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EL TERCER MUNDO Y LA TERCERA GUERRA MUNDIAL

EL TERCER MUNDO Y LA TERCERA GUERRA MUNDIAL Por Magdiel Aspillaga “Hoy en día un cine perfecto- técnica y artísticamente logrado- es casi siempre un cine reaccionario.” “El arte no va a desaparecer en la nada. Va a desaparecer en el todo.” Julio García Espinosa. Por un cine imperfecto. (primera…

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Review “Four minutes, thirty-three seconds”

Performance Beyond Miami’s Parties by Paul David Young 12/06/11 Art in America. The tenth edition of Art Basel Miami Beach was supposed to “reflect a shift toward expanded conceptual, performative and temporal gestures,” according to a curatorial statement. But there was little performance at the main fair, nor at the satellite fairs…

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Archetype Vizcaya’s reviews

Contemporary artist Ernesto Oroza re-presents “Archetype Vizcaya” By Janna Lafferty, Vizcaya Museum & Gardens Examiner April 21st, 2011. http://www.examiner.com There is irony in Ernesto Oroza’s title, “Archetype Vizcaya.” He is less asking his audience to uncover something original and immutable then to point to the many folds of appropriation, redefinition,…

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Object as Index: Ernesto Oroza in conversation with Gean Moreno

Object as Index: Ernesto Oroza in conversation with Gean Moreno In Florian Borchmeyer and Matthias Hentschler’s lop-sided film Havana: The New Art of Making Ruins, 2006, Cuban writer António José Ponte, one of the protagonists, fires up his brain’s associative engine. Eruditely crossfading from Thomas Mann to Georg Simmel to Jean Cocteau,…

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