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Interview With Albeniz Rodriguez | Dominican Republic
Your biography in 3 lines
Born in Santo Domingo on 30/06/1971. I attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Santo Domingo and then I continued studying visual art at 'UNPHU University of Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep.). Currently I live and work in Italy.
What was your first satirical cartoon?
-My First caricature I made to my father at the age of thirteen.
When did you start your professional working?
-I Started as an illustrator of school books for the Ministry of Education of my country in 1992.
What was your first prize?
- A caricature of the President of the Dominican Rep., Which was published in a local weekly.
What was your last prize?
-In 1990, he is taking part in a competition of Fine Arts exposing a figurative work.
How do you find new ideas?
-on current events, attentive to international news.
Whats your idea about Inevitable Similarities?
- Difficult to maintain their own style without being in
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On Kawara's date paintings explained
The Japanese conceptual artist died last week but his date paintings allow him to transcend history
It’s hard to write an obituary for On Kawara, the seminal Japanese conceptual artist who passed away last week. Kawara resisted formal biography, foregoing interview requests – even when it came to our monograph. Instead the artist offered a deeper and simpler meditation on the individual’s place within our era. Most famously he painted his Today series - simple acrylic on canvas renderings of that day’s date – from the 4 January 1966 up until the final years of his life.
The Today series also complicated an obituary, as we draw up our own dates – Jan. 2, 1933 – Jul. 10, 2014 – following his death last week. Yet, as the writer and curator René Denizot explains in our monograph, the date paintings could help the artist transcend his earthly limits. Denizot writes:
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Stefan Brüggemann
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The philosophy of language is a crucial tenet in Brüggemann’s practice, in which ord functions as a fluid medium, utilized for both form and meaning; his choice of words typically provocative, acerbic and topical. Brüggemann’s masterful wordplay and conceptual rigour coalesce to create a bold and pertinent body of work focusing on themes o