How to hang artistically by the head: Gormley, Cattelan

Anthony Gormley, Learning to think (1991)

Maurizio Cattelan, Untitled (2007)

Artists from Brazil

You want a country really hype? Go to Brazil! That is the place to be, at least till World Cup 2014.

The awesome Colombian magazine Exclama published the its newest issue on Brazil. I was invited to interview four contemporary artists: Henrique Oliveira is doing breathtaking reliefs with wood pieces attached to walls. Rejane Cantoni & Leonardo Crescenti are experimenting with science. Ana Luiza Dias has a metaphyisical approach to movement and repose. And Marcelo Cidade is criticizing politics with his installations.

Henrique Oliveira, Tapume (2010)

Leonardo goes Mexican

The Last Fiesta is the remake of Leonardo's Last Supper by Chris Parks with cheve, tequila, taquitos, margaritas, flautas and, last but not least, máscaras de luchadores. The twelve Apostles and Jesus are getting down one last time, and everything is painted not on canvas but on skateboard decks.

The richest art collection of the world

The German magazine WELTKUNST just published a piece of mine about the richest art collection of the world: Carlos Slim's.

The building is an amazing work by Fernando Romero (but strange without windows, which reminds me of Jose Saramago's critic to shopping malls). Do not hesitate to check out this awesome picture gallery, from where I am taking these images.

Death at the Wall: Berlin, Mx-USA

Hilde Kroll, Berlin memorial

136 persons were killed while trying to escape East Berlin (1963-1989)

Alinka Echeverría, Tijuana memorial

1,954 persons died while trying to get to the United States (1998-2004)

Exhausted: Vivian Maier, Enrique G de la G

Two exhausted couples: Vivian Maier shot that image in Chicago (1950s), I did the other one in the Munich's Deutsches Museum (2006).

Women: John Singer Sargent, René Burri

 John Singer Sargent, Street in Venice (1882)

 

René Burri, Three men in suit watching two women pass by (1960)

John Gutmann meets Humphrey Bogart

John Gutmann,  Lost what (1938)

There is this moment in Sabrina (1954), by Billy Wilder, when Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart are sailing. As she plays a vinyl, he asks her to stop the music because of sad memories:

AH: Did you love her? 

HB: I'd rather not talk about it.

AH: I'm sorry.

HB: That's all right.

AH: It's so strange to think of you being touched by a woman. I always thought you walked alone.

HB: No man walks alone from choice.

Mourn

 

Anonymous, Australian aboriginal art 

Barnett Newman, Untitled - The void (1946)

Callum Innes, Monologue black (2007)

Anatoly Shuravlet, Black holes (2009)

Camillo Vanacore, Frene (2009)

Cy Twomby, Untitled

Jackson Pollock, Untitled (1950)

                                         

Johannes Wohnseifer, ???

 Gerhard Richter, Grat 2 (1989)

 

 

Caspar David Friedrich, Friedhof im Schnee (1826)

 

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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in black and gold: The falling rocket (1875)

 Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona chair (1929)

Maarten Bass, Smoke (2007)

Kazimir Malevich, Black square (1913)

Matthias Lahme, Untitled (2006)                                             Martin Creed, Work 508 (2006)

 Mathias Goeritz, ???

 Pablo Picasso, Guernica (1937)

 Ralph Hotere, Black paintings (1968)

Robert Rauschenberg, Untitled - Glossy painting (1951)

 Ad Reinhardt, Composition in black (1972) 

 Robert Motherwell, Iberia 18 (1958)

Rembrandt, Philosopher in Meditation (1632)

Rick Arendt, Moon (2009)

Edvard Munch, The scream (1895)                    Mark Rothko, Black form (1950s)

Frank Stella, The marriage of reason and squalor II (1967)

Sir Leif, Piano (2010)

Pierre Soulages, Untitled, 1994 (1994)

Vincent van Gogh, Pair of boots (1887)

Anonymous, Water

Diego Velázquez, Cristo crucificado (1632)