My kind of art gallery.
KYMdb - Limecat
My kind of art gallery.
KYMdb - Limecat
#obsessedwith
Piero della Francesca, Portraits of Federico da Montefeltro and His Wife Battista Sforza, 1465-66
violentpony asked: hey! that's funny, i'm mexican too (though i grew up in france) and i'm leaving in neuchâtel... well, st-blaise actually. what brought you here?
Hello! Should I answer in French? Should I answer in English? It’s all so confusing!! = S
I moved to Neuch last year to study a master’s at the UniNE, which is what I’m currently working towards in an indirect/sloppy/experimental way (I took courses at Lausanne too). How about yourself? What brought you to Saint-Blaise?
Makes me homesick…
“Vermont Avenue & Wishire Boulevard, 1979” by Anthony Hernandez, from the seminal book of photographs Waiting, Sitting, Fishing and Some Automobiles, published by John Gossage’s Loosestrife Editions.
See a slideshow of some of the spreads in the book here.
Waiting for an institution to do a really big retrospective of Hernandez’s work.
Just when you thought you’d found a place where people were a little less prejudiced, a little less Eurocentric, this pops up on the huge public square right across the street from my apartment. Mexico as funhouse, you know that desert-like country filled with lazy, bean-mashing machistas? Oh, and they’re all armed too…
A theme I studied up on recently, for an upcoming show in Neuchâtel featuring a similar scene by local painter Théophile Robert. I didn’t know of this one!
p.s. Hélène Cixous wrote a nice poetic anaylsis on Rembrandt’s rendition of Bathsheba, for those who can access JSTOR…
Jan Steen, Bathsheba Receiving David’s Letter, c. 1659
Great! But can we also talk about how she died? (Hint: Her husband Carl Andre may have been responsible)
Ana Mendieta, Untitled (Grass On Woman), 1972
From the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden:
The “Silueta Series” is one of Mendieta’s projects most representative of her study of ancient cultures, fascination with cross-cultural archetypes, and engagement with themes of gender and identity. These performances involved a contour of her body outlined in the earth or her silhouette constructed with leaves, twigs, blood, or various other organic materials. Mendieta’s paintings and sculptures mirror the ephemeral nature of her “Silueta” performances since she continued to work with organic materials, especially leaves that inevitably become transformed over time.
From Blackstock show at Lausanne’s Art Brut Collection (Collection de l’Art Brut).
Everywhere in Latin America one finds a tremendous resentment of the United States, and that resentment is always strongest among the poorer and darker peoples of the continent. The life and destiny of Latin America are in the hands of United States corporations. The decisions affecting the lives of South Americans are ostensibly made by their government, but there are almost no legitimate democracies alive in the whole continent. The other governments are dominated by huge and exploitative cartels that rob Latin America of her resources while turning over a small rebate to a few members of the corrupt aristocracy, which in turn invests not in its own country for its own people’s welfare but in the banks of Switzerland and the playgrounds of the world.
– Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)
(Source: fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory)
Why did you leave everything behind? -I prefer the open road and champagne.
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Mona from Sans toit ni loi by Agnes Varda. Best film quote ever…
