Tuesday, October 20

Alvaro Barrios - Marcel Duchamp admirer dialogs with Kieth Haring

Left: "Untitled (The Wedding Present)", 2008 Right "Untitled, 2007 Although the Colombian artist Alvaro Barrios has a great admiration for Marcel Duchamp, expressed here at his left work, he also dialogs with other artists. Mr. Haring at the right is Keith Haring. Confused? Hmmm... if so I will give the clues at the next posts. Art is a also a dialog with the past and sometimes if we don't know the reference we don't understand. This is one of the reasons some people say "Is it Art?"