A Saint John’s Bonfire on the Grand Canal
A curator’s visit to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice: Magritte, Chillida and Marini, lived rather than analysed.
Thanks for breaking my mind
I value exhibitions that interrupt habit and compel a deeper form of attention. The most meaningful encounters with art are those that ask the viewer to suspend noise, certainty and ready-made judgement, and to adjust perception in order to meet the work on its own frequency. In that moment, art becomes more than an object […]
How to Analyze a Contemporary Artwork Without Being Fooled
An artwork begins to become true when it can lose its external defenses and still keep standing in front of the viewer. To analyze a contemporary artwork is not simply to say whether you like it. Taste may be honest as a first reaction, but judgment begins later, when one dares to ask what remains […]
Everything Ends in the Sea
Manu Iranzo · MARTE Castellón Surrounded by hundreds of works demanding attention, Manu Iranzo’s drawings appeared almost in silence. A lot of white. A contained image. A quiet presence that did not fully reveal itself from a distance. You had to come closer. And as you came closer, the lines began to appear. Thousands of extremely fine lines, clean […]
The Scorpion Sting Hidden in Flowers
Sonsoles Massiá · Brutal Beauty Some works captivate from the very first moment, and that is precisely why one should distrust them for a second. Beauty can be an easy trap. It can remain on the surface, in ornament, in the pleasant condition of an object made to be admired. But sometimes beauty is not […]
Where Do You Come From? What Do You Want? Where Are You Going?
Notes Towards an Honest Curatorial Practice within Spain Passion Most contemporary discourse around art revolves around context, market structures, ideology, aesthetics, or institutional validation. All of these can provide meaningful layers of interpretation, yet they often orbit around something more essential. Before becoming an object of theory or commerce, a work of art is first […]
Heaven on Earth: ten artists, ten wines
Ten contemporary artists from the Valencian region, paired with ten of its finest wines. Casino de Agricultura, Valencia, May 2025.
Gradium, 2009: an evening for creativity
In 2009 we created the Gradium awards for creativity in communication and design, and showed our work at the MuVIM in Valencia.