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A Point Full of Significance: Miguel Ángel Rojas

ENTREVISTA CON MIGUEL ÁNGEL ROJAS

Rose Mary Salum

Download Complete PDF / Descargar Rose Mary Salum: Your first works are simultaneously documents, manifestos and position papers. Your work contains materials strongly charged with ideology. Is it a myth for you to think…

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Guillermo Kuitca. The “Death of Painting” Painting as a Resistance Movement

Mari Carmen Ramírez

Images courtesy of the Sperone Westwater Gallery Guillermo Kuitca’s work has received significant international attention since 1985, when he represented Argentina in the XVIII São Paulo Biennal. He soon became…

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Raimund Girke: The German Informel. The Union of Opposing Tendencies

Benjamin Lima

Images courtesy of the Gallery Sonja Roesch Light in Rest and Motion:Raimund Girke’s painterly investigations The oeuvre of the German painter Raimund Girke (1930-2002) is a case of study…

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Kinderwunsch (niños y deseo)

Ana Casas Broda

El desarrollo de Kinderwunsch comprende un largo periodo de tiempo y la selección que aquí presento es una pequeña parte del proyecto. A lo largo del último año también he…

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Gustavo Díaz: The Art of Questioning

Gustavo Díaz: El arte de interrogar

Rose Mary Salum

We had the opportunity to talk to Gustavo Díaz, one of the most promising artists in that country. …

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A Life Involved (Part I)

Fernando Castro

Part I: Read between the lines People in the world of photography —from Buenos Aires to Beijing— are familiar with Wendy Watriss. Most of them know her and her lifetime partner,…

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A Life Involved (Part II)

Fernando Castro

Part II: A completely foreign country After her adventurous African journey in 1970 Wendy Watriss came back to New York to publish her stories and photographs. There she met Frederick…

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Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art:

Mari Carmen Ramírez

Special thanks to the MFAH The Project Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art (ICAA Documents Project)is a long-term archival, editorial, and bibliographic enterprise dedicated to the recovery and…

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Pedro Meyer: Street Photography

Fernando Castro R.

Pedro Meyer: Reverse Exoticism Download Complete PDF / Descargar Pedro Meyer’s contribution to photography is not only stricto sensu photographic. Meyer was the founder of the Consejo Mexicano de Fotografía, one of the…

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Ana Serrano: Salon of Beauty

Ebony Porter

Judging a Neighborhood by Cover: Salon of Beauty by Ana Serrano Download Complete PDF / Descargar Ana Serrano’s latest work Salon of Beauty replicates the eclectic and funky buildings, façades and signage typically found…

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Graciela Hasper: The Animated Forms

John Zotos

Graciela Hasper: Abstract Geometries, Color, and Public Space Download Complete PDF / Descargar The ongoing dialog surrounding abstraction in painting has kept up with, if not surpassed, the equally never-ending polemics about the end…

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Living Stillness: Pablo Gimenez Zapiola

José Antonio Simón

“These Animations Are Built in a Way That Makes Them Seem Endless” Activate Recall: Pablo Giménez Zapiola Download Complete PDF / Descargar Pablo Giménez Zapiola is a recipient of City-funded…