"British-born, Mexico City-based artist Melanie Smith (born 1965) created three audiovisual works for the Mexican Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, each documented in this volume: "Aztec Stadium" (which takes place in Mexico's largest stadium), "Xilitla" (on Edward James' Surrealist palace) and "Package" (in which a large, red packet bursts into various public spaces)."
""Pseudomatism" is the first monograph on Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (born 1967). Featuring 43 works, it spans more than two decades of production using technology-based approaches, including interactive video, robotics, computerized surveillance, photography and sound sculpture."
"In 2014, Mexican architects Javier Sánchez and Aisha Ballesteros, of the firm JSa, were commissioned to build a new museum in Cuernavaca dedicated to the work of artist Juan Soriano and a contemporary art exhibition program. The given site was a walled-off property in the middle of a dense urban neighborhood, a space the architects wanted to give back to the city. Accordingly, JSa’s Juan Soriano Museum building, a refined concrete struc ..."
"This first major monograph on the electronic artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer was produced on the occasion of the 2007 Venice Biennale, where Lozano-Hemmer presented six interactive installations--becoming the first artist to officially represent Mexico at the Biennale. Born in Mexico City in 1967, Lozano-Hemmer studied Physical Chemistry at Concordia University in Montreal, and now uses his background in the sciences to create the large-sca ..."
"Chronicling the aesthetics of sacrifice in Mexican artist Ximena Labra’s public interventionsThis volume documents 25 years of public interventions by Mexico City–based artist Ximena Labra (born 1972). Focusing in particular on Labra’s use of the supernatural and carnivalesque aesthetics of sacrifice, the book features texts by Cuauhtémoc Medina, José Luis Barrios and Bef."
"Artist Silvia Gruner paraphrases some of the scenes from the original film, in which two inmates try to communicate their love through a wall that divides their cells. The artist's book, Un chant dA amour, records memories from the film on paper. It is an amorous memento from various film scenes portraying the fleeting nature of passionate love. This perforated book serves also as an object-metaphor of the perforated wall that the lover ..."
"Marcelo Moraes e Silva Egresado en Educación Física y Maestría en Educación por la Universidad Federal de Paraná. Es doctor en Educación por la Universidad Estatal de Campinas. Profesor Adjunto del Departamento de Educación Física de la ..."
"Although best known for his writings on photography, author and artist Alberto Adsuara also creates intimate, erotic images that relate to classic literature and art. This publication presents nearly a decade of these unique "microfilms" in small sequences or stories."
"Imaginario, soberanía y exclusión : la historia como crítica política del presente -- Espectros de ley y cuerpos que importan -- Bordes imaginarios : exclusión y estéticas del afuera."
"In "Fordlandia," British video artist Melanie Smith (born 1965) explores the tensions between industrial and natural landscapes in a factory town situated within the Amazon rainforest. The book is organized as an illustrated conversation log between the artist and the curator."
"German photographer Joachim Schmidt (born 1955) has been working with found photography since the early 1980s. The striking portraits that he collected for this volume were taken by anonymous "lambe-lambe" photographers--a group of street and graffiti artists--in Belo Horizonte, Brazil."
"The Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico City is pleased to present Pseudomatisms, the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the work of media artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer in his native country. Curated by José Luis Barrios and Alejandra Labastida, the exhibition features 42 artworks that span 23 years of production using interactive video, robotics, computerized surveillance, photography and sound sculpture. ..."
"This change is reflected in each of the pieces included in this book, in its transit from two-dimensional to three-dimensional works such as Blade bow compass / Sheet snuff, placed in the Library of Mexico and even in some parts of the ..."
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monstruoso que Elías Canetti describe en el capítulo ... no es sino el cambio que
toma el planteamiento romántico en lo que se refiere a las relaciones entre
técnica, voluntad e historia. ... y que en su versión modernista tendrá 79 Elias
Canetti, Auto de fe, en Obras completas, t. m. Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg,
2003. sus ..."
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CLAVlGERO Fantasmagorias. Mercancia, imagen, museo / José Luis Barrios,
coordinador. Óscar Espinosa Mijares, Francisco Castro Merrifield. José Luis
Barrios. - (Las Lecturas de Sileno) 1 . Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 - Estética. 2.
Arte - Filosofia. 3. Estética - Historia - Siglo XX. l. Castro Merrifield, Francisco. ll.
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Naualli by Marta Palau, JoséLuisBarrios Paperback, 261 Pages, Published 2010 by Instituto De Investigaciones Estéticas ISBN-13: 978-970-32-3577-3, ISBN: 970-32-3577-8
"The book includes texts by art historians: José Luis Barrios, Emilio Carballido, Rita Eder, RenatoGonzález Mello, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Gerardo Mosquera, Francisco Reyes andIda Rodríguez. An important reference."--Provided by vendor."