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Slow reading on art: works, artists and the act of looking.

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Anatomy of an Artwork · 1 May 2025
Anatomy of an Artwork #3: Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1897)
“Can the three great questions of existence fit into a single painting?” We explore the visual testament Gauguin created in Tahiti and the cyclical anatomy of life.
Anatomy of an Artwork · 12 April 2025
Anatomy of an Artwork #2: Remedios Varo, Sympathy (1955)
In Remedios Varo’s Sympathy we explore the anatomy of cat, woman and cosmic bonds. Sympathy or empathy? A surrealist search for tenderness.

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