Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
Art and Ideas from Latin America
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Repoliticizing Modernity: Military Spectacles in Venezuela

Lisa Blackmore

Excerpted from her book Spectacular Modernity, Lisa Blackmore’s statement posits that the political, social, and cultural forces that converged to create Venezuela’s “modern spirit” in the mid-20th century unfolded as a spectacle, revealing the spaces, practices, and aspects of life comprising the combined aesthetic and political agenda of its power relations. More

Dulce Gómez talks about her works

"For me, painting is a way of creating a space for contemplation, but it’s also a way of finding and removing those internal dams, to better see the moment that is happening." More

Interview with Luis Ospina

In this interview, the artist Ángela Bonadies talks with Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina about "pornomiseria," a term he coined, as a resource that some filmmakers practice with "a mix of committed exoticism and adventurous tourism" to speculate on and exploit poverty to attract audiences. More

Oswaldo Terreros talks about his work

In this case I went back to Otovalan weaving as a technique to reproduce the image because I was interested in commissioning production from people within the communities represented in the images... More

When Computational Devices are Used for the Visual Arts

In his article “When Computational Devices are Used for the Visual Arts” Augusto Gerardi cites a seminal exhibition of computer-generated art in Caracas curated by German philosopher and information theorist Max Bense. Opened in 1974, the show was one of the first instances in which the creative capacity of computers was explored and cybernetics was introduced into the field of art. More

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