Horror vacui: una colección de pintura barroca

Entre ausencias y presencias ausentes analiza las representaciones sociales a través de las cuales se (in)visibiliza la dimensión histórica de lo negro, en las explicaciones acerca del periodo colonial que proponen los textos escolares de ciencias sociales publicados en Colombia desde 1991 hasta la actualidad. El estudio de dichos dispositivos pedagógicos se apoya en tres núcleos de discusión: la ausencia de África y la diáspora africana como referentes históricos; las concepciones esencialistas acerca de la esclavitud, y las nociones restringidas de mestizaje. Estos núcleos...

The palindromic title of Brazilian artist Carla Zaccagnini's no, it is opposition. hints at its conceptual structure, which she describes as forking paths and crossroads. The book documents an exhibition which the viewer enters twice, encountering the same work again, but differently. The exhibition catalogue reflects the palindromic nature of the exhibition, mirroring itself and the exhibition in both structure and form.

Argentine painter Guillermo Kuitca, born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, is widely considered one of the most important contemporary artists in South America. Architecture, theater, music and cartography play a central role in his work, where maps and blueprints are condensed into a world of poetic and territorial fantasies, and reality and fiction overlap. Whether depicting an "Acoustic Mass" at the Old Vic or a constellation map of "Heaven," in each painting or drawing collected here, Kuitca measures the world anew, shedding light on complex spatial contexts and intertwined social processes. This...

Elliot is needed to help restore the balance of the natural world, so he goes on a dangerous mission to find the four elemental stones and defeat the evil Tánatos.