Fundamentos de semiótica y lingüística

Number 13 of the series gets together 2 thesis submitted for the degree of the Masters in History and Theory of Art and Architecture, focused on the relationship between the political discourse and how Columbian art was critically interpreted in different epochs. Lleras examines the state involvement in art through the works of Carlos Correa and Pedro Nel Gómez amongst others while Jaramillo documents the plastic language used by Marco Ospina, Enrique Grau, and Alejandro Obregón amongst others who incorporated European avant-garde elements to become pioneer artists of modernism in Colombia.

Light, words, and the ephemeral -that shifting condition of random- are concepts present in some form in the entire oeuvre of Chema Alvargonzalez (1960-2009), an artist who divided the two decades of his career between Barcelona and Berlin. Whereas Bruce Nauman and Dan Flavin are Alvargonzalez's direct sources in the way he configures the space through experimentation with lighting, Mallarmé serves as the basis of his linguistic approach to the practice of art. Alvargonzalez often accords words the status of objects which -rather than locking in a meaning- enables him to achieve a semantic...

"Annotated catalogue of the collection of antique pieces of Mesopotamian, Egyptian,Greek, Etruscan and Roman art from the private collection of Dr. Joaquín GumáHerrera, Count of Lagunillas (b. Cuba 1909-1980), some donations of the Cuban ScienceAcademy and Dr. Antonio Nieto and at present part of the holdings of the Museum of Fine Arts.The catalogue includes scientific research contributions from three prestigious specialists: AymeChcuri for the section devoted to Egypt; doctor Maria Castro Miranda for the Greek classicobjects and philologist Ana Vilma Castellanos Bisset with texts on the...

"Titita y la voz" es una obra dividida en dos hemiciclos con la cual se trata de reivindicar la figura de Giovanni Battista Meneghini, el legítimo y único esposo de la soprano "assoluta" del siglo 20. "Titta", apodo dado a Meneghini quien en su relación matrimonial con María, lo dio todo sabiendo tolerar el sufrimiento de la traición y sabiendo también esperar con paciencia en ver manifestada para él la Justicia Divina, sin amargura o resentimiento. En "Titta y la Voz" se evidencia como un hombre de entereza moral, ya entrado en años es subyugado y aprisionado por una voz poco usual...