Interview with Ruth Ander, The Sublime comes home.

    Here we have the interview with Ruth Ander, who kindly granted us some of her time in order to discover both her work and thoughts. A clever and fascinating artist that will no doubt surprise you all. Just thank her for taking part in AmalgamArtes.

From the Nothe, Ruth Ander, 2014

Surrealism and its DADa

“Concepts of Modern Art” is a great book edited by Nikos Stangos. Every chapter is brilliantly described by an expert of that subject such a Vorticism or Fauvism. There are many beautiful and helpful explanations of origin, evolution and death of each movement but today I want to point out that of Dada and Surrealism. These two paragraphs are revealing and shocking due to its resemblance with activities carried out in pre-Columbian cultures, for instance. But it basically explains what Dada and Surrealism were, their intentions and their ends. I recommend its wholly lecture but anyway, here, the extract I underline.

Fountain, Marcel Duchamp, 1917

Stardust. Interview with Clara Lorca

   If you go through Gran Via of Granada and you possess some curiosity, you will discover that at 33 something is being cooked underground. If you go into that doorway you will find the Punto Rojo Art Gallery. With this cold that threatens us the visit almost becomes mandatory and you will enjoy the works of some of the latest contemporary artists. You will behold the Granadian bustle from a rather than comfortable position. Today we talk with Clara Lorca, an artist who has exhibited at the gallery and has agreed to collaborate with Amalgamartes. Angela Hinojosa, thank you very much for making this interview possible:

Artistic Justice

 I am far from being a good art historian, I am even far from being a intelligent person. I am ignorant of many, many important things concerning art. But also, I am getting bored with reading wise people showing off their art skills, telling to everyone that they are connaisseurs of the whole art world. Last example has been a supposed discovery of a chinese artist, Chan Hwee Chong.  “Art with Capital Letters” “unsurpassable” “He had to be asian”. He is a completely unknown artist for me and I do not want to underrate either his background or his work but it’s time to shut some mouths (and keyboards) up. Everybody knows what is Faber-Castell. You and me have ever had a pen of this trademark. In order to show their pen’s quality, they made a deal with Chan Hwee Chong by which he had to use those pens for making a specific portraits. These specific portraits are:  Girl with a Pearl Earing  (Vermeer), Self-Portrait (Van Gogh) and Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci) through a tremendous technique. It all begins in a central dot, a unique spiralling line starts growing up building the picture. Certain diversions and pressure make shadows, shapes, and spatial depths through which the original portrait is re-designed. See below some pictures of it: