In this state of relative non-recognition within the discourse and
debate around art and culture in general, the subject of the «reductive» as a possible antithesis to the overpowering reintroduction of representational painting and at the same time to the emergence of the focus on new media, technology and photography, has regained
considerable strength over the last decade within an international frame of cultural production and commerce, as well as through the firmly held lone positions of artists like Mosset, Charlton, Armleder, Morellet, Palermo and others throughout the 80's and 90's.
In a last roll of the die before the UN climate negotiations conclude in December 2015 in Paris, the Venezuelan Government has gone to
considerable trouble to pull off Chavez's vision of shifting the
debate around climate change by gathering several hundred members of social movements and civil society organisations here in Las Margaritas for the social preCOP.