Monday, November 22, 2010

Victoria Secret No Boobs

Night of the Museums



In one of my first forays into the Throughout the long night of the museums we had in Buenos Aires on Saturday, came up House of Culture , where I fell almost by chance and I found a play called Unreal directed by Silvia Gómez Giusto. What initially caught my attention was the pamphlet, which cited a phrase from Fabiana Barreda, summarized below an argument that was promising.

work begins and the first thing you hear is the beauty of both players, he, rising artist who has just sold his first piece at Christie's, she, her gallery and amateur painter. The drama begins when, after he dismisses the artistic qualities of her, she asks him to reconsider his opinion and he confesses that the tables have been selling well at auction recently, they have been painted by herself, having forged signature supposedly so talented artist. He despairs at the time of this unexpected revelation, but to see the sales success and has become cope with the imminent arrival of a collector interested in "their" works, turns a blind eye to the matter.


Then comes the collector's mind Lord accompanied by wife and friends, to which all fall at his feet seeking approval and your checkbook. Author of a commentary stark when no itching said that his main concern was to invest, buy and sell works to have secured his old age, now that I was thinking of retiring from his job. The sentimental value that could establish their work was quite low, in the first place was the site where the artist in the sales ranking for a glimpse of how the price would be projected in the future.


From that time began to weave a number of intrigues between the characters that litter (or described) to an art world that is far from being so spiritual as he is painted.

Do not forget to consult the charts to see if the work is repeated elsewhere. But, warn and tell them the way!


Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Cheap Body Opponent Bag

Claims

days ago in The Parent Project Area is a talk that had the slogan the relationship between art and politics. Guests: Juan Carlos Romero, the performer Guadalupe Neves, Judith Villamayor belonging to the group Articultores, and Lux \u200b\u200bLindner, one of his colleagues who did know his surprise caused by his presence at that table when production art is not political. Or was, because we started a discussion in which criticism and art theory were not exempted. It turns out that Lindner came to inaugurate an exhibition at the Cultural Center Conti, recently opened to the public within the premises of the ESMA, and his confusion was considerable. " wanted to come here with a black eye, a black eye is the health of the nation!" bombed in one of his first interventions. His work there consisted of a panel perpendicular hanging from the ceiling, painted white and which highlight a range of character names that formed part of Argentina's history, names that the author hoped to generate some itching or discomfort to the guests at the banquet. " wanted someone asked me: why put those bastards in the play?" . But apparently all you got were cheers and pats on the shoulder, and his desire to be beaten by the public or any officer never came.

ensued Lux \u200b\u200bclaim growing intellectual deforestation, the lack of serious criticism and teaching to help guide the public in the proposals made by artists and in some cases are not readable at first sight. Nothing more, nothing less than the need for effective mediation and communication of the work. If found it wanted to fight there, because the two women present questioned his point of view. For both, working in a field more difficult to define with the old categories of art Lindner, the fact that they no longer had a potentate of the standing figure was a relief. Because, said Neves, who is the person who has the authority and power to put names to things and say what is good and what is not, in this case, much better than the artists are governed by their own rules (or lack thereof), before anyone comes to classify extrinsic. Villamayor also felt more comfortable in this situation because it is not necessary for any institution, critical media outlet legitimize their work, but it is she who is defined as an artist and self legitimate: "There is a problem of identity of the artist, has to be assumed as such, without waiting to be standing outside The only person who can be defined as an artist is the same person. And if the world were against, that's not a problem, all we have the world against it. " Romero quickly took aim at the abduction of wielding hippies that is fine, but "naive to think that everyone will get to live art. Must be regarded as a job he can get a way of life. If you are not within the artistic field, artist resources in your head or your friends . "

While Lindner was asking for someone who would act as the guidance from theory or in the works for an exhibition, the curator when the task is not clear or effective in this regard, what is power to it, also with interference of capitalism in all spheres, including in education, which leads us to organize conferences on Benjamin (the Coldplay of philosophy ") instead of studying or Argentine and Aníbal Ponce Monteagudo. Romero jumped neck saying "the work is discussed in the work, not to a book, you will not be traveling a sample reading a book "Lindner said to what is necessary to help contexts. "We should not treat people like an idiot not to steal the information."

Regarding this discussion, I adhere to this last statement, I believe the guardianship should provide elements to understand the linking of the proposed works to coincide with what he says Marta Dujovne about the objects speak for themselves only those that can be incorporated into a series of prior knowledge, the books may not be useful or comfortable when visiting a sample but later, when we help to decant all images incorporated into our mente. Además es difícil acceder a una obra tan hermética como la de Lindner contando sólo con la sensibilidad de espectadores primerizos. Habría que ver si acaso él también colabora en algún sentido para facilitar esta comunicación que reclama.

Ya era noche cerrada en Paternal, y Lux seguía pataleando contra el público de las exposiciones, los medios, los directores de museos: “Incluyo pruebas a ver si la gente está despierta, pero está roncando!” . No sé porqué, todos los presentes nos enderezamos precipitadamente en nuestros asientos.

Saturday, October 30, 2010

What Sign Is The Pinky And Thumb

Lux Lindner Art, art, live art for art! The second opinion





"What brings the daily work of the artist is that you pay, not get paid, you have to do because what you have inside, you're out of the soul"

Few artists whose names they manage to cross limits the field of art, and fewer still reach deep affection for the society in which they work. Marta Minujín is indisputably one of them, who has won the affection of the people and recognition as one of the most emblematic of the arts in Argentina in recent decades.

inserting a teenager in a field in which women recently came to join with only 21 became National Award winner, awarded by the legendary Di Tella Institute, thanks to a new installation composed of multi-colored painted mattresses, called "wallow and live." This would be only one of the first in a long list of awards and scholarships galardonarían a sabbatical or career without major discrepancies. Loading

against the idea of \u200b\u200bmyth as crystallized and frozen in time, planned a series of works where attacked and converted from different backgrounds, enriching their meaning: the architecture, creating new versions of the Obelisk Tower of James Joyce in Ireland and the Greek Parthenon, the popular musical and a huge sculpture by Carlos Gardel in Medellín, which set fire, and the arts, modeling busts of Venus de Milo, and then fragmenting it into slices to be falling.

As the main representative of the happening in Argentina since the 60's, Minujín has sought to break with the idea of \u200b\u200bthe passive spectator, actively including them in their actions, as in the latest Rayuelarte , where he invited people to rekindle their playfulness playing hopscotch in the middle of Avenida 9 de Julio and as a tribute to Julio Cortazar (the first happening in which I participated in person, since in the past or had been born!).

From 25 November at the Malba undertake the difficult task of performing a retrospective of his work, although well deserved, it becomes difficult to be an artist working in good proportion with ephemeral works, of which only remains a photographic record or film. We will see that we meet, gives me immense curiosity to know his paintings, probably its least known aspect and left behind long ago. Meanwhile I keep saying Marta "My art is based on surprising people in your area daily dislodged" , because if "disturbs you far inside. "

Thursday, September 9, 2010

White And Gold Greek Debs Dress





is difficult role of a critic. Much more when you have to take on an artist in a brilliantly lucid mind does not let even the slightest comment from his partner.
In the book of Pierre Bourdieu rules of art, it recreates an interview with Marcel Duchamp that always seemed funny and very problematical. In the texts of art, no longer abound the multiple interpretations that make theoretical works they see, looking intellectualize the work to its conclusion and especially an artist of such significance path, weaving and unraveling assumptions about each of the fragments that compose it.

In this conversation, transcribe it, then come deal of speculation in relation to their works, performances on their own and others over many details that the reporter no longer given to the grand master of conceptual art, being denied each and every one then by the same artist:

- Returning to his ready made, I thought R. Mutt, the signing of the Fountain was the name of the manufacturer. But in an article I read Rosalind Krauss: "R. Mutt, to points on the German armut, or poverty ". Poverty, that completely subvert the meaning of the Fountain .
- Rosalind Krauss? "The redhead? It is not that at all. You can deny it. Mutt comes from Mott Works, the name of a great company of instruments of hygiene. But Mott was too close, then turned it into Mutt, he had a comic strip that is published every day then, Mutt and Jef, everyone knew. There was thus from the beginning, a resonance. Mutt, chubby and funny, Jef, tall and thin ... I wanted a different name. And I added Richard ... Richard is fine for a urinal! You see, the opposite of poverty ... but even that, only A. R. Mutt.
- What is the possible interpretation of the bicycle wheel? Can we see in it the integration of movement in the work of art? Or a fundamental starting point, like the Chinese, who invented the wheel?
- This machine has no purpose, except to get rid of the appearance of the artwork. It was a fantasy. I did not call her "work of art." I wanted to finish with the desire to create works of art. (...)
- What about geometry book exposed to the weather? Can we say that it is the idea of \u200b\u200bintegrating time in space? "Playing with the term" geometry in space "and" time " Rain or shine, whose intervention would transform the book?
- No. Nor is the idea of \u200b\u200bintegrating movement in sculpture. It's just humor, unequivocally humor, humor. To denigrate the seriousness of a book of principles.


Sometimes things are simpler than they appear and try to complicate too the creative process always leads to no good purpose, as they rarely correspond to the procedures of an exact science.
I think there's some validity to what you said that once the work is done and exposed to public consideration, that work no longer belongs to its author. Since then his opinion is a more possible, perhaps the most authoritative and the next, yes, but one of thousands possible to enrich the final product.
After reading this interview, I would like to witness an anachronism, because I can not help wondering what it would be an interview conducted by Luis Majul Duchamp: for rent balcony!

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The virtues of the disparity

Borges was perhaps divining virtues? I had a crystal ball at home, or in the corner of a hidden staircase gleamed the famous aleph? Sometimes I think so. While partnerships often generate stories I herein may be much more bizarre than he ever could have imagined.

recently became virtually impossible to turn on the TV and escape the angled face of Fort and their furry coats. Passing through the RSM program, I learn that the producer Ideas del Sur was doing a double casting to find this man (for what? To make it more ubiquitous than it already is?). The camera shows a guy that barely scratches the 20 years, ensuring it is able to change her hairstyle, her voice and her appearance to look like chocolate. So far everything seems relatively normal, if not because the boy is blond, very skinny, long hair and a voice very keen to interpret the theme highest Bee Gees effortlessly. Although preferred Britney dance a single step uncoordinated.

In one of my favorite books of Borges, "A Universal History of Infamy," he told about becomings of Tom Castro, a guy a little bit light, which induced a certain Bogle, decides to respond to the request for a high-born lady, who not to believe in the death of his son, launched a campaign to find around the world. Castro is the very opposite may occur to both physical appearance and in its distinction and intellect to the young man disappeared at sea.
The reasoning is that someone trying to look like the original, would only increase the visibility of counterfeiting; would emphasize similarities over differences. The absurdity of the matter demonstrate that it was not a fraud. And this is how instead of "a slender gentleman air cladding, with sharp features, dark complexion, straight black hair, bright eyes and the word accuracy and upset," we appear to "a boor overflowing of vast abdomen, pulling a freckled complexion, brown curly hair, a friendly smile and a perfect idiot ignorance of the French language. "

Maybe sometime in the not too distant Blond guys see a black dyed foam muscles and posing as Ricardo Fort and not notice the difference. Overall this Finally it seems increasingly a caricature of himself. Although it would still be interesting to try to explain why such a strange attraction exerted on people. Andy Warhol
not seem to be wrong when he predicted that we would all have our 15 minutes of fame. What I did not say either is that the rest were going to have to endure.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Whats The Differencebetween Face Wax And Body Wax




Place works to eye level, says a basic formula mounting in recent decades. In previous centuries or talk, when the tables are piled on each other in the cabinets of curiosities like wild animals Zoo clamoring for the attention of visitors. One way of showing sustained for long, ends in turn generating a way of looking, we got used to and gives us security.

This assurance is what I lost in two recent samples had the pleasure of visiting. Walking around the first floor of Past / Present , Fundación Telefónica, after seeing the work of Nam June Paik, leaving things in the wardrobe, check catalogs and about to go upstairs, I saw it there first . Nestled on the floor, with a dead body but human facial expressions and gestures, sighs and smiles, was the first "dolls" by Tony Oursler, virtually hidden under the back of the ladder. I continued my tour and just hooked up the final words of the tour, in which mention was made precisely this artist and reveals that all of these things in the exhibition, whose faces are projections of the filming of a real person was 7. Applause and end. She leaves and I stay with the detective work to locate in the exhibition space (or outside), the location of the remaining most of whom had remained invisible to my eyes in a first pass. So were appearing one after another, in remote areas, elevated or flush with the floor, but no previous track showed me the total, who know if I had gone with infinitely less rich experience of the sample, since it is one of the most interesting works.

In this case, the decision of the respective location of each of these works was the artist himself. I do not know how it was in the second case, but the title of the work, the location here is more defined. We are
Proa, exposure Magnet: New York .
After touring the ground floor where artists are present figuration, exerting a powerful attraction, as well as abstractions and pop groups, I climb the stairs and against the glass window overlooking the living room while I climb the stairs, perceive something new that had not seen at first: a colorful panel placed on high and carried the unmistakable style of Louis Wells.
try to argue that you can not overlook that, someone hung a moment that work just after I left the room, if a trifle total is 3 by 4 meters. Trick I try to hide it never occurred to me to look at the ceiling, a word that is just in the title of the work of Wells. And had it not been for the wonderful window, most likely would not have seen.

curatorial toast to the challenges and the artists who make us desacartonar a way to view works to which we have become accustomed.
But next time do not take me unawares. No work should be drained before my eyes. Magnifying glass in hand will inspect corner by corner, which health inspector in post choris the Costanera.
So many fans of Sherlock Holmes readings accumulated can not be in vain.

Friday, August 6, 2010

Companies Willing To Donate A Xbox

The Hidden Art And say painted flowers do not smell anything ... Magic face



Someone once wrote that the flowers are a gift that nature does, a luxury for our enjoyment, as it is practically the only element of the natural realm not is of no use. Its beauty and fragrance are there only for us to enjoy them. And it seems that neither the artists, most heinous, abstract or seizure may be, can escape its charm.

In the retrospective that was seen until a few days in the Malba devoted to the work of Robert Mapplethorpe, intruding between sadomasochistic scenes, sculptures and portraits of stars of the music and art, there was a lot of pictures that dealt in around the flower theme, portraying delicate tulips, orchids stunning colors angry or shy coves.
At first glance, the high contrast can hardly fail to call attention to the subtlety of a fine image in front of the border obscenity that touch others. Although the sexual allusion and eroticism of the flowers makes the distance between each other not as abysmal as you might expect. However

time ago someone had been more radical than him, because despite the apparent contrast between these pictures had much in common, such as Mapplethorpe himself said: "My approach to photographing a flower is not very different from that application for a cock. Basically the same thing: a question of lighting and composition . " But he was not the same thing and these performances were a completely different approach was for one of the kings of abstract art modern and early twentieth century: Piet Mondrian. Who would suspect that the author of the famous grid of black lines and rectangles of primary colors was able to perform simultaneously an abundant number of paintings with flowers as protagonists? Floral figure went beyond his paintings and there were plenty artificial flowers decorating your study. To the surprise of a journalist, Mondrian confessed that the flower represented the woman who was missing in his life, devoted entirely to art.
The apparent vulgarity of a reason to still lifes populated for centuries and centuries did not seem to match the modern super that he hoped to achieve with its most widespread and abstract paintings, but apparently this was not a problem nor a contradiction for him, nor was to Mapplethorpe.

Interest marking the career of an artist can be many, varied and go mutate over time, but you never know. Just in case anyone saying this will not drink water.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Favorite Quotes From Deborah Sampson

Marcelo Pombo Sebastian Gordín



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My teacher said that no one could tell having seen a movie if I had not seen on the big screen of a cinema. Similarly, I think nobody can say he knows the work of Marcelo Pombo, if it was only through reproductions.
This is the karma of those live for centuries away from the main stages of Western art, to try to keep abreast of developments and trends that were taking place in Europe and then in the U.S., the only choice was to travel or study based on faded reproductions of both switch hand in hand, but could not be interpreted unequivocally missing face appearance.
time gave us revenge, and if, as imagined by the art critic Robert Hughes, now live in a world where there radicant more an art center, but many schools today, then our peripheral position of the past no longer it is both and this situation can be reversed.

A reproduction, a photograph or a picture from the Internet, we petty much information in relation to a painting. The speed of the strokes, overlapping layers, the order in which the images were appearing, the tool used to place the painting, the actual size of the work, become anecdotal and unnoticed aspects. There are only shapes, colors and a picture with some resemblance to the original. Second-hand image.
And if we speak of a Van Gogh on display in a hidden corner of Bulgaria, playing not only justified but is necessary, but an Argentine artist there is no excuse. The photograph of a work of Pombo has nothing to do with a painting Pombo. We well escape the delicacy of your bill, the patience with which distills each of its points in relief, with tiny concentric circles that surround each other, the impression of the work as a whole, despair and want to spend your fingers gently over to capture the dimension table also in touch, and nothing more and nothing less than his aura.

For all this, the images illustrating this note does not mean anything. The truth about them is in San Telmo Gallery Zavaleta Lab, in the sample The depth of the sea. Zavaleta Lab

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Until August 7

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

What Does A Thickening Of The Colon Wall Mean

The climax of the disaster or


The glamorous supermarket is ArteBa art that seems to last for fewer days each time because it gives the feeling that can never be covered in full. Nothing too surprising there this year, although it is increasingly seen works and technical experimentation. I must admit that something that surprised me is that while the number of stands of foreign galleries multiply, Argentine goes down, data is not very auspicious for the local art market.

As always there were works of all kinds, but the one that caught my attention was not the most spectacular, nor the most grandiloquent and probably the most expensive (something that no inquiries). Could only in a glass case and its author is Sebastian Gordín. What it was? A library, with its dozens of volumes and about to crumble. The little booklets made and painted one at a timber crashed into the ground represented in the work and the portrayed Gordín still at the exact moment of his fall.

The artist moved here the theory made famous by Henri Cartier Bresson in the field of photography, to that of "the sculpture? The goal?, When he preached the idea with his camera to capture the decisive moment, or as he called it, the "image à la sauvette" an image that seems so magical and unique chance had it not been trapped forever in your device.
The stability of a long inverted pyramid was investigated by the sculptors, but it is surprising to those who know of this technique is that the modules of the library can hold only one angle, that hardly makes contact base.

Although it seems to be only a visual work, which appeared in the stand Gordín Ruth Benzacar has an implied sound reaches the edge of the unbearable, because intuitively we get to see her hands over ears to shudder with the noise that will make the fall so the hundreds of booklets and all the shelves that held so far.
impossible not to wonder about what had happened in the instant before which we are witnessing, what or who caused the disaster.
So far the only certainty we have is that we are witnessing the exact point of fact, a second frozen in time in which we participate and we will keep with us always, and when someone asks us we can say, sure of their significance " I was there!".

Monday, June 21, 2010

Anniversary Death Card

a prologue like these, critics refrain Liniers

last month made a presentation on Centro Cultural Recoleta by an artist named Juan Pablo Inzirillo Mendoza, who was named to the high-sounding title as Susy liquid Trash Combustion composed larger works, nice and pleasant, with batmanes, superheroes and characters more. The show was interesting, but the text accompanying the drop itself was not wasted.
There we read that its editor, this work "must be considered absolutely of his time: his work appears exploding like a bomb that spreads, regardless of where it falls, a personality formed on the basis of living with both total intensity internal reality as outside the individual who is the artist " (!)

later continues his unorthodox description "as being his work is quite contemporary, current, present, (I was clear and I repeat in other words?) why not leave the presented as totally individual and personal " (Thank God for daily bread and for creating wizard synonymous with Word). This magnanimous author
dropped and, in passing, one of the great revelations of the history of art: what is the sign "necessary to recognize where there is art and where not: (chan chan!) feel that We work raises the temperature, that hits us below the waist and then the fire goes to your head and robs us. "
Well, maybe not so unfortunate, visiting Mapplethorpe at Malba, both bun with one tubing may singe you little thoughts.

And after work, it's time to talk about the artist. "speaks a particular language, a language that has built stealing (epa!). him as every artist is a good thief, the permanently stealing the world around them, a vampire that generates new blood from all that comes across. "
So it was just a robbery. Such postmodernist theory quoted talking about the artistic the "honor" of ownership that characterizes modern art, so now I come to find out that they were all euphemisms that masked the issue and that the artists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first are nothing but a gang of thieves , which is a stooge Inzirillo more.
But is not the end all, is the final proverb: "The coup is in the neck (post office? Was not in the belly?) digestion in the mind." Amen. But it is better here. Since no one is free from falling into nonsense like that, I promise that if ever someone to read something like the writer of these lines I will submit for public scorn, asking this man to write a few lines about me.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

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Picasso



An international genius submitted by another local well. Do not miss the exhibition "The gaze of desire" Picasso at the MUNTREF, Home!

Friday, June 18, 2010

How Can I Shrink Nasal Polyps

The paradoxes and the mantras of Kacero


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of Ruth Benzacar Kacero in itself can be called a multidisciplinary exhibition. We find there a little bit of everything, enough to make us hungry and look forward to coming back for more. In addition to its known
light boxes and small squares with language so characteristic of the artist that fill the walls, probably what most arouses curiosity are the projections on some desktops are distributed around the room, and sharing a procedure very similar to each other.
The protagonists of two of these videos are girls, and seems Kacero face in those two seemingly opposite worlds: the spontaneity and innocence of childhood contrasted with the philosophy of mind twisting, where nothing is left to chance but is the result of multiple round trips on the same subjects.

A little girl picks up the pages of a book usually found in white, and the advantage to draw a day at the beach. Begin to appear in his drawings a fairy, hearts, flowers, little clouds, until the space is so saturated that the horror vacui guiding children's drawings, make it catch the title of the book to cover also: Phenomenology of spirit of Hegel.
In the other a girl read aloud. With a newly built learning, the pace is monotone, without emotion, without appropriate breaks. Make it difficult words falter, he is wrong, hesitates, begins again. Most likely he misses the sense of that which attempts to interpret, as if reading in Russian, or face a medical prescriptions. And at what laborious reading, also to us as we are receiving the message becomes confused and difficult to follow. A nomenclature alongside the hard transcribed text read in the video and reveals the mystery: it's a piece of Critique of Judgement Immanuel Kant, one of the most complicated books ever written.

in this field seems to resonate with the more complex text, speaks of the best qualities of the philosopher in question, the more ornate than those words, the denser the wisdom that we try to convey.
The complexity that gives authority to the books of philosophy and aesthetics, is dismantled in front of the simplicity and naturalness with which children approach things in an unbiased and bluntly stage to express what the restless.

The kids not only see things in a much more easily than adults, without giving much back on topic, but adults also are forced to simplify everything so that children can understand the world around them. Reverse mechanism of philosophy, where it is assumed that a greater understanding of the universe, everything must be more complex in the extreme.
creative Another instance is also apparent in this exhibition, and is the literary side of Fabio Kacero. In addition to a series of illustrations made for the covers of various books, are interspersed in showcases a series of short stories, untitled and occupying other giant books whose pages seem to be blank except for one in which it is open. Trying to fit a chart which he predicted would be a writer, his short stories are just catching and fantastic character. After reading a couple, it is understandable that they are under glass because the temptation to take home to enjoy quiet is great, as are a few to read them all standing in the middle of the gallery.

Sarcasm and humor about himself is also present in another sample video, which was filmed putting Fabio listening to the opinion of a fierce critic of the New York Times endorsed on a performance, turning it into a song so that it becomes repetitive mantra and after hearing it for a while, it becomes impossible to dislodge from the cerebral cortex. Rattling will continue there for hours, like the magical vocabulary of images. Ruth
Benzacar
Until July 2

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Whats An Easy Food To Eat With Swollen Glands?

Suspense Luciana Lamothe

If I had to describe briefly the two works by Luciana Lamothe set out in the Itaú Cultural Area, defined as the pure suspense.
One of them is wooden planks overlapping each other, which are subject to the wall at one end, some distance from the floor and finishes with a very angular. The weight has on the opposite end is such that it generates a feeling of instability, and why not of fear, that the structure does not resist, it may fall at any moment and go through a foot for example, which does not seems very unlikely.
The other piece is an old orange cartel bank, several feet long, hanging from the cross-shaped roof and pointing toward the door, dividing the exhibition space in half. Lamothe
These works can be compared to the effect that causes a horror movie, where when we see it all the time we spend waiting for the imminent of a terrible event is about to happen when you least expect, and we hold our breath as if we avoid triggering event.
If any of the ropes holding the sign was cut, was to be sent at full speed towards the door and shatter the glass to pieces. We also have the feeling that if we supported just one finger on the trailing end of the wooden board, it would not withstand the weight disproportionate and would be broken in half.
feels tension in the air since you enter the room and burdensome and threatening perceive the installation on your head. Nothing comfortable positions for the viewer.
Interesting metaphor for violence contained, tied with wire, which can be triggered with minimal movement and generate excessive consequences.
Lamothe, an artist whose actions and videos many times bordering on vandalism, presented here, made especially works that have a juggernaut in the truest sense of the word might suggest.

Monday, April 19, 2010

Digital Playground Stream List

The contingencies of Jorge Macchi




After giving us a bellyful of watercolors and various techniques of Jorge Macchi in the gallery Benzacar Ruth, all of them of great delicacy and even quite funny, descend to the basement to see the continuation of the sample. There we met with a light hanging from the ceiling to bare wire dazzles us until we can hardly open his eyes. As the dark, takes a while to get used to so much light, and once we do we spot a huge wooden structure at the corner of the room, behind a column, occupying the space from floor to ceiling. After seeing that one wonders if they are doing some remodeling in there or if indeed it is a work more exposure. Runway: a nomenclature on the wall announces the name of the piece. " Umbria."
When we started to piece things together, we realized then that sparse and coarse elements in their individuality, Macchi builds a subtle and magnetic work, giving of forcefulness and materiality of something that does not. The shadow behind the column and the bulb, borrows the physical body of the timber to become visible to our eyes, almost as if a magic act.

Without the character of work in progress tirnen's work discussed above, yet with a higher poetic level, we incorporeal elements are evident here, which although always with us, we are so everyday we just see them and realize their existence, apparently vacant.
any Chronicles is the title of a sample in which the time factor is considerable in the works that compose it. And what more possible than a shadow, so fragile that its existence is entirely dependent not only a source of light to produce, but also the smallest element that crosses his path to disintegrate.
Nothing remains here of the famous sense of the shade as stalking, threat startles us on a dark night, this does not generate fear but pure poetry. Ruth


Florida Benzacar
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Until May 14, 2010

Monday, April 12, 2010

Smithfields Bbq Calories

Self heavier World



Of the sample "Paraconstrucción "exhibited at the brand new Itaú Cultural Area, the work of one of the artists struck me particularly. This is Jorge tirnen, who presented, as all the rest, a work created for the exhibition space, ie a specific site, which is a model Fiat Auto Europe, which once moved the exhibition space were you gallons spilled cement on the inside to fill it.

The procedure is not new. Rachel Whiteread, a British artist, filled with plaster, resin and other materials no less than houses, those of the Victorian style so recognizable real size, making them completely unusable but it can draw inside an unprecedented way: as a giant mold which is no longer any place for any visitor but which were registered to their innermost recesses and marks left by those who once lived there. Defunctionalization
This is also present in the work of tirnen as was the friendly away to its former destination Fitito as a means of motorized transport.
Interestingly, though not flawless look for their external condition, it was out of use since before becoming part of the sample, and left by the wayside as did was put in a position patiently by the artist and painted a fiery red.
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meeting certain seduction in the works to be transformed over time, and whose outcome we can predict but not entirely predict. An aura of mystery around it is for us, spectators, and for the creator who gave life to the creature, as with "Life, death and resurrection " those shapes lead Victor Grippo, filled germinating bean that sooner or later would explode.
hardly the car explode as it did with these figures, but who knows? Perhaps someone has ever experienced? As soon as we can see in the car are the tires buckling under the weight of cement, stroking the limit of their endurance.
a material generally used to define contours, is here filling the empty space that usually go around in the buildings of which it forms part. Beyond its constructive sense, we can not forget the sad and chilling connotation that keeps this material with our recent history.
I wonder if at some point be in the artist's intention to remove the "shell" representing the car's body, and to let us glimpse the negative of it from a completely new perspective, revealing that place between seats and flyers reserved in most cases, our human anatomy.

giving something invisible physical entity is also the sign of Jorge Macchi in Ruth Benzacar of which we'll talk soon.


Itaú Cultural Space and Viamonte
Cerrito
Until May 14, 2010

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

How Long Does Dimarzipan

The impossibility of silence on cinema



last Thursday was held at the Alliance Francaise, a session of beautiful short films mostly in the time of the early twentieth century avant-garde. The subject: the modern city, curated by Philippe-Alain Michaud, Centre Pompidou.
All were silent films to be projected; know if the audience that exceeded the room had previously observed this in the program, but all I got to thinking that this was not the case. The first went off the mild-eyed viewers who swallowed those powerful images with a greedy eye. With the arrival of the second, came the attacks of coughing. Clear cell, also sounded, despite the unprecedented invitation to switch off the appliances. Shortly after he felt the air pressure. The creaking of chairs echoed in a room trying desperately to remain silent, whispering, sneezing and coughing contagious increasingly spread over the audience like a wildfire. The few seconds that mediated between a video and the other unleashed a barrage of comments, crosswords, suppressed coughs exploding as a safety valve in an audience that did not seem (seemed) able to withstand the silence that required no more than 10 minutes each lasting short. If only there was an accompanying live music, this is amenizaría a touch, I say.
A while later, this decompression gave words to this film, on top of arguments, in the very short intervals flight and joined the mass departure of much of the hearing, which was relieved once out, when their lips could reissue sounds an audible level without a "Shhhh!" He burst on the ear.
never went to see a silent film to the cinema, but now the public resistance that I experienced here in front of these short, was such that it resembled me as nearly impossible, touching the limits of tolerance of people accustomed to many simultaneous stimuli, to achieve the necessary quiet to relax and close your mouth a few minutes required to go through an intensive course before crossing zen the front door of the room.
Kurosawa, silent film great farmer, said he tried to imagine how would be the scenes of his movies if they were silent, and then eliminated all superfluous dialogue.
occasionally comes While a bit of minimalism.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Hymen Broken Bleeding Vids

Mc Curry, high-impact photography




There are exhibits that we cover as going for a walk, glancing, commenting on the work to pass, and of which we relaxed to go do some shopping or meet a friend. Still others are so powerful that not only costs leave the exhibition space, under the powerful influence of the images, it is complicated to go out and get to chat with anyone who lost cattle pass, so ensimismante that experience can be. The latter is what I felt to go " Cultures" photographic exhibition of Steve McCurry at the Centro Cultural Borges.
Located in photojournalism, and a leading contributor to National Geographic, his works, with few exceptions, take place in this whole englobalizador we call "East", the vast majority in India. In them some indication of the landscape or environment, but only when strictly necessary for the story itself, because the main protagonist of the series presented is the man, in a register of daily life that starts in the first 80 and reaches until 2000.
The look of the portraits is usually so strong in most of them, it's almost impossible not to be questioned as a spectator, establishing a silent dialogue with them. Behind this humanity occupying the foreground, the background becomes fuzzy.
The children are the main protagonists, whether in India, Indonesia and Afghanistan, as in the case of "masterpiece", shown separately in a gray wall, highlighting its importance above all else, "The Afghan girl, "probably one of the greatest beauties Earth has ever set foot.

Something that caught my attention was that the photographs did not have a title in itself but a description or explanation of the scene depicted, which section of a publication that probably were part and that helps us understand a little better.
When cities are portrayed as extremely poor as those seen in this sample, and the general work of Steve McCurry, there is a danger of falling into the tabloid pathos or cheap pity that they can cause. The line is very thin and very easy to get the other side. But this is not what we feel here in front of photographs of an artist you into these worlds without cheap shots. Cultures
is called the sample, which interests me greatly, because it implies that we will find there a definition, at least iconic of such term. How would these cultures formed then? For the sum of individuals that in total, by tradition (from the most benign to those that border on the inhumane, although each village speaks their own language of good and evil and the neighbor does not understand, say Nietzsche), identity attributes, clothing, religions and even by external imposition.

The sample is so enveloping that to completely forget the moisture that seeps through the roof of Borges, and pools that must be avoided. Ideal to go with enough time to dissect each image, they deserve it.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Anyone Use What A Shaver

Chronicle of a pagan worship zealotry

And people say that the ceremonial and protocol are a matter of diplomatic and nice people. The other day I was first in mi vida en un acto político realizado en un estadio de fútbol, llevada por la ingente curiosidad que siempre me causaron los acontecimiento masivos, y la organizadísima y ordenada estructura con la que me encontré no dejó de sorprenderme ni por un solo momento. Las imágenes de dos íconos de la historia argentina vigilaban cada movimiento desde el telón de fondo del escenario, mientras un presentador leía permanentemente los nombres de personas y movimientos que manifestaban su adhesión al acto y daban su presente.
Todos tenían su lugar designado desde mucho antes de llegar, salvo por los “autoconvocados” que se metían donde podían. Las columnas entraban de a una, esperando su turno en la entrada. Once they make their appearance, the speaker mentioned his name, while the group stops for a moment waiting to be placed, advertising with rhythmic music of drums. Accompanying
background, "Argentina to the bottom" of Bersuit. No matter the time of arrival here to get a more or less close to the stage, but the weight of the movement or group to which it belongs.

announcer calls "a lost classmate, who is going through a time of distress," a boy of 8 years to pass the minutes no one claimed.
I expected the start of speeches sitting on the floor behind the field and little concerned about the location, until a group with their flags were admitted and expected to accommodate literally passed me over and I quickly concluded that this was not the best place. They kept passing
sellers "Bombom stick ice cream" and sugared several, but my confusion was increased when handed one selling a sample of photos. I thought so distracted as I am I had the wrong day and place, and the recital of Franz Ferdinand I thought to place the next day he had moved, and were offering me pictures of Scottish musicians, as the entry of any concert. But as I approached I found a series of photos and posters of Evita, with all imaginable looks she learned to adopt. So there are ritual shared between two spheres (or opportunistic repeated? Who knows.)

After a first speaker confuses the stadium with a grocery store and rehearse a speech recited that no one bothers to listen, start the act itself. With a freshness and enthusiasm in the audience would not let me wonder, by repeating to the burden that must be passed along for decades, everything is scheduled in advance. We sing the anthem, and not exaggerate in saying that my heart sank when he saw "35,000? "70,000? (According to the media, of course) little people singing their verses, most of which no more than 45 years. Then came video footage of historic speeches were heard from the most famous political family, who presided over the event from the past. Minutes later, the keynote speaker is greeted with the Peronist march and face the crowd a declaration of unconditional love for his wife, while all the women sigh and rub his love, should keep on hand, moved by Romantic vein political issue.
The act ends, is given by the end of this pagan worship and all go home (or the buses parked outside), all but the little fellah whose name the announcer keeps repeating out loud, ringing in the speakers, while the stadium was empty.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

African Americans With Ringworms

Is it possible? Síiiiiiiii! Fairy

Hello sailors! Within
very little I will have the new Web, with its little shirt and bodice, ie date and store. Also, the blog becomes:
because I can not get their hands this design, or put in links, or anything else. In its day I made a mess and I'm still in it. So we spent the old and so richly.
How long have I
announcing the new website and shop?
Muuuuuuuuuuuuucho, but it now gives me in the nose it's going to be swift and fast.
Kisses with hugs, it is very cold.

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Micro Suede And Microfiber

History




Much has been said of the Beatles as a band triggering of hysteria from fans, which in their case come to light so overcome they had to stop because it shows impossible to hear what both played in the middle of crying. But while they have the title of the initiators of many things, mainly on an artistic level, I do not have as to the outbreak of fanaticism musical. Like many classical composers were the rock stars of his era, singers Opera was the main target of popular fervor in Argentina between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
In a period in which the theater and national composers were scarce and were relegated against a clear preference for artists of companies from Europe, the performers who occupied the front rows on the world opera stage, and who came brought by these land for any spins, were received with highest honors.
Just as we now see herds of teenagers who are desperate to capture with his camera the first smile of Ricky Martin or the Jonas Brothers just pose their feet on the ladder of the airplane, chasing sunshine and in shadow, a century ago, caravans of fans heading to the port on the day announced by the newspapers as the set for the arrival of his idols, the most desired sopranos or tenors looking. From there on long processions were accompanied to their accommodation, and offered to please them all sorts of events, meals and entertainment. These beings were then the largest repositories of dreams and fantasies, capable of stimulating an excessive admiration as described by Proust where the narrator fears that the action of crumpling a program to alter the sound of the voice of Berma, the prima donna Phaedra, or the lack of applause could offend.

also often associated this kind of attitude with the female audience. Much later, at a distance and without leaving an ironic and burlesque, journalists spoke of "the girls" to Sandro for example, who threw him to the poor all kinds of women's clothing. Long ago it was men who had the privilege, and covering their idols and girls with flowers, detachable collars of their shirts, buttons and miscellaneous items that would make a sad pale panties.

Another sign of fanaticism often cries, howls that reached the unusual highs are capable of shredding the most beautiful set of glassware, which become a way for fans measure each degree of admiration for the artist in question. This approach was not always exclusive to the female, because for a long time, and until they are able to upset the social conventions that so rigidly governed the case, women had tacitly forbidden to express their enthusiasm and even applaud in theatrical performances . Nothing should surprise then that these women are largely silenced those retribution now screaming his lungs in the presence of a nod or a Luis Miguel Chayanne hip movement.

Now all the music channels have a program dedicated to the fans, which run contests to see who knows more about their favorite singer, if this had existed 90 years ago, nobody would have taken away the title of "Fan of the Year" to our former president, Marcelo T. de Alvear, who madly in love with a famous prima donna in Europe, devoted several years to pursue by all the theaters in the world, filling it with praise and gifts. But as this was not enough to get his attention, one day he decided to buy each and every one of the seats for a role in which she would sing, placing a rose on all seats and becoming its unique and privileged spectator. And here was the strength of the girl ...

As noted a copy of Faces and Masks of 1900 saved by Ricardo Pasolini, "there are people for whom to talk to an opera singer is equivalent to see the Pope." Anyway, if I get to choose between it and a Mick Jagger a bit singed, I do not think even a tenth of a second.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Wholesale Leotards China

Trabalenguas

Hello sailors! ! Very good morning!
wind blows in Segovia
keen and it's great because I have always
feeling that the wind we clean enough.
As I was saying ... Here it is again
"The Fairy Jawbreaker"
is that this library
(Nuñez de Balboa, 19. Madrid)
have had the great idea to make a first library to give to babies.
All booklets will get in a beautiful box that appears in the picture that you showed up.

Monday, February 22, 2010

My New Lg Lcd Tv Looks Fuzzy

Los siete locos, Roberto Arlt




I was recently reading "The 7 crazy" Arlt, perhaps by curiosity that caused me a comment I heard about one of his characters, the astrologer, was based in Xul Solar, the notorious inclination to mystical subjects.
This is the first part of the evolution of life Erdosain, the protagonist of a story that does not lack a tragic air, and that continues in "The Flamethrowers" . If anything you have left this character is such an uneasiness that the author, an omniscient narrator keeps reminding us, materializing these feelings that plague the man that nobody wanted to feel identified. Thus we can see it "walking on their distress" or feeling that "the idea criminosa was a continuation of his body." Yes, although not strictly of a police force, the idea of \u200b\u200bcrime and death hovers over the story from beginning to end.
often branded as being the least educated of his colleagues peer, Arlt literature is not without philosophical components, even of those who are learned in the street, day after day and not necessarily in the books or meditating hours sitting on a bidet and the association leads me to famous "Thinker" of Rodin. Erdosain perceive their existence as a denial, seeing himself as a poor guy (even though deep down you know which is better than what everyone thinks even though life has not given the chance to prove it), almost invisible to its environment , and whose only crime he will assert its presence in the world and make a person liable to be considered by the rest. Kill = exist, would the equation only valid for him. Arlt
build a character, surrounded by his constant misery and daily diatribe against the city and its inhabitants, criticizes the consequences of an urbanized and industrialized society, overwhelmed by the constant waiting for the arrival of an act to change it all and transform a life lived as miserable. And what is the best solution is?: The mass extermination of the population! No, no, it is not a science fiction book or something equivalent to disaster movies, but well worth take a look!

Reading: after winning a chess competition or eating sumptuously with friends, with a good spirit that we waste. Never take the book in one day crestfallen because the resulting depression can be disastrous!

best:
 "What we call madness is descostumbre thinking of others."
 "... in the city can not be brave. You know that if you spoil the face of a hapless police procedures are going to bother therefore tolerate you prefer to take justice into their own hands. That's the reality. And you get used to be a resigned, slowing impulses. "
(Boy, I had this the day after numerous previous instances, I was a little bit just to implement the grappling with a hostile neighbor. Arlt brain hammered me with such a sentence, which led me to imagine a police station by typing in front of a rusty Olivetti affecting in my skull. Needless to say I gave to initiate any movement. Since I have enough bureaucracy in Anses units.)

Heart With Wings Tramp Stamp Tattoo

Juan Pablo Renzi. The reason





For more than a decade that had no exposure Renzi he was completely dedicated, and on previous occasions I was much most small to get to like the way it could now. I always got it comments readings, images linked to their work and highly political actions, such as those that were part of Tucumán Arde, but knew nothing of all these works that I could now see in this sample of Imago, the foundation of Osde Suipacha street. The revolutionary aspect is portrayed and focused on a separate sitting room, a reference that could not miss, as a comment in a footnote, but not the central axis.

all begins with "Margarita", a painting of 1964 where he finds a path of experimentation that seems frozen with the advent of the dictatorship in 1976. From there, his art is a way in which it becomes increasingly clear their hyper virtuosity in the design of milk, cups, chairs, still lifes and other objects.
After 1985, the exhibits show how the artist takes up a line of work long abandoned. Here is the release that occurs in their work is complete, and away from the neatness and the line contained in its preliminary stage, we find an explosion of color and unique traits and expressions, which do not keep anything in common with your previous price.
is very noticeable, at least in all the exhibits, this new technique and the chosen subject for painting during the period of Argentina's military dictatorship, sharply contrasting with the times before and after, something that fills me with questions, will have been pursued? There will be forced into exile like so many other artists? I tried to clean the very recent past linked to its revolutionary political action used art as a tool and would be sufficient to be considered a suspicious subject? However
are his own words that will not let us stay in the literalness of the painted patterns: "I actually work are ideas," she told this man that ever died so young, just 52, and now could enrich the arts scene in policy issue has been fading.
In his works of clouds we see a concern different formal and looking at them we can not remember the skies of Bony, but are so different from each other: those of Renzi just outlined, with colors that deviate from the real to be closer to children's drawings, where clouds never fail and are usually light blue like that (mine also used to wear bow tie in tails and a big smile!). Bony
Skies, which came many years later, are of absolute perfection, and we are filled with admiration when we come to discover in detail and can not believe that this cotton is only a beautifully worked oil slick. Far from this perfection is for Renzi to work their clouds.
not difficult to detect the influence of Matisse on the sets of images caused by trompe l'oeil , a pedigree that never would have guessed before seeing the exhibition.
I also took the discovery of the meaning of the lyrics semi hidden in the mural Renzi made in Medrano station line B, which I usually do quite often and whose authorship unknown, tucked in the people fatal preparation, peak hours , troubles many and speed. And what was hiding under the large arrow heads the mural? ... A song of the Round! that of "I care for my sweetie, who bit the glass by other again. " A wound in the heart of Soda lovers know that have their tribute ricotero renziano in the bowels of the city.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Ftv Midnight Hot In India

Inesuqui

Agnes, here are your children!

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Driver Creativ Extygy

Bookmobile

Hello sailors!
gripazo With very, very uncomfortable, I defacing
nonstop.
not you know, or yes, cold weather on land
Segovia. Almost
books I have ready.
are
being more beautiful ...
In between I made the poster I
Bookmobile has commissioned deputy.
Yes, there are stripes. Hahaha.
(oh man, I have not put
spelling)