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Becoming Other Being Oneself: Francis Alÿs Inside the Borderline

Were it possible to sum up the work of Francis Alÿs in a very few words, it might be said that it consists of [the] drawing [of] a line. In fact, many are the works in which the drawing of a line emerges as a decisive, foundational factor. Without pretense of exhausting examples – or even systems – about this, one need only recall the line…

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Lorenzato, the grandeur of modesty

Amedeo Luciano Lorenzato is a unique artist within the setting of Brazilian plastic art. Virtually unknown outside his home state of Minas Gerais, the region where he was born and where he created his vast collection of works, he is however, one of the best 20th Century Brazilian painters, and his importance should and needs to be recognised and appraised. Lorenzato is pure painting – this is how he is quite fairly defined by Maria Angélica Melendi, in the book that was dedicated to him and published in 2011.
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Bio-information and Latin American Art – A Provocation

The “cybernetic shift” that has been giving growing relevance since the 1960s to information (digital and/or genetic) in all spheres of human activity in order to reconfigure our understanding of life, work and knowledge, does not yet seem to have managed to trigger off in artists an awareness of the radical change of perspective it requires. Indeed, anyone frequenting contemporary art exhibitions and wishing to compare…

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