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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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Con nocturnidad y alevosía. Enlighten landscapes de Gert Voor in’t Holt.
Hay que imaginar la escena. El fotógrafo y su ayudante caminando en la noche, pertrechados con aparatos de fotografía: trípodes, cámaras, una luz y una batería. Accediendo a pie a ciertas localizaciones (quizá reconocidas previamente a plena luz del día). Lugares situados en los límites borrosos entre ciudad y campo. En alguno de tales lugares…
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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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Forzar la letra. Obras de Nerea Lekuona de la serie Desataduras (2023).
Primeras impresiones. Pocas y grandes palabras pero escritas a mano (aquí hay mucho oficio de la artista). Pocas palabras pero, de un modo u otro, expresivas. Expresivas en el significante, en la letra, y solidariamente en el significado, en los conceptos. Y también a la inversa, expresivas en el plano de contenido afectando entonces a…
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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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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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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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