New Compositional Thinking 1
Nuevo Pensamiento Compositivo Vol.1
by Muu Blanco - Gerardo Zavarze
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About the Book
Now, in the Venezuelan case, it is no longer about a Land of Grace, as Cristopher Columbus would put it in the chronicles of his trips to the New World. The modern utopias anchored in the ideals of a cornucopian nature have been transformed, with the sudden and intensive exploitation of the underground mineral resources, into real individual and collective tragedies. The recent history of Venezuela bears witness to this: a nation that, in spite of holding the biggest oil reserves in the world, has not been able to warrant economic growth and social equity to it’s citizens.
From this perspective, Muu Blanco proposes to invert the Venezuelan oil imaginary through the series New Compositional Thinking (2014). In this work, Blanco carries out an intervention on a set of images referring to the Venezuelan oil epic, first published in the photography magazine Extra Cámara, by inserting a scapular bearing the effigy of Chapulín Colorado. No doubt, the intention of such an insertion is that the spectator recalls the famous TV character’s phrase: And now, who will defend us? At the same time, it is evident that with this work Muu Blanco denounces the cult of oil in the same way that the historian Germán Carrera Damas exposed some years back the cult of Bolivar, so deeply entrenched in Venezuelan culture.
Foto libro de Muu Blanco
Texto: Gerardo Zavarce
Diseño Grafico: Muu Blanco
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Fine Art Photography
- Additional Categories Education
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Project Option: Small Square, 7×7 in, 18×18 cm
# of Pages: 20 -
Isbn
- Hardcover, ImageWrap: 9781320500975
- Publish Date: Aug 01, 2015
- Language English
- Keywords Blanco, Muu
About the Creator
El arte es una necesidad, el arte es libertad, el arte es lo que tú quieres que sea (Abdel Hernández, Salon Pirelli, 1995) Muu Blanco. Cronología de la irreverencia Contemporaneidad, una palabra tan amplia como el tiempo en el que habita. Converso con Muu Blanco (José Antonio Blanco Angulo, Caracas 1966) artista multidisciplinario venezolano con más de tres décadas en el campo del arte, en las que su abordaje de la contemporaneidad —marcado por la irreverencia y la polémica—, ha sido tan vasto como exitoso. Su obra se nutre de experiencias de vida y de un respaldo literario y artístico importante; es biznieto de Udon Pérez y nieto de Antonio Angulo Luzardo, dos marabinos ilustres a quienes recuerda como ...los culpables de que yo esté en el arte...