Seville Biennial
Just back from Spain where I managed to see the Seville Biennial http://www.fundacionbiacs.com/biacs3/index.php in the Monasterio de la Cartuja de Santa María de las Cuevas. I thought as I entered that it is a brave curator who has “Miraculous Moments” written over the entrance. I have a number of responses to the show: the actual experience of individual works; the fairly clear but fragmented curatorial concept and then the catalogue. Luckily I didn’t read the latter until after I had seen the show. Particular highlights for me were Tamás Waliczky ’s ‘Landscape’ - http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$5790 Rafael lozano-hemmer ’s ‘Tercera persona’ http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/eproyecto.html Austrian Ruth Schnell ’s ‘Retinal Scripts’ were a striking effect installed at various locations around the site. At first glance these appeared to be simple lines of small lights but as the website says “hologram-like words that are generated by transmitting high frequency light impulses to l