Textos curatoriales
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Temor y tremor. Estética de la catástrofe en la escultura de Ariana RAC.
Acerca de la exposición de escultura de Ariana RAC en la sala de exposiciones de Zas Kultur en Vitoria. La artista utiliza chapa de acero para crear esculturas que evocan imágenes de destrucción y catástrofe.
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Apostasía del trabajo.
The text critiques the intrinsic morality of work, arguing that true morality lies in reducing labor or abstaining from it entirely. It highlights how labor supports systems of private capital accumulation, leading to human disempowerment. The author suggests that humanity sacrifices its most precious asset, time, to serve economic systems, necessitating a rebellion against work’s…
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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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Arte del paseo (Convocatoria ZAS, 2020).
Zas Kultur has launched its first «Art of the walk» 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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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…
Rubén Díaz de Corcuera 