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Issue 105 Fall 2008
THE BOMB BLAST
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Since 1996, Venezuelan conceptual sculptor José Gabriel Fernández has been exploring the bullfight and its performative star, the matador.
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