Past show http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/infinitas-gracias.aspx Infinitas Gracias: Mexican miracle paintings. Wellcome collection offers a library of extraordinary commemoration stories By Giuseppe Marasco Current exhibition of The Mexican votive Paintings at the Wellcome collection . Are prepared and offered to a chapel in thanks for miraculous assistance or relief in a time of need. Dating from the Revolution…
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Lichtenstein In London – Occasional evidence of an odd vulnerablity
By Giuseppe Marasco New Tate Modern Show Of interesting in this show are the Landscapes Liechtenstein Attends to. There is at play a concern with the vanishing point, and the flatness of the canvas surface. The vanishing point is traditionally associated with the limit of the spectators sight , and so the limit of what…
Disappearing Hands And Phantom Limbs found across London
By Giuseppe Marasco Disappearing hands, seeming standing in, fit, for work and handedness no longer present, no longer visible. A last evidence, slowly dissolving, of the construction of the material present. This hand, the pocket bubble of time that it may represent, lingers on a little longer like a tracer. Soon about to be eaten…
Pomegranates Food of the Underworld
Abducted by Hades, Persephone was given only a pomegranate to endure the profound hunger, she’d met in the underworld. The very model of restraint. She resisted and consumed only three of the fruit Berries. Each fruit represented a month, in the deal struck with Hades. These now, are our winter months. The Pomegranates made by…