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The complimentary text

febrero 04, 2023

The Complimentary Text: Visual Icons and Alphabetic text in Ethnographic Conceptualism ©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan Houston, Texas Este ensayo está enfocado en discutir mi concepto de los textos complementarios y/o suplementarios en las artes visuales contemporáneas y en llevarlo a términos en una interpretación empírica, el concepto se refiere eminentemente a textos entendidos en el sentido alfabético, es decir, textos escritos mediante el uso de la palabra, la oración o el párrafo. Dado que se trata en lo que sigue de un análisis sobre formas del arte visual contemporáneo desarrolladas todas dentro de la tradición del llamado conceptualismo en las artes visuales debemos remarcar en el hecho de que en el conceptualismo tenemos momentos en los cuales la obra consiste solo en una palabra escrita, un texto alfabético como una oración e incluso un párrafo o varios párrafos escritos sin recurrencia ninguna a iconos o materiales visuales más que...

Pyche ethnography report

febrero 04, 2023

Psyche Ethnography Reports Suponiendo el recorrido del espectador según iría encontrando las obras de la muestra una a una desde el inicio al final, tenemos al inicio de frente seis marcos de madera y cristal rectangulares de aproximadamente 40 cm de largo por 20 cm de ancho y 2 cm de profundidad expuestos en las paredes que presentan seis collages con imágenes de la mitología griega y tenemos seis poemas de la artista escritos a mano sobre una tela ligera que ha sido teñida con te en un rosado muy claro. Los poemas de la artista cuando los leemos versan sobre su mundo imaginario, imágenes relacionadas a su subjetividad intima en los cuales eventualmente puede leerse algún nombre o palabra procedente de la mitología griega. Hasta aquí tenemos en lo visual imágenes de pinturas de mujeres semi-desnudas y otros iconos que pueden ser reconocidas por algunos espectadores como relativas a la antigüedad griega en tanto para otros es requerido el sup...

Research on art

My current research on art is focussed in a continuation of my usual semiotic theory approaches to art encompasing semiotic analysis of language, visual signs, semas, sememas, semantemas and visual icons with from semantique critique cultural analysis so from semiotic theory to cultural linguistic anthropology of art In that senses i am doing compendiums of a part my art criticism proposing, developing and demonstrating how a scientific higly disciplinary knowledge of semiotic theory as the discipline is higly defined in the semiotic traditión, from Charles Sanders peirce to modern semiotic, barthes, eco, todorov, etc, might help in both analysing and interpreting but also understanding on the one hand language and on the hand the reconfiguration of culture, art and identity in complex societies providing an exiting and deeper discusión of language in art in Texas, San Francisco, los ángeles and another usa cities as well as adding some of my collected writings on art from México, Venezuela and havana. This collections demonstrate extending semiotic análysis to sintáctical semantique criticism and approachings of morfology, form and aesthetic how cultural anthropology must succesfully work incorporated into and from disciplinary semiotic análysis of art as text and of culture as text from the texts of art. This is not and is far to be as in previous anthropology an instrumental use of lingüístic and semiotic to analize by homologies and analogies non language issues, less a form to confirm within the visual what in obtained about culture outside the visual, but the oposite, a knowledge analysis of culture obtained from the analysis of the visual text, so culture as text interpreted by discussing the visual texts of art something rigurously obtained by the semiotic analysis of visual signs, simbols, codes, sigtagms, semas, sememas, semantemas, graphemes and icons. This is even less yet an use of semiotic theory to understand the work piece of anthropology writing as a piece of literacy and rethoric in the sense of a semiotic theory of receptión: the usual trilogy author (the anthropologist author writing), message (his literary work as rethoric) , receptor (the audience), as in literary criticism, but instead a disciplinary practice of semiotic analysis of visual language by which analysing, interpreting and discussing signs and símbols unveiling how the semiotic of art criticism migh be cultural anthropology. An amazing innovative collections of language analysis and interpretatión and a unique and remarkable contributión to the understanding and apretiation of current art across urban spatialities and cities including both exhibits cúrated and presented at rice University, Houston, Texas, spring 1997 by myself toguether with Venezuelan American curator and critic surpik angelini and our earlier co-founded transart Foundation of houston as well as on art presented by another curators, museums, galleries or the artists studios. From the perspectives of rethorics in anthropology this is nothing more than author writings multitextual intercultural anthropology

Focuss on art

In Specific to my work as contemporary art critic and curator approaching art I has developed a peculiar theoretical attention to painting after the Intertextuals, remedos, pastiches, urdimbres, texeres, etc., but also the visual arts in general discussing from exegesis and axiology, the current mixtures of languages, atmospheres, effects, images and procedures with accent to perception which is evolved with the increasing relation between art and environment, art and the city, art and the Inmaterials, art and the remnants, art and heuristics, interiority and exteriority of the arts, the posinegdotical impulse, the stills of readymade and a variety of issues surrounding the paradoxes of ephemerality at the time of faster technologies velocities of communication and multimedialization, with both, the virtualization of the institutional as a matter of passages, the site-non site specifics, and its effects on materiality and the images of the body as well as the different forms of poetries coming from such dynamics, from fund objects to artifacts, obicuities and panopticism, something that has inclined my form of art critic as writing to the exploration of domains exchanges between, on the side of forms, aesthetic theory and semiotic, philosophizing forms and on the side of culture, semantic analysis and anthropology from the anthropology of art to cultural anthropology, exploring my own ways of experimenting the decursive aspects of writings on art despites from mobility, travels and multisite as writer in a time of massive consumption, medias and global trends of communication discussing art from San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Texas, Mexico, Los Angeles, Caracas

research on art abstract

Stablished living in Texas as permanent resident since 1998 Abdel Hernandez San Juan is a guest scholard in the area of semiotic theory, anthropology and art theory of the faculty of classical and Hispanic studies at rice university during 1996, he has teached several art theory lectures and courses in the united states such as at the Fondren library lectures auditoriums, the rice media center lectures auditorium and is the curator and presenter in Houston of seven exhibits on campus with the rice media center, the faculties of art and architecture at rice university and the transart foundation of Houston co-curated with Surpik Angelini, writer and author of compendiums of his own criticism such as An Expedition to the Threshold, Texas, 1997, between others, his art theory and art criticism essays are published at Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas, he lectured at the glassel school of art of the museum of fine art of Houston and as a guest of los Angeles art festival at the Japanize house of culture of los Angeles, curator of contemporary Venezuelan art at the alejandro otero museum of visual art since 1994