El bosque: cobijo del arte y metáfora de regreso desde 1968

The landscape genre resurfaced with renewed forces beginning in the sixties of the twentieth century through the land art and the earthworks. The pioneers Americans felt a special love for the desert and the places which are difficult to access by placing their works, a gesture that broke the relations of the work of art with the traditional places of exposure (museums, galleries). At the same time, is also accentuated the mental dimension of art, opening the way toward the conceptual. In recent years a second generation of creators, which also operate in the nature, choose the forest as scenario of their proposals. The object of this work is to demonstrate how the works of these artists are warns a intention of double return: on the one hand, to the materiality of a work of art and at the other end to a metaphorical origin through the figure of the forest, a space that, since the eruption of the environmentalism is understood as a synonym for paradise.El género del paisaje resurgió con fuerzas renovadas a partir de los años sesenta del siglo XX a través del land art y los earthworks. Los pioneros norteamericanos sintieron una especial predilección por el desierto y los lugares de difícil acceso para colocar sus obras, gesto que rompía las relaciones de la obra de arte con los lugares tradicionales de exposición (museos, galerías). Al tiempo, se acentuaba también la dimensión mental del arte, abriendo la vía hacia el conceptual. En los últimos años una segunda generación de creadores, que también operan en la naturaleza, elige el bosque como escenario de sus propuestas. El objeto de este trabajo es poner de manifiesto cómo en la obra de estos artistas se advierte una intención de doble retorno: por una parte, a la materialidad de la obra de arte y por otra a un origen metafórico a través de la figura del bosque, espacio que, desde la irrupción del ecologismo se entiende como sinónimo de paraíso

Volver al bosque. Nostalgia, utopía y juego

The genre of the lanscape was consolidated with the start of the contemporary world to become one of the busiest roads of the artistic field. The landscape is fashionable and the forest is one of the most alluded spaces in the artistic scene. Suffice it to recall the proliferation of sculpture parks located in these leafy areas. But, before analyzing the museistic capacity of the forest, or its relationship with science or the discourses that try to make art a banner of sustainability,the paragraphs that follow are going to delineate the ways in which some creators have returned to the forest, an argument that has to do with the emotional relationship that individuals has been stablishing with this space over time.; El género del paisaje se consolidó con el arranque del mundo contemporáneo hasta convertirse en una de las vías más transitadas del terreno artístico. El paisaje está de moda y el bosque es uno de los espacios más aludidos en la escena artística. Baste recordar la proliferación de parques de esculturas situados en estas áreas frondosas. Pero, antes que analizar la capacidad museística del bosque, o su relación con la ciencia o los discursos que tratan de hacer del arte una bandera en pro de la sostenibilidad, los párrafos que siguen van a delinear los modos en que algunos creadores han vuelto al bosque, un argumento que tiene que ver con la relación emotiva que los individuos han venido estableciendo con este espacio a lo largo del tiemp

Too large for a head or no the limits of saying and on the impossibility of seeing

[EN] Taking the exhibition project “Que no cabe en la cabeza” (Too large for the head) as a starting point, this paper examines the conditions which certain artistic works impose on the act of seeing and, therefore, on the reception of the artist’s poetical intentions. It is thus aimed at proposing an approach to contemporary painting grounded on certain reading keys closely linked to the knowledge in processes, to materials, to time and to the act of lingering. The title of that exhibition project brings us face to face with a twofold proposal on the one hand, it asks us to discover with our own eyes what lies behind that seeming play on words when we physically face the artworks in the exhibition; and on the other hand, it asks us to consider what actually is “too large for the head”—as a metaphor for judgement and reason. The elusive and impermanent nature of those works is meant to recall the infinite number of things and questions that we cannot grasp, precisely because they are “too large for the head”, because we cannot understand or comprehend them. And yet, the power that the “head” has over our subjectivity, and the prominence that our culture has given to that way of knowledge, is enormous.[ES] Partiendo del proyecto expositivo que lleva por título “Que no cabe en la cabeza”, presentado en el Centro del Carmen (Valencia) en 2016-2017, se plantea aquí una reflexión sobre las condiciones que ciertas obras de arte imponen en el ver y, por lo tanto, en la recepción de las intenciones poéticas del artista que las ha creado. Se trata así de plantear un posible acercamiento al arte contemporáneo desde unas claves de lectura íntimamente relacionadas con el saber del proceso, con la materia, con el tiempo y con la demora. La naturaleza escurridiza e impermanente de estos trabajos ayuda a darse cuenta de que son infinitas las cosas y las cuestiones que se escapan precisamente porque no nos caben en la cabeza, porque somos incapaces de entender, de comprender, de asimilar. Y sin embargo, es inmenso el poder que “esa cabeza” tiene sobre nuestra propia subjetividad y enorme el protagonismo que en nuestra cultura occidental le hemos otorgado a esa forma de conocer. Esta ponencia, partiendo del proyecto artístico al que se ha hecho referencia, pretende reflexionar sobre esa paradoja propia de nuestro hegemónico sistema cultural en el que quedan cubiertos o debilitados otros modos de conocer capaces de impregnarse de los distintos universos personales e intransferibles de lo vivido.Garcerá Ruiz, F.; Santamaría Fernández, AE. (2017). Que no cabe en la cabeza o de los límites del decir y de la imposibilidad del ver. En Glocal [codificar, mediar, transformar, vivir] III Congreso Internacional de Investigación en Artes Visuales. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 263-269. https://doi.org/10.4995/ANIAV.2017.4893OCS26326

I Jornadas sobre Arte, Ecología y Uso Público de Espacios Naturales Protegidos

Publicación de las Jornadas que celebró el mes de marzo de 2016, en el Parque Nacional Las Tablas de Daimiel, la asociación Cultura de Ribera con el objetivo de hacer de la cultura y el arte elementos para la conservación de nuestros Espacios Naturales Protegidos. Además de dar unas nociones sobre el paisaje y el territorio de La Mancha Húmeda, en la obra, se traza un panorama histórico sobre Las Tablas y su importancia como el primer Parque Nacional que fue declarado, en gran medida, gracias a la presión ciudadana y del, por entonces, incipiente movimiento ecologista. También se puede encontrar una visión ética de la conservación medioambiental, los antecedentes históricos y experiencias actuales del arte como vector para la conservación de los Espacios Naturales Protegidos y una reflexión sobre el papel del arte y las humanidades en el contexto de la crisis ecológica global. La obra se cierra con un artículo sobre la figura de Ignacio Meco, artista que en su obra aunaba arte y conservación del medio y que tuvo su casa taller en la Zona de Protección de Las Tablas

Environmental sustainability of alternative marine propulsion technologies powered by hydrogen - a life cycle assessment approach

Shipping is a very important source of pollution worldwide. In recent years, numerous actions and measures have been developed trying to reduce the levels of greenhouse gases (GHG) from the marine exhaust emissions in the fight against climate change, boosting the Sustainable Development Goal 13. Following this target, the action of hydrogen as energy vector makes it a suitable alternative to be used as fuel, constituting a very promising energy carrier for energy transition and decarbonization in maritime transport. The objective of this study is to develop an ex-ante environmental evaluation of two promising technologies for vessels propulsion, a H2 Polymeric Electrolytic Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC), and a H2 Internal Combustion Engine (ICE), in order to determine their viability and eligibility compared to the traditional one, a diesel ICE. The applied methodology follows the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) guidelines, considering a functional unit of 1 kWh of energy produced. LCA results reveal that both alternatives have great potential to promote the energy transition, particularly the H2 ICE. However, as technologies readiness level is quite low, it was concluded that the assessment has been conducted at a very early stage, so their sustainability and environmental performance may change as they become more widely developed and deployed, which can be only achieved with political and stakeholder's involvement and collaboration.This work was supported by the European Union through the Project HYLANTIC EAPA_204/201; “The Atlantic Network for Renewable Generation and Supply of Hydrogen to promote High Energy Efficiency”

Artistas sobre outras obras

Nunca como agora se conviveu com tanta invisibilidade: as imagens são hegemónicas, omnipresentes, e por isso invisíveis. Já não são dramáticas, são virais. São baratas, pervasivas, instantâneas. Aceites no seu valor micro, as imagens são monetizada, transformadas em liquidez. As imagens, cada vez mais visíveis, são por isso invisíveis. De certo modo poderemos acompanhar estas perplexidades na presente edição, onde os artistas são desafiados à visibilidade, através dos artigos aqui reunidos.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Comprehensive description of clinical characteristics of a large systemic Lupus Erythematosus Cohort from the Spanish Rheumatology Society Lupus Registry (RELESSER) with emphasis on complete versus incomplete lupus differences

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease characterized by multiple organ involvement and pronounced racial and ethnic heterogeneity. The aims of the present work were (1) to describe the cumulative clinical characteristics of those patients included in the Spanish Rheumatology Society SLE Registry (RELESSER), focusing on the differences between patients who fulfilled the 1997 ACR-SLE criteria versus those with less than 4 criteria (hereafter designated as incomplete SLE (iSLE)) and (2) to compare SLE patient characteristics with those documented in other multicentric SLE registries. RELESSER is a multicenter hospital-based registry, with a collection of data from a large, representative sample of adult patients with SLE (1997 ACR criteria) seen at Spanish rheumatology departments. The registry includes demographic data, comprehensive descriptions of clinical manifestations, as well as information about disease activity and severity, cumulative damage, comorbidities, treatments and mortality, using variables with highly standardized definitions. A total of 4.024 SLE patients (91% with ≥4 ACR criteria) were included. Ninety percent were women with a mean age at diagnosis of 35.4 years and a median duration of disease of 11.0 years. As expected, most SLE manifestations were more frequent in SLE patients than in iSLE ones and every one of the ACR criteria was also associated with SLE condition; this was particularly true of malar rash, oral ulcers and renal disorder. The analysis-adjusted by gender, age at diagnosis, and disease duration-revealed that higher disease activity, damage and SLE severity index are associated with SLE [OR: 1.14; 95% CI: 1.08-1.20 (P < 0.001); 1.29; 95% CI: 1.15-1.44 (P < 0.001); and 2.10; 95% CI: 1.83-2.42 (P < 0.001), respectively]. These results support the hypothesis that iSLE behaves as a relative stable and mild disease. SLE patients from the RELESSER register do not appear to differ substantially from other Caucasian populations and although activity [median SELENA-SLEDA: 2 (IQ: 0-4)], damage [median SLICC/ACR/DI: 1 (IQ: 0-2)], and severity [median KATZ index: 2 (IQ: 1-3)] scores were low, 1 of every 4 deaths was due to SLE activity. RELESSER represents the largest European SLE registry established to date, providing comprehensive, reliable and updated information on SLE in the southern European population

Diagnosis delay and follow-up strategies in colorectal cancer. Prognosis implications: a study protocol

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Controversy exists with regard to the impact that the different components of diagnosis delay may have on the degree of invasion and prognosis in patients with colorectal cancer. The follow-up strategies after treatment also vary considerably. The aims of this study are: a) to determine if the symptoms-to-diagnosis interval and the treatment delay modify the survival of patients with colorectal cancer, and b) to determine if different follow-up strategies are associated with a higher survival rate.</p> <p>Methods/Design</p> <p>Multi-centre study with prospective follow-up in five regions in Spain (Galicia, Balearic Islands, Catalonia, Aragón and Valencia) during the period 2010-2012. Incident cases are included with anatomopathological confirmation of colorectal cancer (International Classification of Diseases 9th revision codes 153-154) that formed a part of a previous study (n = 953).</p> <p>At the time of diagnosis, each patient was given a structured interview. Their clinical records will be reviewed during the follow-up period in order to obtain information on the explorations and tests carried out after treatment, and the progress of these patients.</p> <p>Symptoms-to-diagnosis interval is defined as the time calculated from the diagnosis of cancer and the first symptoms attributed to cancer. Treatment delay is defined as the time elapsed between diagnosis and treatment. In non-metastatic patients treated with curative intention, information will be obtained during the follow-up period on consultations performed in the digestive, surgery and oncology departments, as well as the endoscopies, tumour markers and imaging procedures carried out.</p> <p>Local recurrence, development of metastases in the follow-up, appearance of a new tumour and mortality will be included as outcome variables.</p> <p>Actuarial survival analysis with Kaplan-Meier curves, Cox regression and competitive risk survival analysis will be performed.</p> <p>Discussion</p> <p>This study will make it possible to verify if the different components of delay have an impact on survival rate in colon cancer and rectal cancer. In consequence, this multi-centre study will be able to detect the variability present in the follow-up of patients with colorectal cancer, and if this variability modifies the prognosis. Ideally, this study could determine which follow-up strategies are associated with a better prognosis in colorectal cancer.</p

Cross-disease Meta-analysis of Genome-wide Association Studies for Systemic Sclerosis and Rheumatoid Arthritis Reveals IRF4 as a New Common Susceptibility Locus

Objectives: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are autoimmune diseases that share clinical and immunological characteristics. To date, several shared SSc- RA loci have been identified independently. In this study, we aimed to systematically search for new common SSc-RA loci through an inter-disease meta-GWAS strategy. Methods: We performed a meta-analysis combining GWAS datasets of SSc and RA using a strategy that allowed identification of loci with both same-direction and opposingdirection allelic effects. The top single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were followed-up in independent SSc and RA case-control cohorts. This allowed us to increase the sample size to a total of 8,830 SSc patients, 16,870 RA patients and 43,393 controls. Results: The cross-disease meta-analysis of the GWAS datasets identified several loci with nominal association signals (P-value < 5 x 10-6), which also showed evidence of association in the disease-specific GWAS scan. These loci included several genomic regions not previously reported as shared loci, besides risk factors associated with both diseases in previous studies. The follow-up of the putatively new SSc-RA loci identified IRF4 as a shared risk factor for these two diseases (Pcombined = 3.29 x 10-12). In addition, the analysis of the biological relevance of the known SSc-RA shared loci pointed to the type I interferon and the interleukin 12 signaling pathways as the main common etiopathogenic factors. Conclusions: Our study has identified a novel shared locus, IRF4, for SSc and RA and highlighted the usefulness of cross-disease GWAS meta-analysis in the identification of common risk loci

Complement component C4 structural variation and quantitative traits contribute to sex-biased vulnerability in systemic sclerosis

Altres ajuts: Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER), "A way of making Europe".Copy number (CN) polymorphisms of complement C4 play distinct roles in many conditions, including immune-mediated diseases. We investigated the association of C4 CN with systemic sclerosis (SSc) risk. Imputed total C4, C4A, C4B, and HERV-K CN were analyzed in 26,633 individuals and validated in an independent cohort. Our results showed that higher C4 CN confers protection to SSc, and deviations from CN parity of C4A and C4B augmented risk. The protection contributed per copy of C4A and C4B differed by sex. Stronger protection was afforded by C4A in men and by C4B in women. C4 CN correlated well with its gene expression and serum protein levels, and less C4 was detected for both in SSc patients. Conditioned analysis suggests that C4 genetics strongly contributes to the SSc association within the major histocompatibility complex locus and highlights classical alleles and amino acid variants of HLA-DRB1 and HLA-DPB1 as C4-independent signals