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El síndrome Fernando Castro

Magazine

20 April 2014

El síndrome Fernando Castro

Hace pocos días Ana Llurba reseñaba el último libro de Fernando Castro Flores, Mierda y catástrofe. Síndromes culturales en el arte contemporáneo (Editorial Fórcola, 2014). En él, el crítico de arte diagnostica, con su particular forma de ver las cosas, el estado actual de la institución arte, la teoría y la crítica.

También, no hace tanto, Sonia Fernández Pan reclamaba la necesidad de juicio y posicionamiento en la generación de una crítica trascendente y relevante.

Os dejamos un video de 2008 que registra una breve pero directa entrevista a Castro Flórez. En ella se identifican algunas pinceladas de cómo entiende el autor cuestiones como el lugar y la forma de la crítica actual, el posicionamiento del pensamiento contemporáneo, la función de las instituciones culturales o el propio arte como espacios de debate.

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