Botany and conflict; scientific outlook and political agenda; classification and exclusion systems; botanical taxonomy and exploitation of natural resources. The validity of these concepts, which have been coupled since the times of the conquest and ...

A drawing of a hand that draws another hand drawing... In 1948, Maurits Cornelis Escher drew two intertwined hands that represented infinity, the time that never ends. This is one of the many optical illusions invented by this master of impossible ...

"Do you suffer from 'periodical' intellectual sadness? Aesthetic depression, fatigue, aversion toward life, manic depression, congenital mediocrity, gelatinous imbecility, diamond kidney stones, impotency or frigidity? Take Dalinal, the artificial ...

Concern with establishing man's evolutional line has been a constant in our history and new findings often cast doubt on certain aspects of human evolution. What does seem clear though is that Earth's process of hominisation and humanisation began ...

Nikos Navridis (Athens, 1958) is one of the leading exponents of the new generation of Greek artists. He represented his country in the international biennials of São Paulo (1996), Istanbul (1997), Santa Fe in New Mexico (1999) and Venice (2001), ...

Socially committed, political, outlandish... More and more, today's exhibitions are in want of a thematic vehicle, as if art could not be shown without a leitmotiv. The belief that the work of art can ‘exist' on its own, that is, be exclusively ...

From 3 December 2003 to 11 January 2004, at the Centro de Arte Palacio Almudí in Murcia, "la Caixa" presents the set of works acquired by the foundation over the 2002-2003 season for the Col·lecció Testimoni. Organised by Murcia City Council and "la ...

On 14 November the irsiCaixa Foundation will host the 4th International Symposium on HIV Eradication which will present, among other recent findings, the first results concerning the therapeutic vaccine for patients already infected by the human ...

Providing a meeting point in which the 1990s artistic production of young Portuguese and Spanish creators could come face-to-face and relate to each other is the main objective of this exhibition that arises out of close collaboration between ...