My journeys through the history of art began with the romantic landscapes of Lenau, Hölderlin and Caspar David Friedrich; their visions of sublime nature, divided and segregated from modern self-awareness; and the desolate and empty landscapes of that consciousness. Later, I focused my attention on Paul Klee and his lyrical recovery of an alienated and distant nature. I continued my journey through other European artists and writers. It was then that I understood the regressive role and the unifying and homogenizing linguistic function implicit in the sequence No Art–Abstract Art–Art as Performance–Post Art embedded in the anti-aesthetic discourses from Dada to the spectacle designed and produced by the corporate entities of CNN, RT, DW…
These essays are: La flor y el cristal (1987); La transfiguración de la noche: Hugh Ferriss (1992); Vanguarda, mídia, metrópoles (1993); El reino de la belleza (2003); El arte en una edad de destrucción (2010); and Las pinturas de Jorge Castillo (2017).