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The images of Pablo López Luz are sensitive to the tensions in the urban landscape, expressing the relationship of city dwellers to their environment and, in particular, to those tensions in which the collective memory is encrypted. This is the spirit that informs the artist’s photo essay about various buildings in the capital city constructed with volcanic stone, a material that evokes the massive forms of pre-Columbian architecture. The enormous metropolis, frequently shaken by seismic activity, is spread out under the gaze of Popocatéptl, over 5,000 meters high, and has itself encroached on the slopes of the Ajusco, a dormant volcano lying to the south.

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The second half of the nineteenth century is considered the golden age of children's literature. Is precisely at this moment that these two artist develop a great deal of illustrations for cheap books that were very fragile and ephemeral. The distinctive style of these artists conferred an unmistakable personality on that publications. With striking illustrations that for the first time are gathered and with constant reference to Mexican culture we find ourselves in a visual voyage on the highlights of Mexican Fairy Tales. Posada & Manilla: Illustrations for Mexican Fairy Tales is designed so the reader can feel how these little publications looked like. It includes a facsimile edition of one of the most beautiful booklets illustrated by Posada.

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On the occasion of the exhibition Cecilia Vicuña: Dreaming Water, Malba publishes in collaboration with the National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago de Chile and the Pinacoteca de São Paulo the most comprehensive monographic book dedicated to Cecilia Vicuña's work to date. It features a main text by curator and editor Miguel A. López in epistolary format a letter addressed to the artist as well as new essays by Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Catherine de Zegher, and José de Nordenflycht. It includes two texts by Vicuña on her drawings from the Palabrarmas project and the activism of the group Artists for Democracy, as well as a conversation between Vicuña, Marisol de la Cadena, and Camila Marambio.

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Ant Lea ventures out of the anthill for the first time with a group of companions in search of food, but what should have been a simple, routine mission turns into an odyssey.They are taken by surprise by an army of enemy ants, and in the chaos of battle, Lea gets lost in an unknown place. Alone and disoriented, she doesn't know how to return to the anthill. She finds herself wandering in a strange world that she must learn to inhabit and understand. It's time for Lea to grow up as an ant.

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The catalog “Julio Galán: A rabbit split in half ” is edited by the Tamayo Museum and published by Editorial RM. It not only documents the homonymous exhibition presented at the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, curated by Magalí Arriola, but also offers a new perspective on the artistic endeavors of Julio Galán (Múzquiz, 1959 - Monterrey, 2006). As there has been no comprehensive publication of Galán’s work in the past fifteen years, the outcome of this project is a book that re-contextualizes his paintings from a contemporary perspective.“Julio Galan: A Rabbit Split in Half ” will include the first biographical essay on Galán ever published, authored by Teresa Eckman, PhD; a curatorial essay by Magali Arriola, curator of the show and director of Museo Tamayo; and a glossary on Galan’s iconography penned by Mexican writer Pablo Soler Frost, compiling some of his most outstanding works, archive images, author photographs and contemporary photographs from the exhibition at the Tamayo Museum (2022).

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This much-anticipated publication will have an introductory text by well-known writer Masayo Nonaka, curator of the exhibition "Women Surrealists in Mexico" and author of numerous books on Mexican surrealism. Masayo's text will offer a unique insight into the life and work of Remedios Varo. Richly illustrated, the volume will present the painter's most important works. Through the forthcoming exhibition "In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States," to be held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 2012 and then at a venue in Canada, Remedios Varo's work will also gain exposure to a wider audience.

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An artistic and critical inquiry into a slew of 10-year-old unsolved murders in the Peruvian Amazon. In 2011, 14 indigenous Shawi healers were brutally murdered in the Peruvian Amazon, in a region called Balsapuerto. This publication is an investigation into these murders, featuring images by British documentary photographer Christo Geoghegan (born 1988) alongside original artwork, interviews, police records and other archival materials. SELLING POINTS: . A fascinating account of the brutal murders of Shawi healers in the Peruvian Amazon and the theories behind them. . Also offering an insight into the role of the “curandero” (healer) in remote communities. . The design of the book is highly original with an opening on both sides. 191 images

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Picasso and Miró revolutionized modern art in the early 20th century. Although trained in Barcelona, it was in Paris where both were consecrated as artists. Having said that, their painting and art have their roots in two unique places in southern Catalonia: Horta de Sant Joan and Mont-Roig del Camp. French photographer Jean Marie Del Moral, son of Spanish exiles during the Civil War, has never ceased to be fascinated by the work and figures of Picasso and Miró. A connoisseur of the places where both geniuses were inspired and worked, he affirms that in Horta and Mont-Roig, Picasso and Miró found nature and popular culture in its primitive state. Del Moral believes that both artists, although they painted differently, shared the same ideas about creation, art, life and nature. Hence, he believes that the roots of their art are alike and that the similarities between the Horta and Mont-Roig landscapes are very revealing. Through his lyrical and intimate photography, Del Moral creates an imaginary dialogue between the landscapes and places that inspired Picasso and Miró. He has a perceptive and poetic gaze, heir to that of the great masters of Catalan photography such as Joaquim Gomis and Francesc Català Roca and reminding us also of Paul Strand or Edward Weston images. Jean Marie Del Moral discovers a new Picasso and a new Miró, still original and unique but close in essence.

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Children’s Games is an ongoing archive of urban practices that modernization has excluded from everyday life, as the concept of public space is distorted by the domination of motor vehicles and electronic diversions.The children’s games that Alÿs captures constitute a threatened underground culture that unites generations and crosses borders.Their rules, images and references project a variety of concepts on time and the world and suggest an ancient, potent substrate underlying our shared experience; another reason why we should be concerned with their imminent disappearance.

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“Elegies” is a retrospective body of work bringing together a varied sample of the career of the artist Jorge Fuembuena, winner of the X edition of the Pilar Citoler International Prize for Contemporary Photography. The passage of time, death, innocence, the divine... there are many themes that intertwine in this body of work displayed and published by the University of Córdoba and Editorial RM. The exhibition and its catalogue are both planned as an experience; a visual game that the artist and curator Alejandro Castellote have been working on for some time. Jorge Fuembuena (Zaragoza, 1979), lives and works in Madrid. His work has received many awards such as the Pilar Citoler International Biennial Award for Contemporary Photography 2019, the Enaire Foundation award 2019, the IPA 2012 Competition (Lucie Foundation, NYC), the Caja Madrid Generations award 2011, the International Festival of Visual Arts Emergent 2010, the OCEMX Award 2011 (Mexico City), Gold Medal at the PX3 Prix 2012 (Paris, France) ARCO 2010 Photo Reportage Award and the Santa Isabel Portugal Photography Award 2008.

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Unveiling Jan Hendrix's graphic journey which spans almost half a century, offering a rich tapestry of maps and coordinates. Featuring essays by esteemed colleagues such as Estrella de Diego, Patricia Sloane, Olivier Debroise, and more, ATLAS not only showcases Hendrix's art but also provides profound insights from influential voices in his career, adding depth and context to the visual narrative. Tracing Hendrix's artistic evolution and global odyssey from rebellious beginnings in Holland, encounters with influential artists in Düsseldorf, collaborations with Francisco Toledo and Gunther Gerzso in Mexico, to his worldwide artistic exploration documented in Bitácora and Script. This book is a testament to his artistic legacy. Atlas/House presents a set of maps and coordinates to explore almost half a century of Jan Hendrix's multifaceted cartography; from his early years of training at the Jan van Eyck Academie, in his native Holland, to his most recent essays on shadows, the product o

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The book features a comprehensive interview between Ramirez and Gilles A. Tiberghien., richly illustrated with numerous images. Through this dialogue, they delve further into Ramirez''s body of work, his artistic vision and creative process.Enrique Ramírez''s work blends videos, photography, soundtracks, installations, and poetic narratives. He enjoys working with stories within stories, fiction that straddles different countries and time periods, the mirages arising from the gap between dream and reality. He often uses images and sound to develop intricate plots that strike a subtle balance between poetry and politics. His imaginary world of interwoven themes is anchored by one obsessively recurring element at the root of all his meditations: the sea as a place for memory in perpetual motion. He projects narratives in which Chile's fate intersects with epic accounts of faraway travels, conquests, and shifting migration tides. His sea-inspired images tell a bewildering tale of a foreve

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The series title “i”, is the sound /ai/ which is “I” in English and “love” in Japanese. In a glimpse of these photographs you are left feeling a sense of peace and serenity, a feeling of the good fortune of living in this world. “i” is Akiko's first book with an international distribution, edited with extreme quality in a limited edition of 1000 copies. 'Every time I look at my artworks, I’m provided with new ways of seeing them. It’s as if they are a mirror allowing me to encounter myself afresh each time. I like to think this allows my work to be re-born again and again whenever my photographs are experienced.With my work, I am happy when I feel there is nothing, but at the same time everything.' Akiko Kimura

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Could it be that our world is just a construction – a manufactured illusion? A few years ago, this existential discussion was limited to the academic world and science fiction. But things are changing. Bank of America recently issued a report to all of their customers in which they stated that the probability that we live in an artificial reality is between 20% and 50%.Tesla and founder, Elon Musk,believes that the chance that we do not live in a computer simulation is one in a billion. The Merge visually explores the question: Is it possible that our physical reality does not exist as we believe it to, but instead life is a computer simulation?

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In 1952, Cuban-Mexican designer Clara Porset organized Mexico’s first design exhibition, “El arte en la vida diaria. Objetos de buen diseño hechos en México” (Art in daily life - well-designed objects made in Mexico).That show, together with Porset’s ideas, marked a turning point in the trajectory of design in Mexico by aspiring the unification of local traditions and the dream of industrialization. This colourful book surveys the genealogy of artisans, promoters, entrepreneurs and designers who have contributed to the development of Mexican handcrafted designs for the better part of the last seventy years, staking their claims on a hybrid or mestizo form of material culture and furnishing modern life with a locally specific way of producing objects.

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Since the 1980s, Juan Travnik has been wandering through a ghostly Buenos Aires at dawn recording the blackness of the harsh urban and peripheral landscapes, empty of any human presence. Over the years, colour has become increasingly important. The moribund shades of his chromatic repertoire transmit his despondency in the face of the crisis that Argentina is currently going through. Everywhere, the changes to the walls and sidewalks, the splashes and stains here and there, the rust, the cracks and holes, the accumulation of plaster all transude a sombre anguish, bathing the city in a dismal light.

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Fashion photography occupies an unknown place, although of great importance, in Antoni Miralda's career.This book allows us to understand how influential his work was at that time. After settling in Paris, the artist began to collaborate regularly with ELLE magazine between 1964 and 1971, working on contemporary seasonal collections linked to the art world.Among the many reports carried out by Miralda for ELLE magazine there is one that stands out for the notoriety of the model who stars in it, the iconic Twiggy. Most images at the time showed models in studios, while Miralda took these models out into the street, into an uncodified and unpredictable space, requiring from the photographer and the team a decision-making process that was never entirely aprioristic. Faced with the Grand Paris of Haussmann or the Paris of museums and imposing cathedrals, Miralda prefers the blind points of historicist urbanism; popular, uncliched places with a great human density. No-Flash Fashion, with its contemporary design and its references to fashion magazines and archives, presents for the first time a detailed view of the undiscovered work of one of the most versatile and iconic artists of the twentieth century.

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This children's book turns around an association of images in which a droplet of poop appears as the principal element. This element is maintained through successive changes and adventures in the course of the book, forming part of a story whose different contexts change the droplet, even as the droplet modifies its surroundings.

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The monumental undertaking of sifting through an archive of over 8000 photographs was made and more than 300 photographs were selected, many of them unpublished until now. In 1973, Dutch photojournalist Chas Gerretsen spent nine months in Santiago, Chile. His historic photographs cover the last year of the Allende government and the violent military coup that led to the Pinochet regime. In 1974, Chas returned twice to Chile to record the changes in the country. Fifty years after the coup d'état in Chile, Gerretsen says, I hope for the images to become part of the historical and political memory of Chile, and that this book will serve as a reminder of the past and help future generations to avoid making the same mistakes.

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Witness Blanchard's artistic evolution from her early Cubist works to her later emotionally charged paintings, characterized by bold colors. The catalog offers a chronological journey through the different stages in the artistic life of the Spanish painter María Blanchard (Santander, 1881-1932). Its aim is to highlight the symbolic richness and innovative character inherent in her work during her short artistic career. A substantial body of her work was not adequately appreciated in the cultural context of that time, which believed in the artistic inferiority of women. Committed to her unique way of living and creating until the end, she transcended the boundaries of gender stereotypes. The vast repertoire of work she left behind, including maternity scenes, domestic scenes, children, and workers, reflects a heartfelt female concern for the vulnerability of the human condition and the evocative power of emotions. These aspects are reinforced by a meticulous technical mastery and a keen

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In 1624, Giovanni Battista Braccelli an artist from Florence, Italy created a series of imaginary characters composed of elements like clouds, diamond shaped tiles, chains and kitchen equipment. He gave these the title “Bizzarie”. Thanks to Covid and the lockdown, Alejandro Magallanes decided to compensate for the lack of social contact by creating fantastical people himself too. What was once called “Bizzarie” now becomes a search for human contact. An artist seldom knows how the public is going to react to his work. Magallanes gave poet Tedi López Mills space for creation, whereby she gave each of the characters personal attention and wrote her texts on the same page.

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Cristina de Middel has been travelling for years with migrants on the train they call the beast, interviewing sicarios (hired killers), talking for hours with coyotes (clandestine smugglers) and police officers. By combining her own photographs with objects found in the desert and archive footage, she creates a multi-layered narrative. The starting point is Tapachula, the Southern border of Mexico with Guatemala, and the journey ends in Felicity, a small town in California that is the officially Center of the World.This epic journey is punctuated by the accounts of three migrants recounting their terrible journey and commentary by the artist. An afterword by Mexican journalist, Pedro Anza, illuminates the issues at stake and the human consequences of the United States' obsession with closing its borders.

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Spanish photographer David Jimenez skillfully captures the essence of time, space, and emotion through his lens. Witness the overlay of historical past with the effects of material erosión where rocks transform into wisps of smoke and water takes on random forms to imitate solid objects. David Jimenez's work is part of numerous public and private collections, such as Fundación MAPFRE, the CA2M Art Center and the DKV Art Collection. In the ROMA project, the transformative power of time and its ability to generate new meanings becomes visible, evoked through fragmented and incomplete forms that create a fictional space of combinatorial nature. Space, both real and imagined, is treated as a stage for the traces of time.

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