Cecile Perra‘s website can be seen here.
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The need for historical consciousness: the artist and the political conditioning of art
Caption (image above): untitled, Sofia Silva. From time to time I go back to this issue. It’s inevitable. With no surprise, the modern art world (at least what is made visible) has always been contaminated by the capitalist relationships that structure our societal living. This month, I came across some events, news and debates about…
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Collages by Timothy Nolan
More of Timothy Nolan’s work here. In my current work, I start with handmade collages, combining photography of unique geological terrain, outdated scientific graphics, and Art Deco patterns. These are scanned, digitally and manually marked, cut, and re-collaged. The larger works are then printed on aluminum or vinyl (in the case of the recent wall…
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Lewis Bush, narrative and fiction
caption (image above): Self-published box – The Memory of History, by Lewis Bush, 2012. I’ve recently arrive at Lewis Bush virtual sphere (aka blog) and am coming out with that feeling of content and surprise that is often too rare. A friend had sent me a message with a text about Don McCullin’s retrospective @…
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Artists killing art in order to make money to make art
Everything is workshopable these days. It’s an amazing thing. We can either learn to do things watching youtube videos or we can learn pretty much every technique attending workshops about this and that. As I see it, there’s clearly something weird about this. I’m not sure what it is, but somehow it affects the way…
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A bridge – the art of Duarte Amaral Netto & Valter Ventura (Nihilsentimentalgia’s Early Years)
I met Duarte and Valter when doing my undergrad in photography. Both were my teachers and tutors and for quite some time that was the role assigned to them. In September 2008 brief notes were made about both of them. At the time, Valter was working with José Nuno Lamas, exploring landscape, performance and play. Duarte was finding his…
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Phototherapy and the idea of truth (Nihilsentimentalgia’s Early Years)
As Nihilsentimentalgia’s early readers know well, at the core of this platform is an interest for the idea of phototherapy and, consequently, different approaches to the idea of self. Throughout the years, I’ve done my experiments using photography as a personal therapeutic tool and I’ve come to the conclusion that it doesn’t really work for…
Read More٠”There’s always something authentic concealed in every forgery” ٠
La migliore offerta, 2013. Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. Music by Ennio Morricone.
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٠ Simultaneity: art & science coming together to ocupy the brain? ٠
“The Negation of Time, Prologue” at Le Laboratoire, by William Kentridge with Peter Galison and Philip Miller (Photograph by Phase One Photography) It’s possible that scientists and artists may have one side of their brain more dominant than the other, with the broadly opposite characteristics of logic and creativity, but the best innovations in both…
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“R e s i s t a n t v i s u a l c u l t r e is not about art or traditional activism. It is a method for building a real, living culture. As opposed to a vocation or sentimental pursuit, I think of this field as a way…
Read More┐ Agamben └
© Luis Palácios, 2012 “Now we can begin to understand why ceremonial and liturgy are so essential to power. It is a question of holding them and registering them in a separate sphere of the central inactivity of human life. Power places solidly at its centre, in the form of celebration and glory, what appears…
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┐ Rita Nowak └
© Rita Nowak, Zenita Komad, 2004 © Rita Nowak, Venus in Furs, 2005 Starting with an intense engagement with the self-portrait as a genre, two years ago Rita Nowak began reenacting famous masterworks with artist friends. In choosing the works to model, Nowak works associatively in that some works—due to certain gestures and moods—trigger memories…
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N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A, 