UN PUENTE ENTRE DOS CULTURAS

Frida Kahlo est devenue plus familière aux amateurs d’art après la sortie d’un film sur sa vie. Son OEuvre n’en reste pas moins compliqué dans son approche et sa compréhension. L’auteur, Gerry Souter, avec délicatesse et talent, explore les aspects les plus intimes de l’artiste et de ses oeuvres en alternant vie et création, danger et exaltation. Un livre d’art qui se lit comme un roman.

Plantas, flores, frutos, animales terrestres, voladores o acuáticos, criaturas fantásticas. La naturaleza, en sus múltiples y variadas formas y representaciones, aparece por doquier en la historia del arte, ya sea como el elemento central de una pintura o bien como un detalle que a primera vista tal vez nos pasa inadvertido pero que puede llegar a ser fundamental para la adecuada interpretación de una obra - el jacinto, que es un símbolo de Cristo, simboliza la prudencia y la sabiduría; la granada simboliza la castidad, la virginidad; la manzana es el símbolo de la tentación y la...

This in-depth look at Latin American art explores the complexity of the contemporary aesthetic and cultural milieu in this vast and diverse region of the world, focusing on a critical re-reading of the Baroque in Latin America and its curious function as an important cultural metaphor. The diversity of artists represented--hailing from South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United States--serves to critique and recuperate this concept of the Baroque that has become increasingly clichéd and misunderstood. With art by Ruben Ortiz Torres, Miguel Calderon, Rochelle Costi, Arturo Duclos,...

Metamembrana is an interactive audiovisual installation which consists of a projection and various interfaces, a landscape full of situations enabling the spectator to choose which route to follow and construct his/her own story. Drawings, murals, actors, fire dances, aesthetic irreality, etc. make up the formal narrative of this particular project and the elements around which the spectator must play with. Technology applied into arts, Antnez integrates more complex and sophisticated technological resources in his projects.