Francisco Herrero Peñuela uses old forms to make his elaborate, richly textured surfaces. Practicing a form of marquetry common in 15th century Italy—intarsia—Peñuela pieces together fragments of wood to create abstract images in warm tones of gold, brown, and black. While original Italian intarsia would have been representational, embedding landscapes, objects, and narrative scenes directly into walls, Peñuela’s compositions hedge away from direct representation, with shapes and pattern emerging organically out of his carefully arranged wooden pieces. Peñuela’s Cubistic compositions might be read as abstracted aerial maps—their geometric and organic shapes suggesting plots of land, or perhaps some ruin, not quite unearthed.
Peñuela’s career as an artist has been an unusual one—he is a bit of an outsider, working and creating outside of the usual parameters of the art world and its market. In fact, it is Peñuela’s son, Federico Herrera, who first drew attention as an artist. Perhaps unsurprisingly, however, Francisco and Federico share something in their sensibilities. Like his father, Federico works with segmented abstractions, placing swaths and spans of bold colors together to create map-like images and pop-colored landscapes. Both artists point, however, to tradition and heritage in their works that seem to plumb the landscapes of their shared identity.
Easy to fold and carry, Jorge González’s Banquetas Chéveres (Chéveres Stools) embody the nomadic and flexible nature of the Escuela de Oficios...
Cities are the heroes in an 'easy-going and unpreachy' publication that takes us on whirlwind tour of art history Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Books review Cities are the heroes in an 'easy-going and unpreachy' publication that takes us on whirlwind tour of art history Fifteen art capitals are captured at their brilliant apogee in Caroline Campbell's book Keith Miller 6 February 2024 Share Detail of Hungry Ghosts Scroll (late 12th century) by an unknown artist Kyoto National Museum The last book I reviewed with this title was by the historian Simon Schama...
James Ensor: series of anniversary shows to reveal ‘the man behind the mask’ Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Exhibitions news James Ensor: series of anniversary shows to reveal ‘the man behind the mask’ Belgium commemorates 75 years since the artist's death with a year-long season of exhibitions and events, often highlighting the lesser known aspects of his work Eddi Fiegel 15 December 2023 Share James Ensor, Pierrot and skeleton in a yellow robe (1893) Photo: Hugo Maertens The Belgian artist James Ensor may be easily recognisable for the macabre faces that so often feature in his works, but a major new season of exhibitions and events in his home country aims to reveal “the man behind the mask”...
Light Jacket Reading Series Brings Poetry to Golden Gate Park | KQED Skip to Nav Skip to Main Skip to Footer The Do List This Unpretentious Poetry Series Roams the Pockets of Golden Gate Park Sarah Hotchkiss Dec 12 Save Article Save Article Failed to save article Please try again Facebook Share-FB Twitter Share-Twitter Email Share-Email Copy Link Copy Link Sophia Dahlin reads a poem during the eighth event of the Light Jacket Reading Series in Golden Gate Park on Saturday, Dec...
Art history meets Lego in two of Ai Weiwei’s latest works Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 news Art history meets Lego in two of Ai Weiwei’s latest works Chinese artist recreates two famous historic paintings using the hundreds of thousands of Lego bricks Alexander Morrison 7 December 2023 Share Ai Weiwei’s version of Giorgione’s Sleeping Venus is at Galleria Continua Photo: © Liliana Mora Visitors to Art Basel in Miami Beach making their way past Galleria Continua’s stand this week may find themselves doing a double take, as they encounter what looks like the Renaissance painter Giorgione’s Sleeping Venus (1510) made supersize...
The real digital nomads: how, on the Mongolian steppe, mobile internet is helping save nomadic traditions | South China Morning Post The real digital nomads: how, on the Mongolian steppe, mobile internet is helping save nomadic traditions Books and literature On the Mongolian steppe, nomads are embracing digitalisation to stay connected and do business without sacrificing the best of their traditional way of life Johan Nylander + FOLLOW Published: 7:15am, 9 Dec, 2023 Why you can trust SCMP Out in the wilds of the Mongolian steppe, nomadic herders are embracing the information age...
Gregory Halpern spent five years shooting ZZYZX , and another year editing the results, from an estimated thousand rolls of film, about half of which were shot in the final year after his Guggenheim Fellowship enabled him to live in California...
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The Chair (2012) foregrounds media-based tensions between analog and digital imaging technologies as a means of challenging the continued circulation of visual ephemera from India’s colonial past...
And words were whispered by Sancintya Mohini Simpson is a series of ten works on paper based on the lived experiences of Indian women taken to the Natal region of South Africa from the 1860s to the early 1900s to work in tea and sugarcane plantations during apartheid, which included servitude in its broadest and most sinister definition...
Silver & Gold combines video, performance, and original costumes into a self-proclaimed “filmformance” that evokes the legendary filmmaker Jack Smith and his tribute to 1940s Dominican movie starlet Maria Montez in a magical and joyfully twisted exploration of race, glamour, sexuality, and the silver screen...