The current exhibition marks the return to abstract painting that has been at the core of Gerhard Richter’s practice since he returned to the brush and squeegee in 2014, following a period of exploration from 2008 forward of digital technologies applied to painting in the Strips — and chance techniques in the poured lacquer Reverse Glass works. Continue reading Gerhard Richter
For over a decade, Jon Rafman has travelled the planet while sitting at his desk, a flâneur of the twenty-first century, gathering images for his ongoing project Nine Eyes of Google Street View (2008–present). Continue reading Jon Rafman
The veil of time made of abandonment, wear and rust acquires an unusual poetical dimension in JSZ’s hands. He forces us to observe the miniscule and ordinary with a new gaze, the humble spoon or plate, those things which we never see in our everyday rush. By doing so, new images are emerging, revealed as they would come from a dark room or waking from a dream. Continue reading Joseba Sánchez Zabaleta
As of 1975, Christo and Jeanne-Claude developed the idea of wrapping the Pont-Neuf in Paris in a golden sandstone-coloured polyamide canvas, which would cover the sides and the vaults of the bridge’s twelve arches, the parapets, the edges and the footpaths (the public could walk on the canvas), its 44 lamps and the vertical walls of the central island of the western end of Île de la Cité and the Esplanade du Vert-Galant. Continue reading Christo
fotos: © Ramón Masats, VEGAP, Madrid, 2020 . + Tabacalera
Entre 1955 y 1965 Ramón Masats recorre la geografía de España con su cámara y una obsesión en su cabeza: retratar los tópicos con los que la cultura oficial, bendecía los valores patrios. Continue reading Ramón Masats
