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Arnaldo Simón and the disturbing images of Artvertising
BY JOAQUIN BADAJOZ
Cuban-American artist Arnaldo Simón has brought to another stage his bad readings of Joseph Kosuth’s narra-
tive, becoming a new agent provocateur, recycling vintage advertising in his photomontages and digital prints.
raw/war: a visual essay
BY JOAQUIN BADAJOZ
For almost twenty years the most pacific man on Earth – lf a creature or that son exists- has devoted himself to
performing a meticulous and disturbing autopsy to war— and to create his anti-war machines-laborious, intricate and discrete as Trojan horses.
“Theater of Operations’: Maneuvers by Arnaldo Simón”
BY PATRICIA SICRE
In the 1980s, during his frequent visits to Havana, American trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie remarked to his colleagues that despite the ongoing diaspora affecting the island…
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‘T.O. (Theater of Operations)’, by Arnaldo Simón, a plea about our era
BY JANET BATET
In June 1940, facing the imminent Nazi invasion of France, Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti fled the French capital. During his escape, he confronted the horrors of war…
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on how to disarm the symbology of power
BY ADRIANA HERRERA
A genealogy of art as a record of war would make it necessary to go back to the unmemorable battles registered in reliefs or painted on Egyptian papyri…
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Laberinto de lecturas
BY JESUS ROSADO
‘Mambrú se fue a la Guerra’, de Arnaldo Simón: una exposición que saca partido a las posibilidades del fotomontaje y del clásico collage.
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Arnaldo Simón. Concrete Space
BY ADRIANA HERRERA
Curated by Joaquín Badajoz, the exhibition titled “Raw War” by Arnaldo Simón (Cuba, 1958?) at the Concrete Space gallery in Doral, Florida.
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Anagrams of War
BY JANET BATET
The name Raw War gives title to Arnaldo Simón’s (Pinar del Rio, Cuba) most recent personal exhibition now open to the public at Concrete Space, in Doral.
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Raw/War, interview
BY ADRIANA HERRERA
Curated by Joaquín Badajoz, “RAW/WAR” is on view until July 7th at Concrete Art Space in Doral. The exhibition consists of a selection of recent works by Arnaldo Simón.
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