Mar
7
2010
George Quasha‘s video installation ‘art is (Speaking Portraits)’ belongs to the series of video projects (‘art is’, ‘music is’, ‘poetry is’, ‘myth is’, and ongoing project ‘freedom is’). Quasha asks artists one simple question: what art is? The project includes more then 700 international artists, poets and composers…
George Quasha is a contemporary artist and poet in constant search for interlaced forms of expressiveness…
Photos by Claudinka taken from flickr (c)
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Mar
18
2009
L(..)king at Others exhibition also gave me the opportunity to check artwork by Pedro Lasch. Those who are fairly interested in contemporary art that deals with unethically exploiting of people in the world’s poorest countries, could find his work to be very moving.
Lasch’s ‘Media Defacements’ is rather known artwork by an activist who’s enough challenging to jump into a range scale of media to re-evaluate social burdens and injustices in his native Latin America making parallels to other countries with huge political crisis.
Photo: Pedro Lasch (c)
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