By: Ramón Cabrera Salort
Ernesto Benitez is a young artist who since the mid-1990s has been building a solid visual proposal based on human ontological concerns of universal bias -the spiritual, the material, life, death. Since his exhibition “The Light of the Body” in 1998, he began a poetics centered on the alchemical, on the artist as shaman and materials such as charcoal, ash, salt, wood and iron, or photography as a transmutative procedure, among others, have constituted components of the configuration of his proposals…
By: Inti Atanasio Yanes
“Not without regret does one abandon, once discovered, the place of origin”.
(Hörderlin)
In his research on the “origin of the work of art”, Martin Heidegger develops one of the fundamental ideas of his aesthetic thought and legacy: “The origin of the work of art is art: that is, art is in its essence an origin, a characteristic way in which truth is brought to the entities, becomes a historical event”.This conception encloses a specific way of apprehending the essence of the artistic beyond any “external” criteria…
