Category: Texts and Publications

DATE PAINTING: THE POWER OF A SIMPLE IDEA

7 January, 2016

January 4 2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the date painting series by the Japanese artist On Kawara’s (1932-2014)–“Today”. These acrylic on canvas paintings were each finished on the same day that they were begun. When the clock struck twelve on the date in question, if the painting was not finished, it was immediately…

Arte a Millón (Art for Million)

14 December, 2015

I do not do art for sale. I do art because I like it and because I believe it is important for culture. But I am not opposed to selling my works. When somebody decides to buy one of my works, I am very pleased. It is most satisfactory to know that a person wishes to…

RETORICA [Y] CROMÁTICA (RHETORIC AND CHROMATICS)

3 December, 2015

The works displayed by Iván Cardona revolve around ideas related to the word, the press, ideology, politics and painting. Several of them are based on the study, comparison and use of newspapers such as El Tiempo, El Espectador and Voz. Behind this choice lies the conviction that these media are representative of our intellectual circle…

El color de la Post-democracia (THE COLOR OF POST-DEMOCRACY)

4 November, 2015

(THE COLOR OF POST-DEMOCRACY) Jacques Rancière introduced the term of post-democracy, he says, to refer to a sad situation [1]: one where democracy has been boxed into the category of unrealizable or falsely promoted ideas, another utopia … post-democracy is. “the proposition of a democracy that suppresses the difference between the people and itself and, at…