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Artwork by Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Kutlug Ataman, Matthew Barney, Olafur Eliasson, Andreas Gursky. Photographs by Rineke Dijkstra.

Gracias a la capacidad del cine para hacernos soñar, millones de personas han podido navegar por mares y océanos, Desde los albores del cinematógrafo se han producido películas sobre el mar, en ocasiones —aunque escasas—, potenciando sus bondades; en otras —demasiadas—, explorando su peor vertiente: las tragedias de los naufragios y la inmigración, la delincuencia de la piratería o del narcotráfico, la ambición de conquista, la precariedad de los pescadores Pero, a pesar de la brutalidad con la que a veces se manifiesta, el mar suscita un atractivo —quizás atávico porque de él ...

The book is a selection of 112 works from approximately four hundred thousand works in the Pinacoteca, in various technique and disciplines by artists from the late 19th and 20th centuries who represent more than 100 years in the field of visual arts. Artists include: Pablo O'Higgins, Ignacio Martínez Tendon, Arturo Marty, Alfredo Ramos Martínez, Angel Zárraga among many others.

Light, words, and the ephemeral -that shifting condition of random- are concepts present in some form in the entire oeuvre of Chema Alvargonzalez (1960-2009), an artist who divided the two decades of his career between Barcelona and Berlin. Whereas Bruce Nauman and Dan Flavin are Alvargonzalez's direct sources in the way he configures the space through experimentation with lighting, Mallarmé serves as the basis of his linguistic approach to the practice of art. Alvargonzalez often accords words the status of objects which -rather than locking in a meaning- enables him to achieve a semantic...