Perspectiva y composición

El color contrastado y violento de sus cuadros, nos introduce en imagenes cargadas de alusiones figurativas que, con exaltadas acentos, componen escenarios de humoristicas ocurrencias, antropomorfismos y constantes metamorfosis.

Acompañado de la edición facsímil del Arte de Pintar de D. Gregorio Máyans y Siscar (Valencia, 1854), en el presente trabajo se ofrece una visión globalizadora del pensamiento estético del ilustrado precursor valenciano, enmarcado en el contexto de la ilustración europea y española así como el estudio de las influiencias y concomitancias con otras personalidades de la época, especialmente Jovellanos. La interpretación y fortuna crítica del polémico tratado y su autor ofrece otra óptica de análisis para afrontar el conocimiento del actualmente debatido siglo XVIII. Los diversos...

From the beginning of the sixties, Mary Kelly's works have dealth with the muddle of the language and its cultural and psychological impact. Her narrative installations question the traditional explanations of the daily life. The project The ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi comes up in 1999 after reading a piece of news published in a daily in Los Angeles, a report relating the story of Kastriot, an Albanian boy whose mother left for dead during the war in Kosovo, being rescued alive by the Serbians afterwards to meet his parents later on in good health. Based on these facts, Mary Kelly made this...

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,...