“The multiple vision of Madrid offered by José Miguel Palacio is, no doubt, an attempt to build a poetics of the city in which he moves away from defeatism or a mere apology. Since 2003 he begins to fix scenes, sensations and characters from Madrid, with no...
“It must be said that today we must understand the sublime differently; we must strip this notion of its neoclassical pomposity, its Alpine swelling, its theatrical exaggeration; today, the sublime is first and foremost an experience of the mystery of the world,...
“Precisely when the symbolic exchange has become practically impossible, the critical looks attend to the artistic as if from this ritual could come out the key to escape from this glaciation” “We have to learn to think space. The space of the...
“Is the new metropolitan condition to continue to reproduce the values of consumption as the sole pragmatic purpose of social intermingling and the visual order of the simulacrum as the model of its special formalization?”
“What is close to us provokes vertigo because the explanations offered do not explain it. How often do we meet today – on trains, in parking lots, in queues in shopping malls – with a similar gaze, with a gaze that refuses to focus on what is...
