Backroom Caracas

As you arrive at the show, you don’t know how to begin the tour: the images are all playing at the same time in the same place; all the senses are suddenly excited, searching for a cue to approach the work of one of performance art’s most important figures. For me, she is an obligatory | ... |

Las aventuras de Guille y Belinda y el enigmático significado de sus sueños. Fotografías de Alessandra Sanguinetti. Editorial Idea12na. Impreso en Buenos Aires, 2006.

A look at Marilyn Monroe, a book by Norman Mailer and Bert Stern, published by Taschen in 2012. This edition joins together her famous and controversial biography by Norman Mailer and photos from «The Last Sitting,» a legendary session that produced what are considered the most intimate snapshots ever taken of Marilyn. The book commemorates | ... |

Max Provenzano (1986) is a Venezuelan artist based in Caracas. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Universidad Central de Venezuela (2011). He began his artistic career in 2009, experimenting mainly with painting, photography, installation, video, and performance. He has taken training courses at the Organización Nelson Garrido (ONG), Galería de Arte Nacional, Museo | ... |

To digitize and make available this book for free was born as an impulse from the sincerity that its reading transmits. El territorio del arte es enigmático is a primary source of abstract art theory in Venezuela, but which also allows the intimate gesture of accompanying Alejandro Otero in a visit to El Castillete and share anecdotes with Reverón, to discover the epiphany that kept him forever tied to painting, or to draw the boundary between art and design.

  Es posible que salte a la vista del lector como algo obvio –como todo lo que queda preso de un discurso–, el tinte que da el encadenamiento del título que elegí para este texto. Entonces debo advertir que, aunque quizás lleguemos al mismo punto, el recorrido no exhibirá enemigos que apedrear, ni padres a | ... |

Carlos Martiel (Havana, 1989) is a performance artist graduated from the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro in Havana (2009). He studied at the Cátedra Arte de Conducta, directed by artist Tania Bruguera.   His works have been showcased at the Havana, Pontevedra, Liverpool and Casablanca biennials, as well as Bogota’s «La Otra» Biennial | ... |

La mujerfuente, uno de mis personajes arquetipales femeninos, se activa haciendo presencia en la acción plástica: La vaguada, porque “la lluvia la llevamos bien adentro”. Ella canta himnos desde sus entrañas y se ahoga con el agua. Esta acción nace en 2005 cuando encuentro en mis archivos la noticia de una niña rescatada en la tragedia de Vargas. La pequeña se salvó porque la oyeron cantando bajo los escombros de su casa, derrumbada por las lluvias que destruyeron Macuto.

Correspondencia entre imágenes de Susan Worsham, Barr Farber, Bert Pauw, Calypso Mahieu, Víctor Erice, Ignacio Fanti, Lexie Smith, Lucas Blalock, Molly Matalon y Damien Maloney, Geray Santana Mena, Harley Weir, Sarah Lucas y Alex Da Corte y Jayson Musson.

A look at Candida Höfer’s photobook Fotografien 2004 – 2005, printed by Schirmer / Mosel Verlagen Editions in 2005. Special thanks to Luis Molina-Pantin.