Reconstruyendo territorios surge del interés por visibilizar áreas distantes y emergentes de creación que Oficina #1 iniciara con la convocatoria Sin antecedentes, de la que resultó seleccionado Armando Rosales en 2010.
Entrevista con Juan José Olavarría (con contenido de audio.) Visiten la galería para ver fotografías de las obras.
Hoy salió mi artículo sobre los museos en Venezuela en la revista británica The New Statesman.
‘The Chávez government attracts attention for its social and political programmes, yet its effect on Venezuela’s art scene has been just as striking.’ […]
Click on the files below to see postcards of Caracas which make up Appendix II of “El Techo de la Ballena and Asfalto-Infierno: the Logic of Inversion in an Attack on Venezuela’s Cultural Establishment.” ETB Diss App II Fig 1 ETB Diss App II Fig 2 ETB Diss App II Fig 3 ETB Diss App […]
Click on the files below for the images from Appendix I of “El Techo de la Ballena and Asfalto-Infierno: the Logic of Inversion in an Attack on Venezuela’s Cultural Establishment.” ETB Diss Fig 1 ETB Diss Fig 2
El Techo de la Ballena and Asfalto-Infierno: the Logic of Inversion in an Attack on Venezuela’s Cultural Establishment. Abstract: The 1960s in Venezuela was marked by a political turbulence whose counterpart in the cultural sphere aspired to be no less of an upheaval. Proclaiming a Surrealist-influenced dogma of “Change life, transform society,” a group of […]
‘Expresar, sólo expresar, eso queremos.’ Image: Rayado sobre el techo 3, Colection CINAP, Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas. The emergence of arts/literary group El Techo de la Ballena and their quest to establish an avant-garde in Venezuela during the 1960s, marked a rebellious desire to break out of the “asphyxsiating” cultural milieu that surrounded them […]