Tag: reconocimiento

  • Who feels invited

    Who feels invited

    Toda la conversación sobre el arte y la sociedad —la que vengo teniendo en estos textos y la que ocupa a la fundación que dirijo— tiende a mirar hacia el mismo lado: quién produce, quién financia, quién consagra, quién media. Falta la otra orilla, y es la más incómoda de todas: quién recibe, quién se…

  • What we cannot know about the price

    What we cannot know about the price

    On the invisible boundary between building reputation, manipulating the market, and defrauding. Every so often, a scandal of forgery or fraud traverses the art press and reactivates a comfortable suspicion: that the entire market is a fabrication, that prices are smoke, that behind every figure there is a hand pulling the strings.…

  • Working for the love of art

    Working for the love of art

    La expresión es tan común que ya no la oímos: trabajar por amor al arte. Significa, literalmente, trabajar gratis. Y describe con una precisión incómoda cómo se sostiene buena parte del sector cultural, incluido el trabajo de muchas fundaciones. No lo digo desde fuera: lo digo desde una organización con presupuesto ajustado, que conoce de…

  • What we choose to remember

    What we choose to remember

    Solemos hablar del patrimonio como si fuera una categoría natural: hay cosas que, sencillamente, merecen conservarse. Un edificio antiguo, una obra maestra, un yacimiento. Como si el valor estuviera dentro del objeto, esperando a ser reconocido, y conservar consistiera solo en no dejar que se pierda lo que ya vale por sí mismo. La disciplina…

  • Politics is not in the painting

    Politics is not in the painting

    On why the critique of contemporary art is played out in infrastructure and not in the message. There is a very widespread, and very comfortable, idea regarding what renders art political: that it is so by virtue of its subject. A work would be political if it denounces, if it represents a conflict, if it takes a side, if it carries…

  • Art and Good Conscience

    Art and Good Conscience

    Participatory projects currently occupy a significant portion of cultural programming, and certainly a substantial part of the work conducted by a foundation such as the one I direct: workshops with communities, collaborative works, and processes that include those who are typically excluded. They are applauded, almost by default, using a vocabulary with which we are already familiar—inclusive, collaborative, transformative, committed—. And...

  • The impact we claim to have

    The impact we claim to have

    Hay una frase que el mundo de la cultura repite sobre sí mismo con una convicción que rara vez se examina: el arte transforma vidas, la cultura es motor de cambio social, la mediación incluye, cohesiona, repara. La he dicho yo. Está, con otras palabras, en la misión de la fundación que presido. Y precisamente…

  • Declaring to avoid debate

    Declaring to avoid debate

    On the declaration of 'Bien de Interés Cultural' as a device, regarding Extremadura. There is a silent way to win an argument: to make it impossible to discuss. Not through prohibition or censorship, but through a more elegant gesture: elevating the object in dispute to a category that places it above debate. In…

  • The effect of self

    The effect of self

    On self-relevance as the core of aesthetic judgement and its machine boundary. In the two previous texts of this series, I maintained two points. First, that aesthetic understanding rests upon regimes of relevance, and that misunderstanding—between cultures, between humans and machines—is a misalignment of those regimes. Second, that the divergence between attention...

  • Look first, study later

    Look first, study later

    Sobre la autonomía ontológica del acontecimiento artístico Llevo unos días recuperando una pregunta aparentemente ingenua que me hago desde joven. Si cuando vamos al cine vemos primero la película y luego, si nos interesa, leemos sobre ella, ¿por qué con el arte contemporáneo damos por hecho que tenemos que estudiarlo antes de poder mirarlo? Me…

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