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Kolore beltzari buruz.
This text discusses the features of the color black. It depicts black as a color that absorbs light but paradoxically must also leave something in order we can aprecciate its inmense hunger. It is a group of reflexions about the ineffable depth and intensity of black, its antagonistic nature, and its cultural implications. The content…
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Algunas soluciones a la paradoja de Fillou.
Author critically explores Robert Fillou’s paradox, «Art is what makes life more interesting than art.» It suggests art, especially pieces born from artist’s tragic experiences, make life more interesting by providing intense experiences to those otherwise detached from such experiences. However, the author argues this perception is marred by the commodification of art and life,…
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Horario de visita al estudio.
Se recibe entre las 18 y las 20:00 horas (previa cita a través del email delarteelestado@gmail.com).Avda. Derechos Humanos 27, bajo.
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Arte del paseo (Convocatoria ZAS, 2020).
Zas Kultur has launched its first «Art of the Stroll» competition for artists from the Basque Country and Navarra, taking advantage of the easing of lockdown on May 2, 2020. Entries are to be documented pieces of art created during a public walk, maintaining legal restrictions. The work must involve some form of expression, the…
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Confinados (Convocatoria ZAS, 2020).
«Confinadxs» is an artistic project conceived and carried out entirely within the confines of quarantines. It explores the survival conditions of artistic work and the possibilities of artwork exhibition under the current circumstance. It suggests that these situations reveal a continuation of pre-existing struggles for artists rather than a disruption. Virus is also metaphorically portrayed…
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¿Qué es el arte ficción?
Art ficción is a new, possibly not so new, literary genre that forms part of fantastic literature and sometimes intersects with science fiction, horror stories, detective novels, humor, and adventure/travel narratives. The genre admits any mix of recognized or yet-to-be recognized genres. Arte ficción is characterized as a genre aimed at projecting or imagining other…
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Unofficial tourism. Una obra de arte de Iñaki Larrimbe.
This text explores the differences and contrasts between a tourist and a traveler, with the former seeking safe, pre-defined experiences and the latter creating original routes and seeking transformative experiences. It critiques tourism as a bound iteration of travel, commodified by bourgeoisie and reduced to «postcard experiences». The text presents Unofficial Tourism, a project begun…
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Abanderados (Gabinete ZAS 04, 2018).
Flags, recognized globally as symbols of national identities, are successful cultural signs. These visual symbols might have influenced the emergence of the nation they represent. National flags, primarily originating from the Middle Ages, can be categorized into civil and war flags. They adhere to geometric abstraction and hard edge, primarily using distinct color bands. Flags…
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Textos para «Babesik gabe / Sin refugio».
La cuestión.Ocuparse, como artistas contemporáneos, como agentes de lo intempestivo (diría Giorgio Agamben), de la representación del ser humano, la figura central siempre, recortada en este caso sobre el fondo terrible de la violación universal de su derecho de asilo y refugio. A un lado de las fronteras, o de las pantallas, las innumerables víctimas: el…