I oftentimes frequent the last pages of books to only meet their last word —that definitive detail we dare to forget. The word that conceals secrets about the book, the story, or the writer, while we pass by and shelve. Inversely, the delicacy of this front, its arrangement, the typography, and the mastery of the author, deserves to delay the usual affair to the ordered time and place.
This is it. The verge of this 2019, the brink of a decade, and the conclusion of a century from the founding of one of the most significant schools of Design. The Bauhaus has proven to be inspiringly contagious in length and in varied fields. Design came into being in 1919… Bruno Munari Many were the events, festivals, and exhibitions this year that honored its importance in Western culture. And we wanted to leave yet […]
I work for a long time, sometimes years, on the same canvas. But all this time, there are periods, sometimes quite long, when I’m not doing anything with it. The important thing for me is that its point of departure –the shock that determined it– must be felt. Things come slowly. My vocabulary of forms, for example –I didn’t discover it all at once. It formed it self almost in spite of me. Things follow […]