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The Vulnerable Body, an exhibition by Victoria Diehl

Mónica Boixeda Madrilenian, Only-Be

Victoria Diehl is a young photographer born in La Coruña, Spain, in 1978 and, despite her short career she has been awarded and has exhibited her works many times. Her ability to present photographic works full of romance and sensuality combining the contemporary and classic style is truly amazing and in her work life and death are intertwined all the time. This time anyone who wants to enjoy her work can attend the Cero Gallery, located in Madrid, which will host the exhibition “The Vulnerable Body” that will be displayed from December 1 until February 3, 2011. This exhibition is a beautiful and disturbing sample by the photographer where images are in process of metamorphosis where, for example, a stone will turn into human flesh and also, conversely, where a human body will end up petrified. In “The Vulnerable Body” Diehl shows again the importance of the intermediate spaces that so much attract her attention and which have always been part of her exhibitions and screenshots. This way, she will take the viewer into an imaginary and nonexistent universe where nothing can be considered impossible and unreal and where the only thing that matters is the perspective of the artist. More info at: http://www.galeriacero.com/site/ Cero Gallery: Calle Fuenterrabía 13, 28014, Retiro, Madrid MiLK Lovers of photography have an appointment in “The Vulnerable Body” to be presented at the Cero Gallery until February 3, 2011. If you want to know more about the works of Victoria Diehl you can rent apartments in Madrid and enjoy one of today’s most important young photographers in Spanish.? Translated by: salome... read more

The Otolith Group: Perception and Memory

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

From February 4, 2011 on, the MACBA will exhibit the work of the Otolith Group, founded in London in 2000 by Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun, which reflects on the perception of memory and subjectivity that the passage of time keeps in the human record. The exhibition is conceived as a mixture of production that takes the viewer to understand a work methodology, where files and activities made with them, in different media supports, build a unit of significant events. Thus, the Cold War and the processes of global capitalism appear as fragments of a diary that are anchors in the subjectivity of individual memory and its critical potentiality of reconstruction and deconstruction of the narrative in progress. The use of the documentary is presented as a collage that tells the forms of post-colonial condition, making a reflex that goes beyond the pictures, making art in a political speech that confronts the memory as a tool for building ideas for a future world. For those who today argue about the aesthetics of memory and its urgent relation between past and present, as a barrier preventing the history from becomes the static figure of a closed time, finally sealed by the weight of the dominant culture, this exhibition reflects the radical claim to a society mired in this petrified present, where the formal, lightweight, empty of content aesthetic has eliminated the human condition to remember, to look back. This is where Anjalika Sagar, whose studies Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London University and Fine Arts at the University of Middlesex and its status as... read more

Peter Murphy, what’s new?!

Mónica Boixeda Istanbulite, Only-Be

One of the sexiest and beautiful male voices that I had the opportunity to hear in my life, and probably in the lives of many, the great Peter Murphy, former lead singer of Bauhaus, the legendary band of the afterpunk English movement, is about to release a new album, and according to what we hear on the radio and myspace, it is a real musical gem…. It´s about time Peter! The new album from the elegant Mr. Peter Murphy, is entitled Ninth. One can appreciate by the themes we have been able to hear so far a mature work, with much Eastern influence, which is not new to his music, as he has previously worked with Mercan Dede, the Turkish artist who created the album titled “Dust” 2002, clearly inspired by the instrumentation and the deep feeling of Turkish music -remember that Peter has lived for many years in Istanbul. While Dust is an excellent album, very intimate and with very good reviews, it was away from Peter’s rock we were used to hearing: It wasn’t until 2004, when he launched the album “Unshattered” when he newly connects with his rock-pop vein. However, this new album is the successor to “Unshattered” and he has had 6 years to create the 19 songs that will be part of the new LP. The album, which does not have official release date yet, will be accompanied by a tour entitled “The Dirty Dirt Tour” which is underway and will expand through several countries of the old continent and the world. Concerning his new work, Peter has said on their official website and... read more