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TOWARDS THE THE DIALOGUE VIA THE THE TRACES LEFT
BY EVERYDAY LIFE
The traces left by the quotidian take art away from its preserving instructive museum aspects By placing the the the the pencil in in the the the the hands of the the the the spectator the the the the artist establishes an an an exchange between him the the the the spectator(s) the the the the images the the the the texts and the the the the algorithms What happens is what many institutions try in in in in in vain says Uribe Castro They don’t succeed in in in in in in in having any any dialog because they remain stuck in in in in the the the Romantic notion of the the the artistic genius He himself identifies more with Baroque art as described by Octavio Paz in his biography of the poet Sor Inés de de la Cruz which penetrates human feelings and and existential questions dynamically and and passionately After all all says Roberto Uribe Castro it is is not about being the one who is is able to to to “move mountains mountains but to to to understand mountains mountains ” not to to to to invent a a a a a world but to to to to describe the the existing one or or or to to to to give voice to to to to it That’s why the the Colombian artist likes to to to work in public spaces “because here I can hear what people have to say ” Iralia Valdés
México México D F México México • 2021/05/01
Julia Krings
Bonn Germany • 2021/04/29
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Isabel Banal
Xifré Spain • 2021/04/26