The Crossing of the Ebro. Run, Silver-Blue
Teresa Lanceta —recipient of the 2023 National Prize for Visual Arts— presents this work in book format, where her personal experience converges with collective memory...
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Concreta publishes artists’ books conceived by creators such as Moyra Davey, Carla Zaccagnini, Lola Lasurt, Lorenzo Sandoval, Carla Filipe, Inmaculada Salinas and Isaías Griñolo, in collaboration with designers such as Filiep Tacq and Jaume Marco.
Muros de viento. Sarcófagos cristalinos
In Muros de viento. Sarcófagos cristalinos, the author proposes to review these two phenomena as opposite symptoms of a new conception of space that was implemented at that time and that continues to operate today more than ever. However, the publication is not a conclusion to this question, but offers possibilities for connections through a selection of displaced images and fragmented texts. These materials are organised in such a way that it is precisely in the rhythm, pauses or silences between images and texts that María García Ruiz invites us to look for hypotheses.
Recuerdo de Sevilla
The work of Inmaculada Salinas (Guadalcanal, Seville, 1967) revolves around "the feminine", understood as a social subject, which she places in a position that is not usually found, in which everything revolves around her. Salinas analyzes how this concept has been portrayed and transmitted throughout history through different systems of visual representation. In Remembrance of Seville—an investigation that began in 2014—the artist analyzes the social mechanisms that contribute to the invisibility of women through a rereading of the iconography of Seville and its 162 streets labeled with women's names.
Greetings from the USA – Saludos desde España
Greetings from the USA - Saludos desde España (julio 2023) es una publicación de Cristina Arribas que trata sobre la penetración de la modernidad americana como modelo de «modernidad española». Designed by Filiep Tacq and with an exchange of letters with Juan José Lahuerta, this visual essay presents the impudence and self-confidence with which Spain copies what is American from the prism of postcards. La visión conjunta de una tarjeta postal americana del Arco Gateway de Saint Louis (Misuri) junto a una española del arco de acceso a Torreblanca del Sol, en Fuengirola, abrió a su autora un camino (una autopista) sin retorno, y aquí se muestra una parte.
Deep Song Rehearshal
Last March 2022, Lola Lasurt (Barcelona, 1983) presented Ensayo para Deep Song (Centro Federico García Lorca, Granada), an exhibition project in which the Catalan artist is based on the choreography Deep Song (1937) by the dancer Martha Graham , created in response to the still and moving images reaching North American audiences about the Spanish Civil War. Lasurt translates Graham's performative gesture into a pictorial act, without forgetting the relationship with the work of Federico García Lorca that inspired her title: Poema del cante jondo (1931). This bilingual publication (Spanish and English) reinforces Lasurt's investigative work in the contemporaneity of a historical event and its memory.
Libro que espera su edición
A book awaiting publication (January 2022), by Salomé Moltó and Floreal Rodríguez de la Paz, covers the construction process of the monument in the vicinity of the Albatera concentration camp, where thousands of people were held. This field was one of the hardest during Franco's regime. The importance of this document in book form (made in 1995 and edited in facsimile form under the care of Lorenzo Sandoval), on the one hand, comes from a time when historical memory was still approached in a timid way. On the other hand, the relevance of the publication is given by its inscription at a time in which there was a constant deconstruction of the logic of the monument from the sphere of art in the nineties.
I romance, II martinete, III debla and IV pregón
In these four volumes, artist Isaías Griñolo presents projects in which he relates memory, poetry, economy, ecology and other themes through the compilation and conglomeration of heterogeneous materials and sources. His work combines in a singular manner the political...
Quema los diarios
The work of the artist Moyra Davey (Toronto, 1958) has traditionally been associated with photography, film and video. However, her book Quema los diarios (November 2020) shows how literature and writing play a very significant role in her artistic production, which is increasingly close to publishing artists' books. The interweavings and resonances between her filmic works are manifested, on this occasion, in the form of quotations. This first edition in Spanish is based on the generous reflections...
Brasil, país do futuro
"Brazil, country of the future" is almost an axiom, an automatic statement, something like "Paris, the city of light" or "New York, the big apple"; derivations, perhaps, of the distinctions with which aristocrats were nicknamed: "Mary, the mad", "Ivan, the terrible", "Philip, the beautiful". On this occasion, Carla Zaccagnini proposes an investigation into the territory, natural resources and people of Brazil, based on the research of a series of publications such as the homonymous work...
Las calles habladas
A sound experiment in geolocalised narrative that is constructed in real time with information found on the Internet in relation to the streets we are walking along. The real city and its digital experience merge in a sonic drift that sometimes relates to the context and sometimes presents itself in a totally abstract form. This book collects the text generated by the app...
Timelines
The artist's book Timelines (April, 2014) by Lia Perjovschi shows a timeline developed through the juxtaposition of images and text that forms the subjective history of the world from the Lythic Age to the present day. In addition, a series of notes and keywords written by the artist narrate these events, revealing her particular vision of the world...
Esperpento
The artist's book Esperpento (November, 2014) was created by combining images of Spanish geography obtained from Google Earth and small fragments of dialogue from ‘Luces de Bohemia’ by Ramón María del Valle Inclán....
Boletim
Following the example of the French and English railway companies, the C.P. (Portuguese Company) promoted, between the 1910s and 1920s, the construction of buildings for housing and social facilities to support its employees and their families. In the first quarter of the 20th century, the Boneco neighbourhood...
Prensadas
'Press images are for me an inexhaustible source of material to work with in one way or another. Some time ago I realised that, almost unconsciously, I collected images that I grouped together in one of my folders without a specific subject...
