by Pablo | May 3, 2009 | Artists, Blogt
Bevis Martin & Charlie Youle do some defacing on their Natural Education project. “What does Jean-Jacques Rousseau tell us? He says that we are born weak, that we are born stupid, without judgement; unprovided for, we need aid. This aid will come to us from...
by Pablo | May 1, 2009 | Blogt, Photos
Drawing my friends for the second defacing project was an interesting and enriching process where I tried to match my perception of their personality with their portrait and that was quite a reminiscent approach that in most cases brought me a smile. Drawing dictators...
by Pablo | Apr 26, 2009 | Artists, Blogt, Photos
While researching the images to use in upcoming exhibition Not Welcome from my Defacing Art Project, I found this artist that imagines portraits of dictators as boys. I found this approach to representation of power and sociopolitical systems very interesting:...
by Pablo | Apr 21, 2009 | Art Texts, Blogt
The radicant is becoming my little white bible… “In ordinary language, ‘modernizing’ has come to mean reducing cultural and social reality to Western formats. And today, modernism amounts to a form of complicity with colonialism and Eurocentrism. Let us bet on a...
by Pablo | Apr 19, 2009 | Art Texts, Blogt
POSTMODERNISM IS DEAD A new modernity is emerging, reconfigured to an age of globalisation – understood in its economic, political and cultural aspects: an altermodern culture Increased communication, travel and migration are affecting the way we live Our daily lives...
