ArtsLibris
Barcelona -2023

1:30 p.m. Inaugural Talk of the Speakers’ Corner, Emmanuel Guigon and Carmen Calvo. Presentation of the Museu Picasso publication on the occasion of the anthological exhibition of the Valencian artist, open to this museum until September.

15:30 Performative presentation: Ramón Ollé, “el brillo “oculto de lo ignoto.” Placido Romero. Amagats

4:00 p.m. Presentation of The Okama Paradox, by Ediciones Anómalas. Ismael Ariño and Clara Gasull. Through drawings and photographs, both artists collect the experiences of a trip to Japan, thus reflecting on the meaning of travel, mobility and displacement. 

5:00 p.m. Talk. Santi Moix and Natalia Chocarro. On the occasion of the catalog published for the Santi Moix exhibition at the Fundación Vila Casas, the artist reflects with Chocarro on her relationship with her books.

6:00 p.m. Presentation of HeghDI’ vem ghaH, tu’lu’ Dinosaur. Joan Fontcuberta and Sonia Berger. Based on a short story by Augusto Monterroso, Fontcuberta creates a narrative fiction that reflects his interest in the conflicts between nature and photography, edited by Dalpine.

7:00 p.m. Presentation of “El Balcó Invers”. Dionis Scorsa / Manel Margallef. Scorsa, author of “El Balcó Invers”, talks with Margafell about this book created in confinement and published by the Museum of Modern Art of Tarragona

11:30 a.m. Performative presentation. “El libro de las cosas que ocurren, la gran obra del desentrañador impávido” / Plácido Romero. Editorial Escondidos

12:00 pm Ecocidis performative presentation. Un poema envenenado. Dionisio Cañas / Alex Gifreu. Ecocides. Un poema envenenado is a reflection on the supposed advances in agriculture and its consequences for the environment.

1:00 p.m. Presentation of “Deseado Mercadal”. Defeat, exile and torment in North Africa. Inma Prieto and Daniel G. Andujar. This publication, framed in Andújar’s project titled Letter of Marque, curated by Imma Prieto, reflects on the Mediterranean as a place far removed from any utopian image.

2:00 p.m. Presentation of The Boss is here, by Rafa Arocha. Tony Amengual / Rafa Arocha. The Boss is here is a reflection on control systems through the analysis of body language. The book is detachable and each cover is unique and handmade.

3:00 p.m. Presentation of the latest books from La Granja Editorial. The illustrated album, the comic, the artist’s books, the illustrated poetry, the graphic design and the fanzines are part of the catalog of this editorial formed by Lucía Ferreira and Álvaro Varograff.

4:00 p.m. Presentation of “Diagramando la Modernidad”. Edited by La Bahía and Editorial RM. Angela Molina and Ramón Reverté. Conversation about this book which offers for the first time a broad overview of the illustrated book in Latin America in the period 1920-1940, a stage characterized by the development and consolidation of its own modernities. 

6:00 p.m. Presentation of “Pintadas”. Gabriel Alberti and Manel Armengol. This book, edited by Ojos de Buey, collects more than 120 photographs taken in the street by Armengol during the late Franco regime and the Transition, key moments in the contemporary history of Spain.

7:00 p.m. Presentation of Wunderkammer. Suso Fandino and Santi Olmo. On the occasion of the exhibition that took place at the CGAC, Suso Fandiño talks with the director of the CGAC about El pabellón errante, a text written by the artist from Santiago for the exhibition catalogue.

8:30 p.m. Inauguration “Pintadas”. 1976-1979 in RocioSantaCruz In collaboration with the Ojos de Buey publishing house, RocioSantaCruz presents “Pintadas”. 1976-1979, individual exhibition by Manel Armengol (Badalona, 1949). In the exhibition, the photographer documents the graffiti in the street that flooded the walls of Spain during the Spanish transition, thus reflecting on the urban space as an ideological battlefield.

11:00 a.m. Sunday market. Presentation of “Cuadernos del Bongó Barcino”. Editorial project founded by the Cuban artists Mane Ferret and Eloy Enrique Valdés, residents of Barcelona, and Sigfredo Ariel, a Cuban writer and cartoonist. The Cuadernos del Bongó Bàrcino are made by hand with illustrations specially made for each of the volumes.

12:00 p.m. Sunday market. Multidisciplinary creations by Joan Vinuesa. Joan Vinuesa and Montse Ordonez. Painter, poet and singer-songwriter born in Barcelona, Vinuesa will present his literary and artistic work. Hand in hand with Montse Ordóñez, she will also talk about her relationship with the Sant Antoni Sunday Book Market.

1:00 p.m. Presentation of The Waiting Game. Txema Salvans. This project closes the trilogy The Waiting Game 2005-2022. The man’s relationship with the dog is the theme that serves to address the way in which man relates dystopically to his environment. The object of his work is the dog tied to the chain, to the walls or bars of factories, polygons, farms, properties

2:00 p.m. Presentation of Anarene, by Miquel Bastida. For eight years Bastida has photographed places in the United States that were once represented in the cinema and whose identity has remained unclear ever since.

3:30 p.m. Performative presentation: Ramón Ollé, The predictions of an anticipated / Plácido Romero

4:00 p.m. Presentation of the Eloi Gimeno award for the best Photobook. This year, for the second time, ArtsLibris together with the Foto Colectania Foundation, and in collaboration with the Friends of Eloi Gimeno Association, will award the Eloi Gimeno Award for the best Photobook in the presence of the attendees at the ArtsLibris Barcelona 2023 fair.

5:00 p.m. ArtsByblio Award Ceremony. E2 Editions, in collaboration with ArtsLibris, International Contemporary Publishing Fair. Announces the fifth artist’s book prize for schools nationwide.