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Cosmopoética 2010: El jardín de la inocencia
Perhaps one of the greatest virtues of Cosmopoética is its ability to create intra-stories in the streets, those corridors between high culture and citizens who intermingle like wild climbing plants until they form a thick and invisible blanket of experiences, encounters, smiles and discoveries. In addition to promoting reading and expanding knowledge to unexpected confines, the International Poetry Festival of Córdoba, one of the most important of its kind in Europe, turns the city, for ten days, into a true enclave for dialogue, a shared territory where different expressive disciplines overlap in order to soak naturally into the metropolitan epidermis and the day-to-day pulse of its inhabitants. In this sense, perhaps one of the most striking experiences in this seventh edition of the festival has been El jardín de la inocencia [The Garden of Innocence], a large joint work developed by four painters and twelve poets1, which has turned a central public space into an original oasis of synaesthesias where the literary and the pictorial coexist.
Read more...William Kentridge: Five Themes at the MoMA
“…circumscribing his own work to a world haunted by the invisible powers of the Other”1 seems to be a part of the art practice of William Kentridge. In his exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, on show until the 17th of May, his five most recurrent themes lead us into a universe of frenzied gestures, which are not usually the ones chosen to convey a violent and paradoxical social-political reality.
Read more...The Modern Art Museum of Medellín and its new headquarters
It is an increasingly common practice to restore old industrial buildings and use them as cultural spaces; it tends to be part of ambitious urban renewal projects for underused or unused areas, which become more central and accessible as a result of urban sprawl. London, Bilbao, Barcelona and Buenos Aires have turned formerly semi-derelict areas once populated by factories and warehouses into luxurious neighbourhoods where magnificent buildings, formerly used as factory premises and boasting imposing architectural structures, have become excellent settings for current art practices in their many and varied expressions.
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