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As most of you may have noticed, to celebrate DaWire’s first year, this week we are revisiting articles that have made an impact in one way or the other. They are fan favorites, personal favorites or just plain great reads. Today we are featuring an article by Diana McClure on Murcia’s contemporary art scene, written after a trip made to the hosting region of Manifesta as a part of ARCO’s 2010 VIP Program.  Read the rest of this post »

Continuing our one year celebration, today we are revisiting an article by our contributing writer in Mexico City Alejandro Sordo-Guzmán on the work of Hector Falcón. The book, its uses and transmutation by the hand of the artist into an art object makes us reflect further about how the act of mutilation at times turns into an act of discovery. Read the rest of this post »

On July 26th 2009, I founded DaWire to provide a serious platform for emerging writers and artists. The idea started in San Juan, with one single essay, and with a lot of motivation to accomplish something different from what was already around. After arriving in Puerto Rico after 12 good years abroad, my good friend and artist Catherine Matos Olivo suggested I write an essay about her work for publication in the visual arts section of Small Axe edited by Christopher Cozier. I accepted and embarked on a series of writings on Puerto Rican emerging artists that included Josué Pellot and Jason Mena. Read the rest of this post »

You Were There, an exhibition curated by Thomas Duncan at Rachel Uffner Gallery, features work by Rita Ackermann, Justin Adian, Joe Bradley, Sarah Braman, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, and Josh Smith. The exhibition examines how time affects an artist’s practice, attitude and overall outlook. Read the rest of this post »

New York-based artists Steven Baldi and Lucas Knipscher have a show currently on view at Andrew Kreps Gallery until August 7th. The show is a continuation of a project initiated by Piper Marshall of the Swiss Institute at Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia.  The current manifestation of the exhibition considers the capacity for images to synchronously reveal and obstruct meaning by ways of construction and reconfiguration. The works in the show reflect the shifts of geography and time, and include sculpture, film, photography and painting. Read the rest of this post »

Dani Marti‘s work deals with the impossibility of portraiture and unveils the frenetic desire in each of us to capture through a photograph, an object or a video the essence of a person. In his work, Marti pairs different mediums such as painting with video, to construct a portrait of someone with whom he has had a personal, creative and/or sexual relationship. Marti transforms this very intimate encounter, however ephemeral it may have been, into an intricate pattern, a woven account of image, text and object that transcends the traditional notions of painting and portraiture. Read the rest of this post »

On the occasion of the centenary of Max Weiler’s birthday, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman dedicates an extensive exhibition to the doyen of Austrian landscape painting that will primarily consist of rarely seen masterpieces. The spectrum will reach from the representational earlyworks of the nineteen-forties via the milestones of painterly abstraction of the sixties and the lyrically reduced works of the seventies all the way to the brightly coloured,impulsive late works. Read the rest of this post »

Continuing our partnership with our west coast friends at DailyServing, today we feature an excellent article written by Michael Tomeo on the current show at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh that draws comparisons between Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp, pairing works and showing archival material of two of the most fascinating artists of the 20th century. Read the rest of this post »

Michel Majerus (1967-2002) used everything from art historical references, popular culture, video games, television and corporate logos to construct his paintings. He was born in Esch, Luxembourg but worked in Berlin until his untimely death in an airplane crash in 2002. Read the rest of this post »

Sebastián Vallejo’s paintings are inspired by the light and colors of the Caribbean, where organic and inorganic forms collide and transpose each other creating a visually engaging display of light and form. Read the rest of this post »