Historia del arte, I

La Cerca,” Fenci's solo exhibition, opened at the state museum in Chihuahua City, Chihuahua, Mexico. The exhibition, which includes twenty-four ceramic pieces, a 5-foot-by-9-foot drawing and several smaller drawings, is the culmination of two years of work, both on the art and in negotiations with the museum officials. All of the works in some way or another deal with defense strategies, and so Fenci chose the Spanish translation for The Wall” as the exhibition's title. We build these elaborate structures that give us a sense of safety and protection, but the fact is, they're all...

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...

Allow form and color to bring you joy, completeness, and harmony through this collection of mandalas.

'Una tipografía debe estar diseñada de tal manera que nadie repare en ella.' Tras la aparente simplicidad de esta afirmación de Adrian Frutiger se esconden varios decenios dedicados al diseño de tipografías y al estudio de la forma en que los seres humanos interactúan con ellas. Frutiger se niega a concebir la tipografía como un fin en sí mismo, apuesta por subordinar el diseño a su finalidad práctica de servicio a las personas y defiende que el máximo logro al que puede aspirar el diseñador de tipos es que su tipografía pase desapercibida en su lectura. La tipografía debe estar ...