Artists
By Sybaris Collection
The renewal in the arts has begun. If the Pritzker Prize had looked with sympathy to those architects who care about ecology (Shigeru Ban, 2014) or social architecture (Alejandro Aravena, 2016), this year the award went to a couple who understood that aesthetics did not a priority when constructing a building.
A group of crypto artists bougth and original print by Banksy in order to burned it and the digitized it as a NFT. But what the hell is that?
Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings.
Wassily Kandisky
What if you could hear color? What if you could hear a painting? A new project by Google Arts & Culture in collaboration with Centre Pompidou in Paris lets you explore the oustanding mind of Wassily Kandinsky (Moscow, 1886 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1944) and hear the colors just as he would hear them.
The power of art is undeniable. Some people is still thinking art is useless or even worst: that it is just about beauty. However, messages in art are as powerful and political as any speech given by politicians or activists. Last year, artist Nick Cave (Fulton, 1959) created a big installation which was subjected to censorship.
By Camila Durán
A couple of years ago the controversial artist Charlotte Jarvis unveiled In Posse, an art project that aims to create female sperm. The first questions around this project revolve around the essence of the disciplines: to what extent can we talk about contemporary art? Is it a scientific project? How does gender studies intervene?
By Sybaris
Last week, Abel Cervantes wrote on this pages about the decline of public monuments and questioned if the design of public spaces in Mexico were actually social spaces. A couple of days ago (on January 21st), the Design Museum in London awarded Teeter-Totter Wall (2019) with the Design of the Year, one of the most prestigious design awards around the world. However, although this project has good intentions, is it really the best option one could imagine to protest against a wall that has been specifically designed to separate the people?
