Carlos Martiel’s Human Canvas
Carlos Martiel, a Cuban-American performance artist, has been described as provocative and raw. His explorations of existence’s nature, social barriers, and cultural traditions, [...]
Jorge Mendez Blake: A Literary Inquest
The Poets light but Lamps — Themselves — go out — The Wicks they stimulate If vital Light Inhere as do the Suns — Each Age a Lens Disseminating their Circumference — From the beginning of [...]
Dancing once again with Nietzsche through Oscar Santillan’s installation Afterword
Afterword (2015) Oscar Santillan Installation including a piece of paper belonging to Friedrich Nietzsche, a slide projection, two prints, and a video projection. A slide projection composed by [...]
The Facts in Wax: José María Cano
Based on newspaper clippings taken directly from the Wall Street Journal, José María Cano painstakingly reproduced the small portraits, and surrounding the column text in each clipping in large [...]
A Walk with Mario Garcia Torres: Review of his most recent exhibition held at Museo Tamayo
Mario García Torres’ body of work over 15 years has been challenging the art’s condition. Torres’ diversified communication platforms have examined the artistic complicity and its location [...]
Tim Berresheim: The Digital Surrealist
Berresheim’s technique combines painting, photography and digital media to overstep the boundaries of taste. The artist seeks to eliminate the classification of his artworks by pushing the limits [...]
Karl Holmqvist: Give poetry a try
Swedish artist Karl Holmqvist uses a wide range of formats, such as poetry readings, installation, and painting, to bring out the primal qualities of language. His body of work has been inspired [...]
Steve McQueen’s life dichotomy
Widely known as the director of the 2014 Academy Award-winning best picture, “Twelve Years a Slave”, Steve McQueen specializes in finding the perfect medium for each of his ideas in [...]