Fernando Casas, Before Oneself
This collection of paintings by Fernando Casas closely resembles a set of portraits. But if that were the case, they would have to be the kind of portrait that hides…
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Fernando Botero: A dimension of portliness
It was probably in New York and in the early seventies when I first saw Fernando Botero's paintings. I cannot remember exactly which ones, but I recall what may arguably…
Whispers and Silence: Tania Bruguera, Raul Castro and Performance Art in Cuba
Three times recently we were reminded that art can still stir the pot in our blasé 21st century: with the censorship and delayed release of the B movie The Interview,…
Jasmine Rossi: Sublime
Nature photography is a photographic mode that inevitably changes the photographer. At the very least, photographers develop an appreciation for the beauty of the natural world; at the very best,…
Mercedes Pardo, the harmony of colors
Mercedes Pardo
"Upon seeing her, I felt that desire to live which is reborn in us whenever we become conscious of beauty and of happiness." Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove …
Patricia Sicardi, a road to Cadaqués
"You have to give it your all." Patricia Sicardi (1948-2024) Patricia Sicardi's studio, 2018 (photo by the author) By the time Patricia Sicardi moved to Cadaqués in 2005, Salvador…
Sebastián Gordín: two of us
"Soy medio contrabandista también; en el sentido de que hay ciertas cosas que están un poquito ocultas bajo varias capas". (I am also a bit of a smuggler —in the…
JORINDE VOIGT: INSIDE INSIGHT
Shadows and dyads (sic), Jorinde Voigt’s April exhibit at Sicardi Ayers Bacino Gallery features several important works by the Berlin-based artist. On first impression an educated viewer of Voigt’s current…
La Suprema Corte y el plagio
El libro tenía un pequeño inconveniente: reprodujo, verbatim, dos capítulos de mi libro El manto liberal (UNAM, 2001). En apariencia el plagio, una vez descubierto en 2017 y denunciado ante…
XUL SOLAR (1887-1963)
Translucency and Opacity "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child." Pablo Picasso Sixteen years have passed since the exhibit…
Elsa Gramcko: The Path of Intuition, Form, and Things
The moment on September 1912 when Georges Braque decided to paste a piece of wallpaper onto his painting Fruit dish and glass was pivotal in the history of 20th century…
Gustavo Díaz: the Fuzzy Garden
Confronting silence by uttering a sound is nothing but verifying one’s own existence. Toru Takemitsu Gustavo Díaz's exhibit Confronting Silence at Sicardi Ayers Bacino Gallery featured a dozen large…