The What versus the How: Contemporary Art and Critical Writing. By Juan Cárdenas

A novelist and essayist, Juan Cárdenas’s books are all journeys back and forth between seemingly irreconcilable worlds: Europe and Latin America, art and science, substrata and surface. In his most recent essay, La ligereza, he addresses an abyss that intellectuals find difficult to face: the abyss into which, despite the many revolutions in the realm of museums, “the people and art have been cast”, where everything is arranged in order to “seduce the boss or supplant them”. The abyss in which we are capable of fetishising everything from good causes to their true or supposed subjects of redemption.

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