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Conservadores de museo

Magazine

06 July 2009

Conservadores de museo

La feria Art Basel una semana después de la Bienal de venecia repite artistas y obras. Allí en tamaño bienal, aquí en tamaño doméstico: por ejemplo, de Tomás Saraceno ocupando todo el espacio de la entrada del pabellón internacional en Venecia, a una de las bolitas de su instalación a la venta en un stand. Si la Bienal de Venecia en los últimos años parece cada vez más perder su aspecto prospectivo y más parece una exposición de museo, como un envío de las capacidades curriculares del comisario de cara a dirigir cualquier museo de este mundo globalizado… Si Basel es, olvidado unlimited, una feria en la que comprar en pequeñito lo de esos museos… Si los centros de arte se piensan en términos de salas de exposiciones, salas de actos, almacenes, espacios interactivos… ¿No será que el llamativo “Yes We Can” se ha quedado en un slogan que tapa el profundo conservadurismo en el que vivimos? (Al fin y al cabo, lejos de marcharse de Afganistán, Obama acaba de enviar más tropas) Y, sí, el arte, reflejo de la realidad (otra fórmula conservadora), estaría ahí, como siempre, a la vanguardia.

En este número, Marcela Römer nos reporta lo que ha dado de sí la feria Art Basel, Javir Hontoria ha escrito sobre el Festival de PhotoEspaña en Madrid, Nizaia Cassián sobre el libro “Llamamiento y otros fogonazos” y Martí Manen sobre nacionalismos y arte.

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