A real Pollock??
What is Art? What is value? What is authorship? What is an expert? What is suffering?

Justin Bieber y Peña Nieto (Presidente de México) se reunen por primera vez en Los Pinos.
(Instant History Painting)
JL
Acrílico
2013

"He who offers for sale something unique that no-one wants to buy, represents, even against his will, freedom from exchange."
Theodor Adorno. (1944)

Es difícil, eso del poder, lograr superar el vértigo desde ahí arriba del ladrillo, no? No creen? Esto nunca pasa en la realidad, no? No están pensando ahorita mismo en una persona específica que actúa exactamente de esta manera, no? No saben en quien pienso yo, verdad? Ni idea?

Is that a victim of Hitler in your anatomy handbook?

And there was more: a link between university scientists and Heinrich Gross, the doctor who headed the infants’ ward of Spiegelgrund, the children’s wing of the Vienna Psychiatric Hospital, during the war. Gross did painful experiments on living children there, some of whom died as a result. One child who survived said the children called Gross “the Scythe”; another remembered that his arrival on the ward “was like a cold wind coming.” All told, 772 children were killed at Spiegelgrund, about half of them from Gross’ ward. In 1948, he was charged with murder. But the penal code he was prosecuted under did not define murder to include disabled peoplebecause they were “not capable of reasoning.” He was found guilty only of manslaughter, and when Gross appealed and won, the prosecutor chose not to retry him.

Gross returned to Spiegelgrund (it had been renamed) and continued his research using brain specimens from the children who had been killed there. He published 35 papers, some written with University of Vienna faculty. He also testified as a psychiatric expert in thousands of cases in the Austrian court. In 1975, he was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art.

As the University of Vienna committee brought renewed attention to this history, evidence against Gross also surfaced in the files of the Stasi, the East German secret police. In 1999, he was indicted for murder again. But Gross’ lawyers said he had Alzheimer’s and could not understand the proceedings against him. The court accepted this defense. But Seidelman does not believe it. “Do you know what Gross did?” he asked. “He smiled and went off to a coffee shop with his friends and family to celebrate.”

 MARTES 12 DE NOVIEMBRE 2013  / AUDITORIO DE LA UNIDAD DE POSGRADO, CIUDAD UNIVERSITARIA                                    

HORA	PONENTE	TÍTULO DE LA PONENCIA
10:00-10:30	INAUGURACIÓN
10:30-11:30	Elías Pérez (España)	Ciudad, entorno y fotografía en la práctica artística contemporánea.
11:30-12:15	Dr. Eduardo Antonio Chávez Silva Mtro. Ernesto Rivera Barrón	Las tocadas sonideras como paisaje urbano. Una experiencia académica compartida
12:15-13:00	Dra. Marina Garone Gravier	Las cartas de Artemisa: Comunicación escrita indígena y entorno social.
13:00-13:30	RECESO
13:30-14:15	Cesar González Ochoa	El papel del diseñador en la construcción del entorno.
14:15-14:45	Adrián Gómez (Colombia)	Dinámicas Relacionales
14:45-15:15	Jorge Ismael Rodríguez México	Arte polen y apropiación. (Dos ensayos de colonización positiva a través de las prácticas artísticas de un bisnieto de Quetzalcóatl.)
15:15-17:00	RECESO PARA COMIDA
17:00-17:30	Mtro. John Lundberg	Arte & entorno –Un acercamiento
17:30-18:00	Mtro. Luis Enrique Betancourt Santillán	Contornos en expansión, aura y hado del diseño.
18:00-18:30	Mtro. Yuri Alberto  Aguilar Hernández	"Zoomatl: Zoológico de madera en Tlalpan"
18:30-19:30	Peter Krieger	Estética de la contaminación atmosférica

One of the most enduring and endearing aspects of the work of Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss is how it exhibits their fondness for everyday things. The video Büsi (Kitty) features a close-up of a cat lapping milk in a domestic environment. It was originally exhibited on an oversized video screen in New York's Times Square as part of a public art program, The 59th Minute: Video Art on the Times Square Astrovision. Given that this public space is usually reserved for slick commercials and news programming, it was an incongruous setting for a video of a cat deciding to pause for something to drink. While the lush, high-definition quality of the Büsi video suggests a commercial for a pet product, the lack of a soundtrack, deliberate overexposure, and slapdash framing give the work the look of an amateur video of a family pet. By simply changing the frame of reference, by restaging the commonplace within the landscape of art and/or commerce, Fischli and Weiss make the ordinary seem extraordinary.

Cy Twombly
Untitled, 1992.

1000

T S Eliot and Chuck Norris at night in a Omaha wheat-field painted in the style of Bruce Springsteen ca. 1980.
JL 2013
Acrylic 25 x 20 cm

Every work of art is an uncommited crime.
-T. Adorno. (1945)

Jl, 2013.