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Sound variations as visual material in Richard Garet
By Pietro Daprano.Richard Garet. Perceptual Sonic Landscape. Midnight Blink, 2015. Moving Image. 00 02 50Richard Garet (Montevideo, 1972) is a multimedia artist who received an MFA from Bard College, USA, and was part of Soundings: A Contemporary Score at MoMA, New York, in...
The Hedonistic Era of Ultra Violet’s Last Supper
By Pietro Daprano.Ultra Violet. The Last Supper, 1972. Photography. 9 x 14 in (23 x 35,5 cm). © Ultra Violet.Isabelle Collin Dufresne (French/American, b.1935 in La Tronche-d.2014 in New York) was a bohemian superstar performer and actress in dozens of Andy Warhol's...
Ideology, History and the Significant in Gonzalo Fuenmayor
By Pietro Daprano.Gonzalo Fuenmayor Mr. Bananaman, 2013 Photography. Edition 2/5 + A/P 39,3 x 25,9 in (100 x 66 cm) © Gonzalo Fuenmayor.Gonzalo Fuenmayor (born in Barranquilla, Colombia, in 1977) is a contemporary artist based in Miami, Florida. His work resembles...
Art, Money, and Social Anatomy. Luis Salazar
By Pietro Daprano.Luis Salazar.Untitled (Art lovers fuck off)2007. Mixed media. 56,69 x 55,51 in (144 x 141 cm)Luis Salazar. Untitled (Chanel N5). 2007 Mixed media. 55,51 x 65,74 in (141 x 167 cm)Questioning the cultural stereotypes of contemporaneity is one of the qualities of...
Jessica Sofia Mitrani and the complexities of femininity stereotypes
By Pietro Daprano.Jessica Sofia MitraniNora on the Beach. (Five appropriated images of Nora Mitrani, from the Hans Bellmer archive)2010Inkjet and color pencils on watercolor paper22 x 22 in (56 x 56 cm)Jessica Sofia Mitrani is a Colombian filmmaker and artist based in New York....
Trans visibility
By Pietro Daprano.Cesar Rojas. Transformacion Series, 2007. 2007. Photography. 14 x 10 in (38 x 25 cm)The invisibilization applied to any social group is very dangerous, as well as homophobia and other risk factors that can compromise the health or life of people. The...
La morfogénesis de Beto Gutierrez
By Pietro Daprano. Beto Gutierrez. La cara verdadera de los ángeles, 2005-2010. Photography. 20 x 16 in (51 x 41 cm) Con el titulo La cara verdadera de los ángeles (2005-2010) el artista Beto Gutierrez desarrolló una serie de retratos fotográficos que según su planteamiento,...
Hamlet Lavastida. La era del Carisma, 2012.
By Pietro Daprano. Scenes from La era del Carisma, 2012 (The Age of Charisma, 2012). Stop Motion Video Loop. Color & Sound, 00:04:05 by © Hamlet Lavastida. All rights reserved. When we learned of the determination of the ideas, anxieties, and concerns for political art of...
The Foundation for the Totality: Melancholy and Vision.
By Pietro Daprano. Rolando Peña “Photomatons”. Different Momento, 1967. Photo collage. 7.25 x 7.75 inches (18.41 x 19.68 cms). In 1965 artist Rolando Peña (Venezuela 1942) rented a small studio on 10th Street and Second Avenue in the Lower East Side of the East Village in New...