Visual delicacies, symbolism and iconoclasm - the Sevillian artist has brought all this for her first solo exhibition in Barcelona.
A series of digital collages and a video piece that is more of a video collage, conjure masterpieces from the world of movies and art history, with scratches, pornographic details and winks at advertising and pop culture.
The esthetics resembles the baroque: red and black, passion and death, elegantly corrupted, Freudian and schizoid. The atmosphere that is created by the installation lets you submerge yourself in a sensory experience that recalls Hitchcock or the experimental Russian psycho flicks from the beginning of the 20th century.
Coming to the rescue of the value of the image, the iconology of Canes is an explosion in the subconscious of cultural references - a claim to the emotional perceptive states of viewing and a weave of intertextuality and semantic connotations. Seduction, obscenity and elegance for lovers of experimental art and for all those who still they enjoy the visual in a poetic tempo.
No longer distracted by the sticky, sweet-talking Queen of Pop, let's turn our attention back to the King, and pay homage one last time. Mindless and too late? Hey, the dude's without a brain and remains unburied, so that would almost be appropriate.
It was never going to please everybody - “too activist”, “too commercial”, “too frivolous”, it was mumbled - but, in our humble opinion, the inaugural Pride Barcelona did well, even without the crisis-stricken Matinée Group.
Lots of impressive creative talent, some in finding constructive feedback to, ehem, less impressive work, but mostly on show in the portfolio of young hopefuls.
The masterminds behind PHotoEspaña and the annual cult mag Matador, marked their 15th anniversary by opening a Barcelona branch, complete with gallery, bookshop, café and an event space.
As catalogues go, Daniel Riera’s work with Tamsin Egerton for Hoss Intropia was real fine. But his exhibition in Hoss’ private showroom shows why he’s one of our favourite photographers these days.
