El hombre árbol y la sangre pegada en las raíces

Um pequeno romance sobre os abismos entre familiares próximos e países vizinhos: as pontes que não construímos, os mal entendidos que vemos serem nutridos aos poucos, as memórias criadas, sublimadas ou dominadas pelas impressões. E aqueles reiterados silêncios. Como lembra Eduardo Halfon, "Hacer literatura es el arte de manipular el recuerdo" (Biblioteca Bizarra). Ania, filha única e órfã de mãe desde que era bem pequena, já não tão jovem e há muito deslocada na família, na profissão e nos relacionamentos, aceita representar seu pai e assistir um primo moribundo no interior...

The manuscripts were begun in Milan while Leonardo da Vinci was in the service of Ludovico Sforza. He continued the work during the last 25 years of the artist's life. The works were subsequently published in the collection and based on Leon Battista Alberti and Cennino Cennini. After Leonardo's death, those notebooks passed into the hands of his pupil and heir Francesco Melzi, and he published them later. It was a task of overwhelming difficulty due to its scope and Leonardo's idiosyncratic writing.

Light, words, and the ephemeral -that shifting condition of random- are concepts present in some form in the entire oeuvre of Chema Alvargonzalez (1960-2009), an artist who divided the two decades of his career between Barcelona and Berlin. Whereas Bruce Nauman and Dan Flavin are Alvargonzalez's direct sources in the way he configures the space through experimentation with lighting, Mallarmé serves as the basis of his linguistic approach to the practice of art. Alvargonzalez often accords words the status of objects which -rather than locking in a meaning- enables him to achieve a semantic...

Based on interviews with more than 850 people, this illustrated biography profiles the troubled life of the enigmatic avant-garde artist whose controversial work changed the definition of modern art