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« Personne » au Grand Palais. Christian Boltanski.

2010-03-14T00:10:00.001+01:00

Cette année, c’est à l’artiste français Christian Boltanski faire l’exposition Monumenta 2010 au Grand Palais. Son œuvre, une grande installation « Personne », titre sûrement choisi pour l’ambiguïté du terme. L’installation ne compte pas avec l’image d’aucun être humain, mais elle nous laisse voir des restes ou des preuves de la présence de l’homme dans le centre de son

PARIS PHOTO

2009-11-22T22:36:00.000+01:00

One of the advantages of living in Paris is, all the events you can assist; gallery openings, exhibitions, conferences, art fairs, festivals, avant premiers all kind of cultural events. This weekend was Paris Photo turns. I don’t know if I’m getting cynical but Paris Photo and the FIAC have been a disappointment for me, I can’t find anything really interesting. During my

UNESCO. Second Global Forum on the power of peace. Bangkok.

2009-11-04T14:04:00.000+01:00

Recently I was invited to assist the Second Global Forum on the Power of Peace organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Bangkok. It was the first time I attended to an event organized by them.I was quite pleased to meet extraordinary people who are really engaged in making a better world, kind of utopian even though I felt filled with hope, a

LOVE (is in the air, everywhere I look around)

2009-02-08T21:25:00.000+01:00

Just about time to write about Love…with the up coming Saint Valentine’s day. We’re being bombarded by publicity, stores dressed in red, teddy bears, huge heart-shaped boxes of chocolates, my mail is already full of publicity from Apple inviting me to buy a personalized ipod for my loved one and the airlines helping me to plan my passionate weekend, spas for two, a movie contest of romantic home

Bitter Orange (Al Bortouqala al morra)

2009-02-04T15:21:00.000+01:00

Al Bortouqala al morra (L'Orange Amère) is a Moroccan movie for the television, as the ones HBO and Hallmark produce, when I can have access to this kind of media content I never hesitate on watching it, it is always a great experience to know the contents produced out of western societies; surprisingly in Morocco the Telenovelas (Mexican soapoperas) are greatly known, but there isn’t a fair

Meeting the French Youth

2009-02-03T19:40:00.000+01:00

Yesterday while showing Lyon to some friends we met a young guy when watching some break-dancer practice in the Opera building, he offered to show us the spot where the techtonik dancers practice, since my friends have never seen this kind of urban dance and I couldn’t miss this sociological chance we were happy to follow him. It was a lifetime ethnographic opportunity because it is difficult as

... CARTOON... CARTOONS...

2009-01-29T16:57:00.001+01:00

Recently, I went back home for the holidays and I realize I was getting older when every cartoon, my youngest cousin watches, just seemed unintelligible for me, they were boring and uninteresting; exactly the reaction my mother used to have towards the cartoons I used to, and still love.There was one about a school for animals where a kid was enrolled by mistake, because his name was Lion (that

Rudo y Cursi (Something like “Rough and Cheesy”)

2009-01-26T17:18:00.000+01:00

I don’t know which is the name the Anglo - Saxons are going to give to this movie, the first CHA CHA CHA production, film Producer Company created by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón. The movie directed by Carlos Cuarón and the cast Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna.When I knew this film was being produced first of all I thought, what a great marketing plan, and

GAZA

2009-01-19T18:23:00.000+01:00

After more than a month in silence I am back, the family and holidays took my attention from anything else. And even if I would like to write about something else, and it seems to be out of time now that the Israeli troops are withdrawing, I feel obliged to write about the situation in Gaza.There have been said a lot of things about this subject, everyone has an opinion about it and takes a side.

Edge of Arabia: Arabic women in the contemporary art scene

2008-12-02T14:22:00.000+01:00

As we know, nowadays Russians and Chinese are ruling contemporary art scene, Europeans and Americans will be always there and Latin Americans make feel their presence even if the most memorable works are from the 1950’s or back in the 1990’s; but what about the Arabic world, the art known in the western world only comes to Arabic design in the mosques and calligraphy without forgetting some rare

Female masturbation

2008-11-28T13:15:00.000+01:00

Chatting with a female friend older than 25, virgin for private and religious matters I found out she didn’t know anything about female masturbation, she thought that women in order to masturbate need a dildo. This girl is a highly educated person anyway her knowledge on the topic is virtually nil. She is a Muslim so I asked what does the Islam say about masturbation and she also ignored it, she

Be Afraid Of China!!!

2008-11-26T21:24:00.000+01:00

Western world tremble! Be afraid of China! China is not only a huge country, with a great working population, increasing economic power and the biggest diaspora all over the world but it is also becoming a nest for the most gifted contemporary artists. The exhibition “The Revolution Continues: New Chinese Art.” Is being held at Saatchi Gallery in London. More than 50 pieces of 28 Chinese Artist

Some Hope?

2008-11-20T21:49:00.001+01:00

After my opinion about Italy, someone has given me some hope, some active Italians have create a site called “Not Speaking in my name” almost 1000 pictures of people with a sing “I’m Italian and Berlusconi is not speaking in my name” is the content of this site; we can also read:This website does not have political party affiliations. It is a spontaneous gathering of Italians that feel

Televisa fighting the economic crisis with spots

2008-11-11T02:09:00.000+01:00

Today on You Tube I found a very interesting video, that full fills me with uncertainty, not only because I can’t find out the clear and deep purpose of it but because I can’t either find out how they arrived to produce this poor content. Televisa, the biggest television company in Mexico, after the crisis has produced one minute spot, address to all the Mexicans, in which it invites them to bear

Giovane, bello e bronzato

2008-11-07T18:36:00.000+01:00

Isn’t it incredible the people who rule the countries in this World? I lived for a while in Italy. I Arrived with the Dolce Vita spirit …handsome guys, good food, easy going people, beautiful landscape, amazing cities, family values, etcBut I found myself in a country that is living in the past, in the renaissance, middle age, Roman Empire or Etruscan civilization depending on the touristy

I Have a Dream.....

2008-11-06T01:21:00.000+01:00

Yes We Can... Yes We Could...Hoy 5 de noviembre hemos despertado con la noticia que los EE UU tienen su primer presidente negro/mulato (como gusten llamarlo), a sólo 40 años del asesinato de Martin Luther King. Podríamos pensar que los EEUU avanzan a pasos agigantados no únicamente en cuestión económica (a pesar de la reciente crisis) pero también social. Hoy al haberse reconocido el triunfo de

Caipiroska llegó.

2008-11-06T01:18:00.000+01:00

Durante años, me negué a tener más que un e-mail, aunque prácticamente desde los 7 años he tenido una computadora en mis manos, y soy parte de la generación Y !(and why is it Y?, sólo porque va después de la X? que poca imaginación) nací a principios de los ochenta.Con el tiempo tuve 2, 3, 4 cuentas de mail, msn, skype, hi5, tagged, facebook..... Y ahora me uno al mundo de los bloggers ;) Más