A nube de Martín

Ser un referente para varias generaciones y mantenerse en la cumbre del mundo de la música desde hace cuarenta años no es una tarea fácil. Y más si eres mujer y si nunca has tenido reparos en tomar las riendas de tu vida y de tu carrera (lidiando con las críticas, el machismo, la censura... y el paso del tiempo). Controvertida y admirada, polémica e incombustible, Madonna es una figura clave de la cultura popular. Estudiar sus múltiples facetas nos permite profundizar en la industria musical, el videoclip, la moda, la publicidad, el cine, la sexualidad y, por supuesto, la historia de...

Light, words, and the ephemeral -that shifting condition of random- are concepts present in some form in the entire oeuvre of Chema Alvargonzalez (1960-2009), an artist who divided the two decades of his career between Barcelona and Berlin. Whereas Bruce Nauman and Dan Flavin are Alvargonzalez's direct sources in the way he configures the space through experimentation with lighting, Mallarmé serves as the basis of his linguistic approach to the practice of art. Alvargonzalez often accords words the status of objects which -rather than locking in a meaning- enables him to achieve a semantic...

"Arreguín's palpitations of color and light and arrested movement awaken our sublimated vision. His paintings seem to force our entire being to experience its livingness as an insatiable yearning and questing of the eyes." - from the Foreword by Tess GallagherBorn in Mexico in 1935 and a resident of Washington State for nearly five decades, Alfredo Arreguín has long been recognized as a major force in pattern painting. His canvases are tapestries that mingle diverse and interpenetrating influences and images: the traditional crafts of his native Michoacán; the lush rainforests of his...

Testimonios de futuristas sobre Filippo Tommaso Marinetti a cien años de su nacimiento. Hablan en estas páginas los sobrevivientes de una estación agitada y convulsa de la cultura italiana.