La música sabía lo que yo siento : Ensayos sobre arte 2011-2025

Music Knew What I Feel is the fourth collection of essays on art by Enrique Juncosa, one of the most active art curators of our time. The book brings together more than thirty short essays published over the last fifteen years, a period in which he has worked as an independent curator. His predominant focus is post-minimalist art, which emerged in the 1970s and championed the importance of meaning. The themes of these essays are varied, including analyses of the works of sculptors such as Susana Solano, Richard Deacon, Joana Vasconcelos, and Iran do Espirito Santo; painters such as Peter Halley, Philip Taaffe, Janaina Tschäpe, Francesco Clemente, Juan Uslé, Lari Pittman, and Terry Winters; and photographers such as Sakiko Nomura. In addition, the book includes texts on Joan Miró, Joan Brossa, Federico García Lorca as a draftsman, and the persistence of hermetic traditions in contemporary art, which Juncosa traces in the work of figures as diverse as Harry Smith, Aleister Crowley, Agnes Martin, Rudolf Steiner, Kenneth Anger, Joseph Beuys, Sun Ra, and Alejandro Jodorowsky. Juncosa sees contemporary art museums as machines that generate distinct narratives—emphasizing the plural—which sometimes connect with one another, but not necessarily, much like Roberto Bolaño's great novels, which tell different stories simultaneously. Since the 1990s, Juncosa has also been a pioneer in highlighting the work of artists from the Global South. His vision of contemporary art does not reject visual pleasure or an understanding of art as knowledge in itself, issues he considers compatible with metalinguistic reflection or art that is both identity-based and political.