La princesa inca

This in-depth look at Latin American art explores the complexity of the contemporary aesthetic and cultural milieu in this vast and diverse region of the world, focusing on a critical re-reading of the Baroque in Latin America and its curious function as an important cultural metaphor. The diversity of artists represented--hailing from South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United States--serves to critique and recuperate this concept of the Baroque that has become increasingly clichéd and misunderstood. With art by Ruben Ortiz Torres, Miguel Calderon, Rochelle Costi, Arturo Duclos,...

1. Renata Fernández 2. Texturas virtuales 3. Walk Like a Glacier 4. Desnudos psicodélicos 5. Black Rock City

Según el concepto platónico de belleza, ésta se manifiesta en los objetos que son simplemente útiles. Siendo así, la radical utilidad de la tipografía exalta la suya en una epifanía tan espléndida en su variedad como recatada en su ostentación. En efecto, pese a tenerla siempre a la vista, la tipografía resulta casi invisible. Arte en la tipografía y tipografía en el arte propone contemplar esa belleza útil desde un ángulo apasionado, ofreciendo algunas de las más geniales creaciones, modelos o prototipos. Si el tipo de imprenta resume tantas propiedades plásticas es porque,...

Taking the city as a laboratory, Fugitive Sites challenges the predictable radicality of global art projects, the usual notions of site specificity, community engagement, artistic practice and public space. Initiated in 1992 as a collaborative venture of cultural institutions in San Diego and Tijuana, inSITE commissions new work by artists from the Americas that responds to the extraordinary context of these two inextricably linked border cities, and is reinvented according to the shifting interests of artists and public institutions in Mexico. This most recent version of inSITE reconfigures...