of liberation, and thus the loop […]
A wooden house in a Canadian forest inhabited with maples and polar bears, isolated from the world except for the macabre news that broadcast a radio as stringing fragments of cruel tales. Howls of wolf and shots of hunters interrupt sometimes the announcer voice. A teenage boy in his pajamas, wrapped in his bed, gazes at the snowy meadows through the fogged glass of the window. He gets up at midnight, takes a piece of paper and […]
The mind of Paula Rego works as an alchemical still. She has the hability to absorb, distill and transmute essences of life and fable in which her literary readings reactivate hidden “reefs” of the subconscious. She composes visual stories in which remnants of personal and collective history, dream and memory, intertwine in each other, forming dense plots that trap us, not so much by the narration itself as by the way of joining together. Halfway […]
