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 Abdel Hernandez san Juan Semiótic of art and cultural anthropology Stablished living in Texas as permanent resident since 1998 Abdel Hernández San Juan is a theoretician and writer author of books such as Rethinking Urban Anthropology, Anthropology of archaeology: A Perspective from Ethnometodology and cultural anthropology, The Intramundane Horizont: Hermeneutic and Phenomenology of Everyday Life, The Indeterminist True, Being and Monad, Self and Acervo: The Self and the social between writing, research and culture, The Thresholds of the Couple: Self-Ethnography,  The World Correlate: Interpretant and Structure in Posmodern Cultural Theory, Given and the Ungiven, The Presentational Linguistic, The Constelations of Common Sense: sociology of common sense and anthropology research theory, amongst many others.      A Guest Scholard of the faculty of sociology and anthropology of the lake forest college of Illinois in his area of research of anthropology, eth...
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Cultural bodies

  Cultural Bodies: Cristina Jadic (USA). ©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan,  Houston, Texas, USA Ethnographer and Cultural Theorist, Research Associate,  Anthropology Department- Rice University Cristina Jadick is a young Cuban American Artist born in the United States. Her visual work is characterized by a strong personal style, that places  us on a new and provocative road at the intersection between the languages of Contemporary Art and cultural performances that explore identity and memory. Today in a world of growing information complexity and generalized markets, the definitions of  "the aesthetic" as well as "the beautiful" are outdated.  The aesthetic, in a highly pragmatized universe, acts as a therapeutic vehicle to define the  everyday experiences and becomes an ideal place to explore cultural resonances and values that may not be expressed in the typifying language of common sense. The exhibit presented here, "Cultural Bodies", is an example of ...
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The principles of informalism

  The Principles of informalism ©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan Houston, Texas, USA Written in english by Abdel hernandez San juan    I am hearing someone naming Terrell James, speaking on her in a thirst person and my feeling is depth, Terrell James, Terrell James, it is like saying Mel chin, or Tracy hicks or Grotfeld, a regional, Texas local art which has being always a characteristic of usa art first strongly stablished in cultural regions and later moved through national or international scenarios,    she is a subtly, delicated and refined woman, whose work communicates something of the soul of a cultural region, Houston-and Texas, she has explored a cultural informalism something unknown yet previously through informalism even in the united states, her work communicates cultural resonances of Texas land and the border culture, but from the individual person interior subjectivity perspective    We have in Texas two artists with this mud.   ...
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Culture in art from texas

 Culture in Art from Texas (USA) ©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan,  Houston, Texas, USA Written and composed in English by abdel Hernández san Juan      Texas culture is a unique phenomena in the unites States. While there are of course to many interpretations on the issue given the fact that Texas has embodied seen from outside of the state several stereotypes of common sense meanings such as for example the image of Texas as the main land of the oil, on the one side, or as the state which capsulate the more technological and modern towns of the country toward ideas of future cities and or by being the land of nasa, such outside stereotypes creates an image of course unrecognize Texas cultural specifities.    There are as ever to many ways of course to afford culture but one of the often privilege way to go in deep around a culture revolves around discussing its art.    In this sense instead of discussing Texas culture by affording it as a text ...
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Alchemies of the senses

  Alchemies of the Sense: Arturo Duclos (Chilean). ©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan,  Houston, Texas, USA      The recent work of Chilean artist Arturo Duclos, in particular his series Serifot that he is exhibiting at Sicardi Gallery as part of Armonia Chimica, is among contemporary Latinoamerican art one of the most complete expressions of the postmodernist game with the seduction of meanings. We are confronted with an artist who invites the viewer to walk on the subtle edge that exist between our distance and our identification with the most mundane values of popular culture. The artist avoid the official representations to show the distance between what it is and what it should be.       Ordinary and extraordinary, timid and extroverted, circumspect and charming, vain and sophisticated, vulgar and aristocratic, what are this canvases expressing. One hand we find a syncretizing operation in which the artist has gathered in one space the aesthet...
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The gaze resilience

  The gaze resilience: a duple archaeology By Abdel Hernández San Juan Conceived, componed and translated to english by Abdel hernandez San juan    Light is in nature, this is out of doubt, but light forth participates in our sense of presence, something must thus be presence to us only when light is there, whence, while light is nature, it also participates in the phenomenological assure which made us have a certitude of ourselves, with our subjectivity under it.    A river, is a natural phenomenon out of us but as soon as a river made presence to us through light according to our gaze, we can’t simply set aside as easy our subjective impression evolved through our gaze from the pregiven nature of it.   Remembering that according to barthes, the gaze and the soul grow and born together –the soul born exactly when we must say that the gaze is already formed in the child--, the gaze is not a passive perception of the pregiven neither simply an objective refl...
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Neither inside nor outside

  Neither Inside, Nor Outside ©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan    The work of LIHIE TALMOR functions as a film of the subversive unconscious. Her works fix and retain, in a sort of miniature map of the semiotic memory of the group, the tiny settings of conscience, the meticulous task of separating and uniting, holding back and liberating. There, where the individual is alert, attentive to what he sees and to what happens, in that space of tension where the accent of conscience is formed, LIHIE builds small texts which work as nodules, hinges, transit structures representing nothing but the very gesture making them, the accumulation that makes words and actions probable.    The work of LIHIE TALMOR is not a window refracting reality as its reference, nor a simulacrum writing substituting reality under the illusion of a collection of topics. In her works, "the city", "the body" and "the memory" are inclusive; the constructive shapes of the pieces permeate from i...
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