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Narrar el mundo y la imaginación / Narrate the world and the imagination
Etiqueta: mural art
2015/05/15
KEITH HARING
ONCE UPON A TIME
«A joyous mural born in an era filled with fear» (D. W. Dunlap), Once upon a time is located at the second-floor men’s room of the Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center, 208 W 13th Street, New York
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These art-murals that Keith Haring painted in 1989 take me invariably to my early childhood. It’s not that sex then was like that -certainly not as genital as Haring depicted it here, black on white- but there was a large quantity of it that still comes to my body whenever I look at these paintings by Haring in the shape of old, slow, soft waves of warmth. Leer el resto de esta entrada »
2014/11/09
Funny games in the «new-old» Russia
Moscow, 1995-2003
When I first arrived in Moscow in April 1995, there were few advertisements in the streets. The citizens of the “new-old» Russia hadn’t experienced the impact of this peculiar side effect of capitalism -publicity- for almost a century but they were certainly used to propaganda, a former distant relative.
«This is not a telecom company, this is love»
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