Categoría: Arte Contemporáneo
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Francis Bacon interviewed by David Sylvester
Francis Bacon by David Sylvester ‘One continuous accident mounting on top of another’ An edited extract from Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester in 1963, 1966 and 1979 The Guardian, September 2007 David Sylvester: Have you ever had any desire at all to do an abstract painting? Francis Bacon: I’ve had a desire…
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Lucien Freud by David Kamp
Freud, Interrupted. (February 2012) Lucian Freud, who died last year, still creating masterpieces at 88, was intensely private, rejecting the idea that an artist’s life mattered to his art. But Sigmund’s grandson, arguably the greatest portrait painter of his era, forged his closest bonds in his studio. With two major Freud retrospectives in view, David…
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Paula Rego
Paula Rego (Lisboa, 1935) es una de las pintoras figurativas más relevantes de la escena internacional y una de las voces plásticas más lúcidas y combativas surgidas en la segunda mitad del siglo XX. La producción artística de Rego está enraizada en experiencias y recuerdos personales, en siniestras fantasías, en la historia del arte y…
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Tony Bevan
Tony Bevan (b.1951) is one of Britain’s most distinctive figurative painters. Since the early 1980s he has been making images in acrylic and charcoal that extend the tradition of expressive figure-based painting associated with such older painters as Francis Bacon and Frank Auerbach. Bevan’s singular approach focuses in particular on the human head which is…
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David Hockney – CAMARA WORKS
David Hockney / CAMARA WORKS David Hockney is a great painter,but he has also known fame through photography, although he does not mince his words when he says ‘Photography will never equal painting!’ Perhaps this is the wrong argument as they are different media and needn’t be compared. However he does make judgemental comments about…
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Michael Borremans – Whistling a happy Tune
Michaël Borremans WHISTLING A HAPPY TUNE (2008) es el título de una publicación que recoge la última obra dibujada de Michaël Borremans (1963, Geraardsbergen). Como podemos comprobar por el título no vamos a sacar una información clara sobre los contenidos temáticos o sobre las técnicas empleadas por el autor. Sin embargo, es fiel a…
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Philip Akkerman – Interview
Taking self-portrait as his sole subject, Philip Akkerman (*1957, Vaassen, NL) decided to pursue a career in painting at the tender age of 18 when the others were announcing heroically to him the tragic death of painting. “How can painting be dead if I wanted to paint so much?” In the last 30 years, Akkerman…
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Wolfe Von Lenkiewicz
Wolfe von Lenkiewicz (British, b. 1966) Wolfe von Lenkiewicz’s chief artistic concern is the appropriation of language and mythology. He boldly experiments with hybrid visual combinations that straddle the murky borders of the shocking and offensive. His art historical intervention demonstrates our own complacency of art towards famous images, namely those highly learnt visual compositions…
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Cy Twombly interviewed by Nicholas Serota
Nicholas Serota on Cy Twombly I first became aware of Cy Twombly’s work in the early 1970s, through catalogues and occasional sightings in European museums of his sensitive and sometimes luscious paintings, with their highly personal response to classical cultures and contemporary painting. It is always a privilege to visit an artist in their studio.…
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Avigdor Arikha
Avigdor Arikha, pintor francoisraelí fallecido el 29 de abril de 2010 en París, un día después de cumplir los 81 años, era un maestro a la hora de inmortalizar escenas cotidianas de enigmática belleza. Los críticos de arte han resaltado que, pese a la luminosidad vital que domina sus cuadros, consiguió dotarles también de una…
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Philip Pearlstein / From Robert Hughes
The Philip Pearlstein retrospective now at the Brooklyn Museum [review published in 1983], curated by Russell Bowman, is a dense and satisfying show. Pearlstein’s work has not lost its episodic power of surprise: one tends to feel more familiar with it than one is. What is so new about a nude in a room, done…
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Yan Pei-Ming
Yan Pei-Ming (Chinese, b.1960) is a painter most known for his epic-sized portraits of Mao Zedong, finished with large expressive brushstrokes and sparse use of color. Born in Shanghai during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Yan took up painting as a hobby, later applying to the Shanghai Art and Design School, where he was rejected because of…
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Gerhard Richter
Este exitoso pintor alemán nació el 9 de febrero de 1932 en Dresde y creció en la región de Alta Lusacia. Luego de llegar a la conclusión de que en el sistema de la RDA no podía ser lo suficientemente creativo, Richter huyó con su esposa de entonces, Marianne, a Berlín Occidental. Todo lo que llevaban consigo…
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Hockney, David : Secret Knowledge / Conocimiento Secreto
«El redescubrimiento de las técnicas perdidas de los grandes maestros» Dice Hockney en el libro: «Cuando salí de la exposición “El genio de Roma” de la Royal Academy en enero de 2001, en la calle me paró un estudiante del Royal Academy Schools. Me preguntó si iba a dar una charla en las escuelas. Le…
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Tom Of Finland – Institute of Contemporary Arts, UK
Tom of Finland’s sultry bikers and lumberjacks are storming art galleries. A mainstay of gay erotic art for decades, the Finnish artist’s illustrations have been increasingly embraced by the contemporary art world, no doubt admiring their urgent message and titillated in equal measure. Yet the artist’s work has only been shown in England once, as…
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Ellen Altfest – Mirada meticulosa
Altfest, de 42 años, se ha convertido en una pintora muy respetada durante la última década por sus trabajadísimos lienzos, que observan las cosas del mundo —cactus, plantas rodadoras, tuberías oxidadas, extensiones íntimas de cuerpos masculinos — con una atención obsesiva. Jenny Moore, conservadora del Nuevo museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Nueva York, que organizó el año pasado…
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Hera Kut – Urban Art
El colectivo alemán conocido como “Herakut” lo forman dos artistas: Hera, de Frankfurt y Akut, de Erfurt. Empezaron a pintar juntos después de conocerse en el Festival Urbano de Artes de Sevilla, en 2004; antes de eso, sólo sabían del trabajo de cada uno por publicaciones en revistas de arte urbano y grafiti. A pesar…
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Jean Michel Basquiat – Gagosian Gallery HK
http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/jean-michel-basquiat–may-21-2013/exhibition-video I don’t think about art while I work. I try to think about life. —Jean-Michel Basquiat Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce the first exhibition in Hong Kong of paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat. An acclaimed exhibition at Gagosian New York earlier this year drew tens of thousands of visitors, attesting to Basquiat’s acute relevance…
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Jason Shawn Alexander – Blood & Whisky
Jason Shawn Alexander (B. 1975) Painter and draftsman from Tennessee, currently resides and works in Los Angeles, California. Though modern in its subject matter, Alexander’s work pulls, still, from the vulnerability, fear, and underlying strength that come from his rural upbringing. Much like good Delta Blues, his work maintains a sense of pain and passion…
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Eric Fischl – The bed, The chair, The sitter
Si bien sus primeras obras están cercanas a la abstracción, a partir de 1976 introduce elementos figurativos, derivando a finales de los setenta hacia un estilo realista de fuerte carácter expresivo, con influencia de expresionistas como Max Beckmann, Lucien Freud o pintores de la tradición naturalista norteamericana, como Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent o Edward Hopper. Su temática se…
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Michael Hussar – Gothic Wonderland
Driven by love, hate, sin, redemption and death, Michael Hussar’s oil paintings present the viewer with a contextual maturity that is both confrontational and evocative. Hussar describes his work as «a voyeuristic snapshot of perceived humanity, complete with freaks and fakery; a gothic wonderland illuminating the gray area between truths and lies.» Hussar’s attachment to…
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Jenny Saville. Exposición en Gagosian Gallery, NY
http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/jenny-saville–september-15-2011/exhibition-video http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/leonardo-playlist/*/chooseMedia/7/
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Hendrik Kerstens (1956)
http://www.danzigergallery.com/exhibition/hendrik-kerstens http://www.hendrikkerstens.com Press Release Hendrik Kerstens in Danziger Gallery January 10 – February 16, 2013 Born in the Hague in 1956, Hendrik Kerstens has for the last 17 years been producing an ongoing body of work that explores some of the many intersections between painting and photography. Using his daughter Paula as his only subject,…
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Lucien Freud
Lucian Freud es considerado uno de los máximos representantes de la corriente figurativa británica de la segunda mitad del siglo XX que ha dado en llamarse la Escuela de Londres. En sus retratos, centrados principalmente en las personas de su entorno próximo, Freud consigue desvelar la vulnerabilidad del cuerpo humano a través de la carnalidad…