{"title":"Rene Moncada","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"rene-i-am-the-best-artist-hardcover","title":"Rene I Am the Best Artist - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe life and art of Rene Moncada, otherwise known as The Best Artist, covering his early life, philosophy, major exhibitions and performances in both New York and Venezuela, as well as photographs of his art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 25 years as the owner of a gallery in New York City's SoHo, Rene, best known for a series of murals undertaken between 1979 to 2000 proclaiming I AM THE BEST ARTIST Rene, is also known as Nature's Ambassador. Rene receives messages from Nature in the form of inspiration and it is his duty as her Ambassador to translate those messages into a transcendental language that everyone can understand. That language is ART, and drawing is its written form. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough his fiber art, Rene created unique haute couture fashions. Called Nudismos because in Spanish the word to knot is nudo, Rene also ties wood and wire together into sculptural constructions and creates paintings using the same Nudismo design.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRene noticed a subliminal image embedded within the label of the Mott's apple juice can. The label, showing a detailed rendering of a halved apple, contained an obvious representation of a vulva. Rene painted a replica of the can and held an exhibition showcasing his Mott's painting. This event was written up in numerous magazines of the 80's. Soon thereafter, Mott's redesigned the label, covering the center of the apple. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRene regards the vulva as the purest image in nature and it is a regular part of his art. \"The shape is a basic structure, a universal image.\" Created to liberate art from the dictatorship of religion, his most provocative image, Sex and Violence, depicts a Christian cross with a vulva at its center. Rene has put together the creation of God to give life to his son with the creation of man to kill him, and asks the question, which is more sacred?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRene has created a series of sculptures by recycling Styrofoam, an ecological dilemma because it isn't biodegradable. Just as nature encapsulates toxic materials with vegetation, these sculptures are encapsulated with paper pulp and painted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a vocal opponent of censorship, hypocrisy and oppression, Rene dedicated his artistic career to bring about the respect women deserve, justifying his actions as a desire to liberate not only the art world but the world at large. It is this attribute that qualifies him as The Best Artist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51186056888543,"sku":"9780578918198","price":69.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/UzIbIL7dKv9780578918198.webp?v=1786377129"},{"product_id":"don-one-the-first-one-the-last-one-the-only-one-saga-of-an-estrogen-addict-and-the-women-he-managed-to-debrief-paperback","title":"DON ONE The First One - The Last One - The Only One: Saga of an Estrogen Addict and the Women He Managed to Debrief - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a philosophical explanation that says every idea becomes a reality unless it is modified by another idea. Some will say that friends don't need an explanation and that enemies won't believe it anyway. But I know that rumors have the tendency to fester and eventually become the last known morsel of veracity. This is why I consider that the best way for me to enjoy writing this book is if I let the reader know how to enjoy it as well. All these stories have one thing in common: the opportunity to make them happen was there and it did not happen or happened because we let it happen, or not happen. Since this is heavily sexual material, some might think that I am trying to impress by telling stories that are nothing more than the wishful thinking of a conceded Venezuelan with a big head and an over-active imagination to match. The best way to read this book is to avoid finding contradictory statements. Do not try to determine if what I am telling you is the truth or is it fantasy. The word confusion comes to my mind and it should not enter yours when reading this series of extraordinary fibs. Yes, fibs. The women involved in this journey would not appreciate it if I told what had been confided in me, so I have given them fictitious names and changed some of the circumstances where it took place and when it happened. This is so that no one except the persons involved and me knows who they are. They are the only ones who know that what I am writing here is not really the way it happened, where it took place or under what circumstances. People have different recollections of past experiences. This makes me confident to tell my stories as I remember them, without fear of betraying anyone. Enjoy this book as a compendium of fantastic stories that indeed happened. Don't try to find contradictions because the dates, places and names have been altered to prevent anyone from dissecting it and come upon conclusions that would spoil the enjoyment one might get from reading a fictitious novel. Just read it like you read your Bible. Abstain from asking how Mary convinced Joseph that the child she was carrying, although not his, was not the product of adultery. Let's call this compendium of stories \u003cem\u003eRENE'S HOLEY BABBLE\u003c\/em\u003e. If you look for the holes in it, you will find them, I know. I put them there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51189109883103,"sku":"9781087914107","price":20.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/c3Xx0C_IZW9781087914107.webp?v=1786456301"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/rene-moncada.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}