Common sense. Art and Community
ART AND COMMUNITY Each and every action we take is determined by the bonds we form voluntarily with other people: they are directed at them, come from them and are reinforced by them. Life in a community, whatever form it might take, is an organic means of gaining strength, of learning from and with others […]
Recreation. Holidays at Home
BUTTERFLY OF THE AIR BY ISOL MISENTA AND ALEJO DE LOS REYES A visit that combines images, music and poetry. From her farm in San Miguel del Monte, Isol shares the secrets to the creation of her book Mariposa del aire (Butterfly of the Air) in which she illustrated poems by the great Spanish poet Federico Garcia […]
Along the way. Research Methods in Contemporary Art
THE JOURNEY OF IMAGES A conversation between the art historians Gabriela Siracusano and José Emilio Burucúa Two great art historians have a friendly conversation about their archives and research, offering us a glimpse of how they go about their work. Recorded especially for the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires during the quarantine, Gabriela […]
Health. The Poetics of Health
Paradigms for Better Living Ana Gallardo and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara in conversation A couple of hours apart, in Buenos Aires Province and Mexico City, Argentinian writer Gabriela Cabezón Cámara and artist Ana Gallardo talk about the ways that art can accompany processes of change and growth, and about Gallardo’s School of Aging project. The School […]
Serotonine
Mini-Concert with Leo Masliah From his home in lockdown in Montevideo, this unclassifiable Uruguayan writer, musician and composer presents a mini-show specially created for the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. Witty texts and songs that cross his relentlessly experimental and curious outlook with popular culture, classical and contemporary composition, exquisite performances and the […]
Silence
Three great friends talk about silence in music, quantum physics and literature, and about its role in art, meditation and the unsayable in the poetic process. They also discuss that silent hiatus, that rediscovering of suspended silence prompted in its recipients by the contemplation of art. https://youtu.be/gVxFKOB4P-8https://youtu.be/nxhSQW070Dg Even in the most absolute silence we still […]
The voice
Voice and I We are experiencing a re-emergence of the vocal power of humanity. The voice has grown stronger than it was before. It is not just a medium for language but a mark of identity with its different tones, timbres and registers. It brings an important facet of other people back into the present. […]
The living museum
Santiago Iturralde A veces un cerebro y ningún ojo, a veces un ojo y ningún cerebro [Sometimes a Brain and No Eye, Sometimes an Eye and No Brain], 2019 Óleo y lápiz sobre tela [Oil and pencil on canvas] 35 x 130 cm What is the mission of a modern and contemporary art museum faced with […]
The time of jellyfish
Art and Its Ways of Being and Fleeing the Present A jellyfish appears in the empty canals of Venice, throwing up new questions about the potentiality of art and time. The immemorial heir of the first animals on Earth and a denizen of the world for over six hundred million years, the Venice jellyfish is […]
Screens, affections and stages
The street is now lonely, anonymous territory. Screens have become the primary means of everyday communication. A stage that is both a boundary and a conduit to other faces multiplied in other windows; projections of our desire to connect with others. It is also an arena for expressive research into the many different facets of […]