Observatorio Institucional Alianza del Pacífico 2020

BILINGUAL ENGLISH/SPANISH EDITION This charming, gift-worthy 6 x 6-inch paperback presents a wide selection of beautifully tinted photographic postcards of and by Argentine cowboys, or gauchos, in the early 1900s. Often reproduced with stamps, postmarks and handwriting perfectly preserved, these fascinating relics depict life on the Argentine prairie with documentary candor as well as romantic aplomb. Here we find many photographs of the gauchos with their horses, at their ranches, playing their guitars and courting their wives. Cows are quartered, houses are raised, rivers forged and duels...

A cupid doll comes to life and offers romantic assistance to A.J., a teenage photographer suffering from unrequited love.

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...

Paluca de Perulapán nos hechiza con esta fascinante historieta llena de mucho patriotismo. En ella y a través de sus personajes se empalma en sí, la idiosincrasia de su pueblo. Elvis Arquímedes es el niño típico de cualquier poblado en su país, quien además de enfrentar una extrema pobreza, debe de sobrevivir la guerra civil que conlleva la pequeña nación centroamericana. Cuando joven, tiene la oportunidad de unirse al éxodo de los años ochenta, pero el amor a su abuela y endulzado por las amoríos de su joven edad, le llevan a dejar a un lado la inquietud de emigrar. Conlleva una ...