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March 2021
Fotografie 1949-1962
For Robert Rauschenberg, considered one of the fathers of Pop Art, photographs were a fundamental element of his work, co-stars with newspaper clippings and the "objets trouvés" of his "combine paitings". But photography was also a passion that the artist has practiced throughout his life, immortalizing the surrounding world and the companions of his adventure: family, studio, travels to Europe, artist friends including Cy Twombly, Jasper Johns , Willem de Kooning and John Cage, the human body and everyday
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May 2019
DUELOS Y QUEBRANTOS
"From 2013 to 2017, I covered the 2,500 km that comprise the Don Quixote route and other places in the Castilla La Mancha region. I covered the five provinces of the region: Albacete, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara and Toledo. In an attempt to create a timeless parallelism between that society described by Cervantes and the contemporary society and thus able to see and assimilate these places, I tried to empathize with Don Quixote. The result is an interpret
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December 2020
A Moving Border: Alpine Cartographies of Climate Change
Italy’s northern border follows the watershed that separates the drainage basins of Northern and Southern Europe. Running mostly at high altitudes, it crosses snowfields and perennial glaciers—all of which are now melting as a result of anthropogenic climate change. As the watershed shifts so does the border, contradicting its representations on official maps. Italy, Austria, and Switzerland have consequently introduced the novel legal concept of a “moving border,” one that acknowledges the vol
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