“Jardim de Entropias sob Brahma Grama”

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“Entropy Garden under Brahma Grass” The installation “Ecology: the necessary evil” specially designed and executed for the La Posta Foundation space by the artists Janice Martins Appel and Domingo Mestre (Serpiente de 2 Cabezas), with elements built specifically for the occasion and other natural ones as still lifes (in a multimedia context that includes various video projections, transparencies, etc.), it can be visited from May 12 to June 10, 2023 and will serve as the setting for a large program of activities.


Spurensicherung in “Cross-border Motherhood” by Gabriela Rivera Lucero

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The first thing that draws attention in the photographs that are exhibited in "Cross-border Motherhood" by Gabriela Rivera Lucero, is that the photographs show the traces of an intervention on them. The artist herself has explained that the negatives were introduced before their development in a liquid in which objects and vegetable plants related to the life experience of the photographed women had been bathed. There is a call to incorporate memories and images that tell us about other things that are beyond the image that is shown, as indications of something that cannot be seen but that can be sensed. With this, Gabriela's work is part of a current of thought and work that seeks to discover the past in the small signs that appear before us, many times without having been summoned.


25 years of Modern Architecture in Valencia (1950-1975). Text complete

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Our architectural heritage is an element of cultural identity and of great collective wealth. The study of it must be important for the dissemination, knowledge and enjoyment of future generations. There are many interesting buildings in the city of Valencia that do not have an adequate study. In the same way it happens with a large number of architects, with works of great importance in those years, who do not have their own monograph.


El Perellonet, the “monot” and the transfer of knowledge

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Sometimes extreme situations serve to spur the human imagination. At the beginning of the 20th century, some men from the city of Valencia, fed up with starving themselves and their families, decide to seek their fortune (or at least eat), settling in the 30s of the last century in some barracks next to the gola del Perellonet, and decide to dedicate themselves to elver fishing. They were the first in Spain to have that idea, and to carry it out they devised a unique artifact of its kind: the monot.


Of riggings and monuments or about the “Monot” by Ana Lloret

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A snow shovel was probably the first work tool turned into a work of art, in Marcel Duchamp's New York studio in 1915. It was about questioning the status of the artistic object from a perspective that complied with the modern demand that the art was proper of its time, of its historical moment. The provocative and burlesque spirit of Duchamp was used by Claes Oldenburg to, from the pop tradition, represent everyday utensils (shovels, hammers, saws, spoons...) with a diagrammatic aspect, an exaggerated scale and a denatured context that sought to cause some confusion in the viewer that will force him to reflect on his relationship with culture and art.


Documenta fifteen (2022) brings knowledge from Indonesia

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As is well known, the curatorial team chosen to organize the next Documenta (fifteen, 2022), is the group of artists, curators, cultural managers and social promoters ruangrupa (with lower case letters and everything together; it means in Indonesian “space [ruang] for the arte [rupa]”), a group based in Jakarta (Indonesia).


2019-2020 season summary: the year of COVID-19

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The 2019-2020 season has been marked by the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the state of alarm was declared on March 14 and the confinement was ordered, nothing has been the same.