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LUSARDI, Giada. Mediation of Things. Índex [online]. 2024, n.17, pp.289-305. ISSN 2477-9199.  https://doi.org/10.26807/cav.v10i17.578.

In this exhibition, artist Xavier Patiño (Guayaquil, 1961) invites the viewer to enter his world of geometric objects representing the colors of major socialist revolutions. These creative tools are linked to education, abstracted from their everyday use: curvigraphs, rulers, levels, tape measures, squares, measuring tools placed in this gallery space to remind us of the transformative potential of art. However, it also highlights its complicated relationship with bureaucratic educational systems that measure and standardize everything, expressing results in success indices that legitimize them.

This text was written for the exhibition titled The Mediation of Things by Xavier Patiño, held in August and September 2023 at the +ARTE gallery in Quito. It was also presented in Cuenca (Ecuador) from December 2023 to February 2024 as part of the parallel exhibitions program of the XVI Cuenca Biennial.

Palabras clave : Xavier Patiño; Guayaquil; Art Ecuador; Abstraction; Artefactoría; Arts Education; ITAE; UARTES..

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