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:: Carlos Barea - "Trojan Horse" - March 3 MNAV::

"Carlos Barea is an artist who works with ironic images, poetic, political, metaphorical, visceral. A singular degree of naivety articulates the ease of drawing and impeccable technique. An artist who has dabbled in various media that transformed it into one of the largest in the field concerning art in our country.
Owner of a very particular artistic impression able to develop over his career, including drawing, painting and installing an imaginary self an archivist. The iconography of his play is about people and situations, customs and urban, to popular myths and the mythology, magic, the alchemy.
Artigas, political prisoners, Trojan horses, Perseus, toys, carnival parades, the circus, were excuses to exercise his artistic strategy. His work marks a fundamental territory, where they cross over elements that are repeated time and reorder. (Fernando López Lage)
Carlos Barea, born in 1954 in Punta Carretas. Since 1977, presented in terms individually and collectively in Montevideo and abroad. Among those who thirst stake: Gallery of the Citadel in 1983, Goethe Institute in 1987, MAC 1990. He received numerous awards in national exhibitions (Car Club del Uruguay, Museo de Arte Americano de Maldonado, Banco Republica Oriental del Uruguay, among others). Participated in the 1986 Havana Biennial, and Valparaiso in 1983. His work is in collections and public sprivadas: Museo del Gaucho and the currency, central bank Pinacoteca, Museo de Arte Americano de Maldonado, Salto Museum, Museum of San Jose, Deutsche Bank Germany, Engelman Ost Collection.
Two videos, one says the curator, Fernando Lopez Lage, and the other the artist Carlos Barea us about your upcoming shows "Trojan horse", which opens March 3 19:00

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:: Banksy may be an Oscar! ::

missing four days. "Exit Through the Gift Shop" is a serious candidate to win the prize for best documentary, but nobody knows the face of his principal, the graffiti artist Banksy

This year, one of the favorites in the documentary category Exit Through the gift shop, which starts with Thierry Guetta, amateur recording everything that happens around him. The man decided one day to get behind the camera to make a film about street art and some of the most celebrated artists of the `street` art, Banksy, and colleagues such as Space Invader and Shepard Fairey.
But in the midst of recording things turned around, and the enigmatic Banksy who took the camera and started to film Guetta, who from then plunges into the world of street art taken by the alias of Mr. Brainwash.
What is already being called "Banksy film" has been presented at festivals in Sundance, Berlin, Deauville and San Sebastian, and compete for the Oscar against other major titles.

Gasland, Josh Fox, examines the allegedly unscrupulous company procedures Haliburton (which is well connected ex-President Dick Cheney) to dip into the lands of different owners over the United States where there is apparently a valuable reservoir of natural gas. Inside job by Charles Ferguson, is said to be A thorough analysis of the causes and responsibilities of the economic crisis that has rocked the United States and the world. Tim Hetherington Restrepo and Sebastian Junger, has chronicled a year in the life of a platoon of American soldiers in Afghanistan. Finally there is the co-production between Brazil and Britain Waste Land, Lucy Walker, Karen Harley and Joao Jardim, Sao Paulo on the artist Vik Muniz and recycling in the neighborhood of Jardim Gramacho, which receives 7,000 tonnes of waste daily in the Baixada Fluminense Rio de Janeiro. The film has been described as "an enriching experience about the power of art to beautify a conflicting reality."
True Exit star Through the gift shop is the mysterious Banksy. These days, Banksy is wandering through Los Angeles and, somehow, the film self-promotion through its street art.
Those who have seen his work have pointed out, simultaneously, their technical quality and provocative nature.

One of the most controversial of Banksy was drawn to the company Light Group, a chain of restaurants in Las Vegas, and shows the drunken Mickey Mouse, with a drink in hand and unshaven, on a billboard CBS's, threatening to tamper with the ad model as Minnie looks on. The last poster was obviously not agreeable to CBS and Disney Company, and apparently was quickly removed by his own CBS (owner of the billboard) without bothering to previously announced to advertisers. The broadcaster argued that the advertising did not meet their exacting standards.
One of the intrigues generated by the presence of "Banksy's film" among the five candidates for the Oscar documentary is whether the mysterious street artist decides to face if the Academy decides to finally give the statuette. Shall I go on stage to make themselves known to the world? Will you send someone in your place, as it did at the time Marlon Brando? Or the place will be empty, no one answered, as when, in the fifties, it was announced that the Oscar for best screenplay was for a Mr. Robert Rich, who had written a film called The Boy and the bull, and nobody came? (GUILLERMO Zapiola - ElPais Digital)

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:: New forms of art, net.art::

After a brief vacation, we returned with more force, to continue with this blog that we love so much power days to days.
We returned with a new section of " ANALYSIS "which will climb excellent articles journalists from newspapers, magazines, etc. That day I get my mail or find by there is time of and share all draw our conclusions, and propose our ideas or opinions.
ES DIEGO stars of for THE PAIS.COM
Although quite that is no longer Net.Art one trending topic "hot topic of discussion at the Red-, no doubt, had a moment in which raised some questions which remain valid and have influenced even works out of the loop current strict Net-Art. In fact, Net Art, raised specifically for the Web often as a means of exploring the ethical limits, technological or environmental policy referred not only to artistic creation, took as its starting point the enormous potential of communication between artist and viewer, suggesting a kind of open work staggered the essence of the author only as we understand our culture. Proposed work streams, nomadic identities, patched bodies were some of the issues addressed in the Network's work, putting on the table their own social practices and ways of control the individual, caught between web pages and data released to the bank, the State, the supplier of books ... It was also of works acquired their meaning in the home screen, a new form of socialization; projects after they disappeared or were transformed, while the "classic" ended to be identified. Still, it was sometimes contradictory Net.Art organize samples, dropping the proposal in the trap that was running: the logic of the system through the figure of a commissioner "selected" for the user the pages to be visited and who visited from computers in the showroom. Who knows if these proposals were not which weakened the movement, though still active, it is perhaps a shorter route than promised. In any case, it is clear that the network and its applications have completely changed the art world, starting with the virtual tours to major museums, following the easy to find almost any image on the Internet, and ending with an ethical issue that raised in 1990, when an emerging use of Photoshop and even the Internet delivery of images, now so common that anyone can do it from your mobile. Fred Ritchin then asked how far to be sure of the veracity of a photograph if a barely perceptible changes could be made without further significance and what would happen if each new shipment will be held another small transformation. Which was, in short, the "real" image, the true matrix. Perhaps that is the great challenge that the artistic, part of whose reputation is based on the originality in copying, is now proposing Internet applications. Trying to figure out whether that work is well or is modified is not easy ... but it is fascinating and even Borges. Like Pierre Menard's Don Quixote, by the very fact of being in the Red, the modified image acquires its status as reality, because what is more real than what happens online also observed live? This new way of approaching art it has become evident in recent events in the life of Weiwei, Chinese artist dissident local authorities who flew the house saying it was an illegal building. An onlooker near the devastating operation drew some pictures he rose to the Internet and, like fire, allowed to see what was happening in real time. But, and here lies the aporia, was that the house Weiwei, who was on the other hand, most of us know through his popular blog? Does it matter? The real reality, at least visually, should begin to ask questions different from traditional ones. The past no longer serves. It is no use. ( ES stars of DIEGO, EL PAIS 29.1.2011)