This bilingual publication collects twenty-two stories by invited artists and cultural practitioners in dialogue with the work of artist Isidoro Valcárcel Medina. Each story responds to one of eighteen photographs featuring Valcárcel Medina restaging actions previously performed in public spaces of different cities between 1965–93, this time in Madrid in 2011. Across 2012 these photographs were exhibited in a number of institutions under the title 18 Pictures and 18 Stories. At each exhibition three guests were invited to tell a story based on a photograph. During the telling of these stories Valcárcel Medina was available via phone to answer any questions the storyteller or audience might wish to ask. This publication hosts all the interpretations, facts, and fictions that were told, offering a spectrum of approaches to the work of Valcárcel Medina.
Contributors: Pierre Bal-Blanc, Koen Brams, José Díaz Cuyás, Juan Domínguez, Nuria Enguita Mayo, Jon Mikel Euba, Esther Ferrer, Dora García, GEACC – Grupo de Estudos em Arte Conceitual e Conceitualismos no Museu, Moosje Goosen, Isaías Griñolo, Myriam Van Imschoot, Miren Jaio, Manuel Martínez Ribas, Emilio Moreno, Aimar Pérez Galí, Esteban Pujals Gesalí, Pedro G. Romero, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Jaime Vallaure, Azucena Vieites, Carla Zaccagnini
Design: Filiep Tacq
ISBN: 978-90-814471-2-6
392 p, ills col & bw, 17×22 cm, pb, English/Spanish, 2013
€22.94
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