Los Retratos en Chino de Aldo Menéndez

Retratos en Chino es el título de un proyecto que comencé a realizar en el año 2010 y que ha terminado siendo una instalación, que ahora expongo por primera vez formando parte de una retrospectiva que abarca los últimos 20 años de trabajo (1999-2019), etapa con sus propios rasgos de identidad con lo que creo es un mismo perfil estilístico y que se presenta en … Continue reading Los Retratos en Chino de Aldo Menéndez

Collage Culture: Nostalgia and Critique

Rick Poynor | Interviews Most studies of collage published to date have tended to treat the subject in art historical terms. Today, collage is thriving but its enduring attraction goes largely unexplained. In a new book, Collage Culture: Readymades, Meaning, and the Age of Consumption (Rodopi), David Banash develops a theory of the origins and meaning of collage that views the combination of readymade elements as central to … Continue reading Collage Culture: Nostalgia and Critique

COLLAGE

by Clement Greenberg Collage was a major turning point in the evolution of Cubism, and therefore a major turning point in the whole evolution of modernist art in this century. Who invented collage–Braque or Picasso–and when is still not settled. Both artists left most of the work they did between I907 and 1914 undated as well as unsigned; and each claims, or implies the claim, that … Continue reading COLLAGE