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Tomás Saraceno: Celestial Utopia

Jeffrey Bowen

THE UTOPIAN Download Complete PDF / Descargar Colossal clusters of inflated plastic spheres, banded together with polyester nets and anchored to the floor, walls and ceiling. Countless chromogenic prints of vast, earthly atmospheres…

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Young, Fresh and New Artists from Switzerland

Catherine Cochard

Download Complete PDF / Descargar The Swiss contemporary art scene looks like the country itself: a forest of emerging artists surrounded by mountain stars, making it hard to perfectly see each of them…

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Víctor Rodríguez: Realismo conceptual

Tanya Huntington

Respresentar es una necesidad humana CONVERSACIÓN CON VÍCTOR RODRÍGUEZ Download Complete PDF / Descargar Tanya Huntington Hyde: ¿Qué tienes proyectado para los diez años siguientes? Víctor Rodríguez: No tengo planes tan a largo…

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Gabriel de la Mora: Universality of the Form

La forma

Carmen Cebreros

GABRIEL DE LA MORA. THE PLEASURE OF VISUAL PERCEPTION [Translated by Debra D. Andrist] Restless and prolific, Gabriel de la Mora (1968) has explored a broad expanse of mediums and props throughout his…

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Cyborg Consciousness in the art of Wangechi Mutu

Lissette Olivares

The Prosthetics of Feminity Tropes of Futurity Wangechi Mutu Download Complete PDF / Descargar In the early 21st century, our time, a critical time, we are all cyborgs–cybernetic organisms–cross breeds in…

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The Poetics of Systems

Dieter Balzer

Download Complete PDF / Descargar Dieter Balzer has developed his own modular system that allows for multiple combinations of identical elements. In this system, the elements relate to one another in such a…

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Constructing Abstraction with Wood: Joaquín Torres-García

Cecilia de Torres

Download Complete PDF / Descargar When the exhibition Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood opens on September 25th at The Menil in Houston, it will be the museum’s first individual show dedicated to a…

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The Flow of Narrative Through Sequential Images: Curtis Gannon

Rose Mary Salum

In Comics, Time Is Always Now Download Complete PDF / Descargar Rose Mary Salum: You’ve collected comics since you were a kid. It seems that you’ve found a way of expression through them.…

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I Don’t Do Anything. The Light Does It for Me: A Conversation with Francesca Bellini Joseph

Luis Tomasello

Download Complete PDF / Descargar During the Modern Age, there were many artists who immigrated to Paris, seduced by its vibrant artistic scene. Latin Americans were no exception and in the Fifties, the now-recognized…

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The City as Obsessed: Phil Kelly

David Lida

A Paint Reads a City Download Complete PDF / Descargar Not long ago, while sitting in an outdoor café a couple of blocks from the Alameda of Santa María la Ribera, painter…

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Minerva Cuevas: The Construction of Reality

La construcción de la realidad

Carmen Cebreros Urzaiz

Minerva Cuevas thoroughly exemplifies what it means to be a “citizen of the world” in the contemporary moment. Constantly on the move from city to city, her work processes arise out of temporary…

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Words and Things: Rosana Ricalde

Las palabras y las cosas

Luciano Vinhosa

Traducción de Anahí Ramírez Alfaro Time Changes Everything Other authors have noticed that in Rosana Ricalde’s work, the instability between verbal syntax and visual structure expounds the image to the limit of the receiver’s…