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We are proud to post a review written by Carla Acevedo published in the first edition of ArtPulse Magazine on a video exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum last year: Reflections on the Electric Mirror; New Feminist Video. Hope you enjoy it!

Shifting women’s roles from muses to creators, feminist art of the 1970s sought to redefine the position that women had conventionally occupied in art history, through artistic practices that were more inclusive of sociopolitical and ideological concepts relevant to women.[...]

Iván Navarro, Blue Electric Chair, 2004. Fluorescent light, color sleeves, metal fixtures and electric energy

Iván Navarro uses fluorescent tubes and electrical materials to create sculptural works that offer social and political commentary within an art historical context. In his works, Navarro appropriates the formal qualities of Minimalism and other avant-garde movements, such as geometric abstraction and constructivism, to speak about violence, energy and the media.[...]

Andy Hope 1930, Time Tubes. Installation View.

So who is Andy Hope 1930? Andreas Hofer’s alter-ego is at it again with a series of paintings and sculptures that “channel the evidence of art as a ghostly manifestation in a paranormal time and space.” The exhibition is comprised of paintings and three-dimensional works that once again place the artist’s work outside any type of definition or categorization.[...]