BOMB 111/Spring 2010
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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.
A pioneer of New Argentine Cinema, Martel is responsible for three startlingly intense feature films. Her newest, The Headless Woman, brims with the paranoia of a woman who can’t remember her crime.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Outtake! This is the continuation of the conversation between Adrián Dárgelos and Laureana Toledo which appears in issue 106.
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 an excerpt from the novel My Two Worlds. 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.