BOMB 119/Spring 2012
Painter Guillermo Kuitca has shown his work the world over, but his practice is deeply embedded in Buenos Aires. He speaks with artist Mathias Duville about provocation, his winter of discontent, and a nomadism of the mind.
Buenos Aires–based visual artist Jorge Macchi’s experimentation with theatrical forms, music, and fiction feed the ephemeral and accidental substance of his artworks. He was interviewed by composer and frequent collaborator Edgardo Rudnitzky.
In Chile and beyond, Guilisasti is known as both artist and co-founder of INCUBO. A proponent of the precarious, her recent work links Judd’s structures in Marfa to the Chilean phenomenon of short-term yet recurring summer beach squats.
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Cristina Peri Rossi fled Uruguay after its military kidnapped a dissident student staying at her apartment. The only woman associated with the Latin American Boom, Peri Rossi spoke with fellow novelist Carmen Boullosa from Barcelona.
En Español El novelista argentino es una figura de culto con más de 60 libros publicados. La cronista María Moreno nos da acceso a una figura de culto que raras veces concede entrevistas.
A prolific Argentine novelist with a cult following and over 60 published books under his belt, Aira rarely grants interviews. María Moreno presents a privileged glimpse of the writer.
The most radical living nonagenarian, Chilean Nicanor Parra has been practicing antipoetry for over half a century. In this essay poet Raúl Zurita releases the detonating force of Parra’s classic text/image artifacts.
Lucrecia Martel is the first Latin American—and the first woman—director to be the subject of the “Tribute to” program at this summer’s Sarajevo Film Festival. A pioneer of New Argentine Cinema, Martel spoke to Haden Guest in 2009.
En Español! La pionera del nuevo cine argentino ha dirigido tres películas igualmente perturbadoras e intensas. En La Mujer Sin Cabeza se desborda la paranoia de una mujer que no sabe si cometió o no un crimen.
Adrián Dárgelos, front man of Babasónicos, speaks of how the band went from being the hobby of a group of déclassé, unemployed, college graduates to one of Argentina’s most enduring bands.
A Chilean architect of Croatian descent, Radic talks with the Mexican architect José Castillo about his uniquely surreal dwellings, elemental installations, and the benefits of maintaining an immigrant’s approach to seeing the world.
En Español El arquitecto chileno, de origen croata, habla con José Castillo sobre la precariedad de sus materiales, la relación de sus proyectos con el arte y la literatura, y los beneficios de mantener la perspectiva de inmigrante.
Alejandro Cesarco works brazenly in a tradition, the aesthetic confines of classic conceptual art. In his work, text prevails over image—replacing it or transforming it.
Andrew Moszynski on why optimism is at the heart of the socioeconomic statements Fernanda Laguna makes with her paintings, drawings, poems and plays.
Emma Wilcox on how Sebastián Patané Masuelli’s immigration from Argentina to New Jersey and the adventure of learning English inspire his ambitious installations.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from the novel My Two Worlds, used with permission by the publisher, Open Letter Books.
This First Proof contains the story Ay. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Merry-Go-Round”, “Undermining the Wall”, “Chapter”, and “The Word”. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poem “1973”, and three poems from Cities of Water. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “My LIfe as a Man: An Intimate Diary”. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This first proof contains the poems “Héctor Figueroa Watching the Stars”, “With Your Own Eyes”, & “With a Beach Chair He Strolls through the Fog Chasing a Nonexistent Sun”. For copyright reasons this content is only available in print.
This First Proof contains the poems “Blackness Ascendant”, “Rectification of Death”, & “Sound of Death around the Neighborhood”. For copyright reasons this content is only available in print.
This First Proof contains the poem “Ut Pictura Poesis”. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains a short story, titled “Venice Without Me (Piazza San Marco)”. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
