We are pleased to present the Art Signal Magazine’s Issue 3. As we usually recommend, consider joining our Newsletter mailing list to be updated about new issue’s publications and Art Signal ongoings. Enjoy the reading!

• Nodes and Meetings: ‘MUSAC, reference point for a Museum of the Present’ by Elena Lafuente Alonso

• The Castile and León Museum of Contemporary Art, situated in the city of León, was founded in the year 2005, and its experimental character, along with the possible risks this implies, have been manifest from the very beginning. The museum’s goal, of being one of the driving forces with respect to contemporary art, has led to its claim to be a Museum of the Present, or the Museum of the XXI Century. …

• Special Interview: ‘An Interview with Karl Haendel (I)’ by Vagner M. Whitehead

• Los Angeles-based artist Karl Haendel works with large-scale graphite drawings that are shown in a variety of configurations in and around the gallery walls. The themes of his works, largely appropriated, include political commentary, personal narrative, and Modernist forms. Karl Haendel is represented by the Anna Helwing Gallery in Los Angeles and Harris Lieberman in New York City. …

• Files: ‘Matsui Fuyuko: Reclaiming and reaffirming the nihonga’, Text and Interview by Jorge Larrañaga

• Although it would sometimes appear to be the case, contemporary Japanese art is fortunately not as flat ‑neither in content nor execution– as the superflat sketches by Murakami. Over and above the manga style, there is a group of artists determined to recover traditional engraving and painting techniques and adapt them to the modern age in harmony with the traditional techniques which in the hands of ageing craftsmen and forgotten experts seemed condemned to oblivion. From among this group of young artists, Matsui Fuyuko is perhaps …

• New Media: ‘Hangar, The Spider’s Strategy’ by Pablo G. Polite

• Founded on the 20th of June 1997 by the AAVC (Catalonian Association of Visual Artists), from its very beginnings Hangar has constitutes a community of artists created by artists for artists. A cell active in the production of contemporary art which has been providing answers to the necessities generated by the environmental context of Barcelona, and by the changes which have arisen in the fields of creativity and cultural and artistic production. …

• The gesture in the work: ‘Landscape-Objects’ by Javier Hernando Carrasco

• The type of material and the creative processes involved do not determine final artistic quality; thus, something formed from the most impoverished, basic materials can radiate intense poetry, whilst another produced using recognised techniques and the highest quality materials can lack even the slightest whisper of art. It was in the twentieth century when pottery, in many cases, began to take on an artistic quality beyond the mere production of functional objects which had been its purpose for centuries, although its continuing association with the most typical form…

• Books and publications: ‘Jorge R. Pombo’

• This book bears witness to the intensive search for forms and sensations carried out by the young painter from Barcelona, Jorge R. Pombo, from 1998 to the present day. Written and compiled from a selection of dated notes (presumably from a more complete diary) organised into the various chapters into which the book is divided …