One of the tasks of art criticism is 
to make evident the discursive qualities of artistic creation.

Words to be looked at

But that’s art too, isn’t it? A relief, a shelter, a justification of everything we stand for.

Total transparency is only possible through total control—the latter only exists in a dictatorship.

It is universal capacity Primordial creativity.

Art exceeds the population of objects, acts, bodies, and events of reality, since it is composed by no more than the combination of parts of the real, and the possibilities of permutation border on the infinite.

It is necessary to actively assume a position to eradicate the superficiality and loss of ideals.

Der fortschrittliche Zeitpfeil biegt sich zu Kreisen und
so kehrt auch die These der Peak Art wieder.

Aber können wir es uns als Gesellschaft leisten, auf die Utopie zu verzichten?

If life were completely rational

We hope you can see this book as we do: as an extension of memory; interpretations of our time that aspire to reinvent the world anew, “as a whole to be imagined”.

Books are portraits of their time; they are like mirrors, reflecting how we see and perceive ourselves.

Art and aesthetics are a kind of problematic equation, perhaps a forgotten or even interrupted relationship that has to be reconsidered over and over again.

Towards a New Art Criticism From Latin America

souvenir (words)

ENTKUNSTUNG I Preface