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Mundillos— The World With Which We Surround Ourselves: The Reina Sofia gallery scene (1114 words) Tangled Up In Blue Xanon, Galería de Arte: Charles Malinksy My name's Lolita Art Madrid: Teresa Moro Jur. Vanstaen’s Bio-Lógico at Budo El Perro at Galería Salvador Díaz Nono Bandera: Photo España: best of the festival Vicente Blanco: it sometimes happens you're sleeping |
Jur. Vanstaen’s Bio-Lógico at Budo
January 2006 - MAP magazine Budo Cheek to Cheek Productions and Dutch artist Jur. Vanstaen’s Bio-Lógico, “un grado de suspense” finds its way to the most unlikely of art expositions. Kitschy gift shop Budo, which besides offering hip, vintage decor, houses Vanstaen’s metaphoric water-and-light photographs; its retro-designed hammocks add to the hovering nature of the exhibition. After working a number of years in Holland, Indonesia, and U.S.A, Vanstaen now lives in Madrid and brings us this collection put together “in the sub-aquatic landscape of Indonesia.” Transitory in nature, the collection consists of shimmering, aquatic backdrops and human limbs placed in symmetrical formations not unlike Rorschach inkblot tests. The ephemeral “bio-logical” imagery, with the objective of having us “think of imaginary lives,” could suggest any number of self-interpreted metaphoric references from sexual to escapist in a watery imaginary world unseen anywhere this side of Atlantis. |