Juanjo Santos is a spanish hypertraveller art critic specializing in Latin American art and a friend of Jerry Saltz (on Facebook). He is also a curator and has a website, www.juanjosantos.com.
Interview
We all have that friend we love to invite to our birthdays because he always come with an shocking present, a giant Scalextric, a human skull, or a disturbingly realistic dildo. For David Bowie, that friend is artist Tony Oursler.
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SANTIAGO, Chile — In Chile, things are happening. On the one hand, there's a group of artists (born in the late seventies and early eighties) travelling outside the country but, for the first time, regulary returning and mounting exhibitions inside the borders. On the other hand, the younger artists
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SANTIAGO, Chile — Walk down a flight of stairs and open the door. The door closes behind you and you find yourself in a dark room. You disappear; you can’t leave the space and don’t have a point of reference. A few minutes later, 500 silhouettes of the heads of 500 different people throw a diffuse w
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SANTIAGO, Chile — The name of the first urban intervention festival in Santiago de Chile, “Hecho en Casa” (“Homemade”), simply comes from the mission of the activities: the aspiration to create a festival for people in downtown Santiago, to make them feel that the streets are their home.