ArtsLibris Madrid
2019

16.00 h

Ana Garcia-Pineda, together with the commissioner Martí Manen, presents Más máquinas y maquinaciones (More Machines and Machinations), a book in which the artist celebrates the most intimate and Dadaist day-to-day life, “writedrawing” about vital aspects of existence through a set of inventions centred in “third-degree disasters”.

17.00 h

Consonni presents its new publications together with Iván de la Nuez, author of Teoría de la retaguardia (Theory of the Rearguard) — an ironic manifesto that alludes to Peter Bürger’s Theory of the Vanguard— and to the artist Maider López, who has produced the intervention “Marcapáginas” (Bookmark) in the book Video Green by Chris Kraus. Olga Fernández López moderates the conversation.

16.00h

Unknown Photographers is a post-photographic project of the artist Andrés Galeano, based on montages of photos extracted from found photograph albums, which reflects the latent desire of every photograph to transcend the instant. The artist presents it in collaboration with the Portuguese commissioner Sérgio Fazenda.

16.00 h

To commemorate its fifth anniversary, Blueproject Foundation presents the special edition Still Blue, with some of the collaborators such as María Jacarilla, Anna Dot and Aurélien Le Genissel and the team of the foundation: Renato Della Poeta, Pedro Torres and Cristina López Morcuende.

17.00 h

In The (Invisible) Art of Documenting Art, published by Caniche Editorial, Cristina Garrido reflects the history, or at least one of the histories, of the “B side” of art: the (invisible) figure of the photographer who documents contemporary art.

18.00h

STET Livros & fotografias presents the book Ether/ um laboratório of fotografia e história, by Susana Lourenço Marques with preface by Horacio Fernández, dedicated to the gallery and publisher of photography that had the greatest impact on photographic culture in Portugal in the eighties and nineties. With the participation of the author, Horacio Fernández and Filipa Valladares.

16.00 h

The essay Disputas sobre lo contemporáneo. Spanish art between antifrancoism and postmodernism, by Juan Albarrán, opens the collection “Textos inevitables” (Unavoidable Texts) by Exit Editorial. It is presented by its author along with Rosa Olivares, Victor del Río and Patricia Mayayo.

17.00 h

The veteran collection of CRU artist books, directed by Alex Gifreu is now publishing its number 052. In this presentation, some of the artists and collaborators who have been involved with the project throughout its history will tell us the key points of this publishing project.

18.00 h

The Peruvian publisher Meier Ramirez presents the book De tiempo en tiempo un volcán estalla (From Time to Time a Volcano Explodes), by the photographer Gihan Tubbeh, in a conversation between the artist and the curator Jorge Villacorta.

12.00 h

“Niño de Elche” (Child of Elche) (Francisco Contreras Molina), Darío Corbeira (director of Brumaria) and Pedro José Mariblanca Corrales talk about the book Niño de Elche. The golpe que necesitábamos (Child of Elche. The Blow We Need), in which Mariblanca reflects on the work of the singer relating his music with philosophy and critical thought.

13.00 h

The presentation of the trilogy Absence on stage /escenarios de la ausencia, a selection of scenographs of Japanese noh theatre published by Photosai Art Editions, will be attended by the artist Darío Álvarez and Alfredo Mateos Paramio, publisher of Photosai.