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Barraquitas is a Venezuelan fishing village on the shores of Lake Maracaibo marked by alarming poverty and genetic illness: the village is a major focus of Huntington's Disease.Venezuelan documentary photographer Vladimir Marcano (born 1971) captures the ravages of this neurodegenerative disease in an environment of appalling poverty.

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Verano de 1972, Julio Cortázar recibe en Saignon, las pruebas de galera del Libro de Manuel y decide corregirlas lejos de su casa. Durante unos días abandona la ciudad francesa y a bordo de Fafner, su querida camioneta Volkswagen, recorre la Provenza con la única compañía de unas latas de conserva, vino tinto y una máquina de escribir. El resultado de esta travesía singular es esta breve obra maestra, donde la meta más significativa no será el...

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This book, originally published in 1930, is a facsimile edition of the first monograph devoted to the great Mexican illustrator and engraver José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913). It reproduces more than 400 prints from Posada's vast production, collected by Pablo O'Higgins from those that could be located and identified at the time. The images of these high-spirited, at times macabre, broadsheets include the famous calaveras, or skeleton caricatu...

This catalogue book gathers for the first time the work of artist/inventor Ariel Guzik, focusing on the sound experiment he carried out for his project Cordiox: a monumental stringed instrument animated by invisible magnetic forces. The project, chosen to represent Mexico at the 55th Venice Biennial, is examined in this bilingual (Spanish/English) edition in an introductory essay by curator Itala Schmelz and texts by Osvaldo Sánchez, Karla Jas...

La segunda mitad del siglo XIX fue, como es bien sabido, una época dorada para la literatura infantil, tanto en México como en América del Norte y Europa. José Guadalupe Posada (1851-1913) y Manuel Manilla (1839-1895) son los dos principales íconos de la ilustración infantil en México, y juntos desarrollaron un enorme cuerpo de grabados e ilustraciones para colecciones baratas, efímeras y "penny press" de mexicanos. cuentos de hadas. A princip...

This book goes in search, by means of images and texts, of the Sandy family who seem to have lived in northern California between 1940 and 1960, a typical middle-class family of the time. At least that is the story told by the slides which, for some unknown reason, ended up being sold in a flea market.Daniela Franco decided to undertake a thorough study of the history of this family, calling on twelve writers who claimed to possess relevant in...

Draw" celebrates the basis of visual and graphic art: the drawing. It gathers the work of more than 200 artists from different parts of the world (with a special section devoted to Mexican artists selected by guest curator Miguel Calderon): Richard Serra, Ozzy Osbourne, R. Crumb, Neckface, Karen O, Raymond Pettibon, Jose Luis Sanchez Rull, Alejandro Magallanes, Melinda Beck, Rita Ponce de Leon, Tony Cox, Matt Damhave, Xiaoquing Ding, Iwan Effe...

This catalogue, based on the exhibition of the same name, gathers eighty fundamental works by more than forty outstanding Mexican artists of the early twentieth century. This was a period of great creativity, intense experimentation, and cultural exploration driven by the need to create an esthetic identity that would represent Mexico as a nation-state. Assembled over a period of thirty years of meticulous research, systematic work, and passio...

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Surveying Mexico's contemporary art scene between roughly 2000 and 2010, this book shows how artists living in Mexico City have stepped beyond the museum and gallery circuits and developed their own contexts for the dissemination of their work by repurposing the city's public spaces. These artists tend to emphasize relational dimensions, soliciting participation and dialogue in their audiences. Most of the works documented here are ephemeral, ...

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