Shrezade entre el Eufrates y el Tigris 2012
Luz Darriba, Belgium
| Luz Darriba, Brussels,
Belgium, 2012. The book tells a little personal history, which begins in the Rio de la Plata and ends between the Euphrates and Tigris, on a trip that change my worldview. Speaking of books is to speak of my life. I use a phrase in many works of Memoirs of Hadrian: "The first birth of place is one in we look for the first time with a look intelligent; my first homelands were the books". I made several monumental works with books, a wall with 659,000 books (Spain, 2000) or the intervention of the Puerta de Alcalá in Madrid with 80,000 books(2001). The idea of the book is to travel a little time in which the books have also suffered repression of dictatorships or totalitarian regimes, being burned or destroyed. Luz Darriba, multidisciplinary artist (1954, Montevideo, Uruguay). In 1969, moved to Buenos Aires, where she studied Fine Arts. BA in Visual Arts from the University of Buenos Aires. In 1990 she emigrated to Spain. She lives and works between Brussels and Spain and do urban interventions and conducting exhibitions in and outside the Spanish State. She has performed more than 250 exhibitions (Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Greece, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, United States, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Japan, Malaysia, Romania, Germany and Chile) fifty singles, won over fifty international awards and distinctions, made thirty macro urban interventions, most of them on the reporting and prevention of gender violence. 24 x 26 cm, paper and mixed techniques. www.luzdarriba.com |