Nunca he sido de comics ni de fanzines, pero desde hace un tiempo he comenzado a familiarizarme con éstos últimos. Su formato y su intención me llaman más la atención que una historia contada en secuencias de dibujos. Al entender … Continúa leyendo El fanzine que más he esperado es el de Fashion Revolution:
Las mujeres latinas siempre tendremos que soportar esa fama de mujeres bellas y sexys por naturaleza. Pero por naturaleza no todas seguimos el prototipo Miss Venezuela o Sofía Vergara porque, por mucho que se haya proyectado esa imagen, muchas no … Continúa leyendo 4 Ilustradoras latinas con mucha sazón femenina
Don’t ask me why I like something. Most of the time, I don’t have a reason or any word to describe why something attracts me. Although, I believe we like something when we see ourselves in it, whether they are … Continúa leyendo IL POSTINO (THE POSTMAN): A lesson about life, art and aesthetic experiences
I’m not a writer but I made this blog. I need art in order to be inspired to write in it. Anyway, my lack of new posts during the past months haven’t been for such a profound reason as Guido’s, … Continúa leyendo Claudia. Inspiration or Desire. I
“So I can start working on being an artist, Giovanna” my mother said to me when we finished looking at the art exhibition and talking to the artist that organized it. The exhibition called Art on the Hill was part … Continúa leyendo Meeting an artist
English version of “Elogio al Arte Outsider II”: http://giovannavolpe.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/elogio-al-arte-outsider-ii/ In the previous post I started praising the Outsider Art by explaining the debt that official Art History owes to those creative manifestations of individuals socially segregated. But I think that debt … Continúa leyendo Elougy to Outsider Art, II
English version of “Elogio al Arte Outsider I” (http://giovannavolpe.wordpress.com/2014/01/15/elogio-al-arte-outsider-i/) An anonymous stated that he fucked off in the intellectual bullshit of the Barcelona’s Museum of Contemporary Art, making a graffiti in its 2012-2013 wall program. I took a picture of … Continúa leyendo Elougy to Outsider Art, I
You go to a Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and what you see is a chair, a urinary, a heap of detergent boxes together, a ripped blank canvas, a can with feces inside it (but not any feces…. the … Continúa leyendo “WTF?”.The big question about Contemporary Art
Un anónimo manifestó que se cagaba en las mierdas intelectuales del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona, haciendo una pintada en su programación 2012-2013. Le hice una foto. Días después la pintada ya no estaba, la habían borrado, pero en seguida el gran cartel empezó a llenarse de tags. Cuando acabó la temporada lo quitaron, y desde entonces no han vuelto a colgar nada en la fachada de la calle Montalegre. Ahora aquella foto que hice encabeza mi blog y su sentencia se me revela como una máxima. Me cago en vuestras mierdas intelectuales Ante la deshumanizada apariencia del arte, … Continúa leyendo Elogio al Arte Outsider, I
It is not that I don’t like video art, it is just that it is too intellectual and experimental for me. I find that it is difficult for me to connect with , because its meaning as a “novel” media to explore Art self-reference. I may say that I just have visited a very few exhibition of this kind, and almost all of them were always by chance. That is what happened when I went to visit the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne last November, and I must say that I was pleasantly surprised. Indeed, I expected to visit … Continúa leyendo Impressions about a Video Art exhibition. My three favorite works