Have you ever heard that line about how «everything's already been invented» in this or that activity? It usually gets trotted out to justify a lack of novelty in a given field. Is everything already invented…
Yellow, blue and red, not just in the flag but in the air surrounding and reflecting off the naked body of a broken man weeping over a coffin. This is Los hijos de la violencia, one of…
Jesús Monge Cebolla is a many-sided artist whose career begins in the 70s, close to the Forma group. Early on he painted some abstract pictures (who would have guessed, looking at his…
An artist's evolution shows, among other things, the desire to explore, to look for new ways of expression. The artwork by Mayra Lifich (Buenos Aires, 1969) on Artelista shows that…
Let's look at two artworks: Sol de medianoche and CafĂ© al Sol de Medianoche. In the first, we see two half-empty (or half-full) glasses, a hat, a copy of El PaĂs and… a trumpet. In the…
«I'm my own reference». That's how the artist answered the usual question about influences in artistic creation. But that painter wasn't Monique Van Steen (1976, Breda, Holland), it was just…
«If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the natural alliance it will find in the stupidity of the…
For all the force and expressiveness that Claudia Barbu's artwork gives off, it isn't easy to find a guiding thread in her output. That's the risk of eclecticism, of combining formal devices from…