BOMB 119/Spring 2012
Architect Aldrete-Haas explores Gerzso’s intuitive world. Of Eastern European and Mexican citizenry, Gerzso embraced Surrealism as well as pre-Columbian art. This intimate and moving portrait of the painter is the last recorded dialogue before his death.
Pedro Meyer’s photographs of his family, friends, and cultural icons reveal the inner lives of their subjects. His use of new technologies makes these private worlds available to a worldwide audience. Artist George Mead Moore speaks with the photographer.
Sergio Vega’s alter ego, his parrot/Dante of the New World, takes us on a metaphysical tour of paradise. Fellow artist and Argentinean Nicolás Guagnini covers a pastiche of issues, from crocodiles and utopia to notions of a postcolonial Garden of Eden.
Brazillian artists Vik Muniz and Valeska Soares both live in New York. They discuss the permeability of borders; the resilience of memory and various architectural forms—the maze, the garden and the folly—as metaphors for desire.
A legend in his own time and revered by Latin American writers everywhere, Alvaro Mutis has published seven award-winning novellas featuring “the enigmatic, essentially learned, eternally transient, seaman-adventurer Maqroll.”
Boullosa’s characters range throughout Mexican history; like children, they are foreigners in a strange world. In research that covers volumes of royal decrees, 17th century Spanish novels, diaries and encyclopedias, Boullosa eavesdrops on history.
Diamela Eltit’s fiction is internationally respected as challenging and singular work. Eltit was one of Chile’s most important literary figures during Pinochet’s rule, and she writes in a sharp and inventive prose that rebukes all stereotypes.
Poet and novelist Gioconda Belli’s works tell of Nicaragua’s social and political struggles—a subject she knows well, having joined the Sandinista Revolution in its infancy.
A 15-piece orchestra of all-star Cuban musicians, ¡Cubanismo! celebrates the legacy of Cuban dance music—from traditional rumba and cha-cha to son and danzón. Band leader Jesús Alemañy once played trumpet for Cuba’s most famous son group, Sierra Maestra.
One of the most popular singers in Brazil, Marisa Monte’s priority has always been on vocal performance for her audience. Musician Arto Lindsay, responsible for bringing her artistry here, speaks with the pop star.
In his paintings and prints, Enrique Chagoya has created a universe where Mexican and U.S. culture combine with surprising results. Robin Greeley reflects on one of Chagoya’s pieces and the characters that inhabit it.
Since 1996, Venezuelan conceptual sculptor José Gabriel Fernández has been exploring the bullfight and its performative star, the matador.
Carolina Ponce de León reflects on María Teresa Hinacapié’s spiritual and political performance art accompanied by five photographs of some performances.
José Antonio Rodríguez Ramírez examines the work of Pia Elizondo as one of the leading examples of the shift in ’90s Mexican photography. Her shadowy images opened the door to personal, rather than Nationalistic, narrative.
A text on Yoshua Okon by Mónica de la Torre, accompanied by photographs from his video installation Orillese a la Orilla.
This First Proof contains the story “At Work All Summer.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “Business for the Millennium.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “Claustrophobic Me.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “Crying on the Banks of the Mapocho River.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poem “Rock Bolero in Collage by Rocky and the Rockers.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the prose poem “Scenarios” from Quadernas, Quaderas, Quaderas, part five of the collection La Colisión. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “The Founding of Rome.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “The Other Book.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “The Spy.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Sea of Multiplications,” “Hotel King III,” and “In the Yugo Bar, Cipango.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from the poem “To Cross This Distance.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “One Night,” and “Tropical Landscape.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Walking Dream,” and “Fragrant Arms.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “The Things I Say Are True,” and “Family Secret.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Safe Place,” and “Songs to Berenice, II.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
