Grandeur: the Hortensia Herrero Art Centre
The Palacio de Valeriola reborn on the Calle de la Mar: a patron’s collection that sums up contemporary art and gives Valencia back its shine.
Journal
Essays, artist focus and curatorial reflections.
To review a work of art you have to be present
Anselm Kiefer’s The Land of the Two Rivers at the Guggenheim Bilbao: Gilgamesh, Scheherazade and art as the salvation of what is human.
Vancouver: sculpture you can wear
At the Vancouver Art Gallery, Material Futures showed fashion built like sculpture, and a museum that attracts, inspires and rents art from its ground floor.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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