The Necro-Jewelry of Teresa Margolles
Ever since she was a member of the group SEMEFO[1], Mexican artist Teresa Margolles chose the morgue and the violence-ridden streets of northern border town Ciudad Juarez, Mexico as her atelier. [...]
The Historical Compass of the Allora & Calzadilla Collective
Since 1995, artists Jennifer Allora (American, 1974) and Guillermo Calzadilla (Cuban, 1971) have collaboratively produced an interdisciplinary portfolio of artworks. Videos, sound pieces, [...]
Humberto Junca’s Silent Language
Humberto Junca’s artwork Handicap is composed of 27 wooden frames holding stretched silk canvases that are manually embroidered with black thread and that figure American Sign [...]
Jim Lambie’s glance at punk
When everyone else was going to art school, Lambie was always partying around at the English punk rock scene, specifically, the Splash 1 club, which played a major influence in Lambie’s artistic [...]
The Nostalgic Faux-finish Pictorial Trip of Slawomir Elsner
Shadow-like figures, lonely places and left-behind objects are part of the realistic, albeit emotionally skewed representations of Slawomir Elsner’s world. The ominous visual language of this [...]
Gonzalo Lebrija: “Measuring the Distance”
September 11th – November 1st, 2015 La Casa Encendida, Ronda de Valencia 2, 28012 Madrid, Spain / September 10th – to November 5th, 2015 Travesía Cuatro, Calle San Mateo, 16, 28004, [...]
Dora Longo’s Violent Reincarnation
Farsa Goya (Fusilamientos del 3 de Mayo de 1808) and Farsa-Goya (Fusilamientos del 27 de Agosto de 1979) by Dora Longo are two representative artworks from the Adrastus Collection. Using a [...]
José Carlos Martinat’s offhand archeology
Peru makes itself present in the Adrastus Collection with Atahualpa (2012), a sculpture pertaining to a fifteen sculpture series called “Dispositivos de Deleite”. Through the use of copper [...]