Moisés Rodríguez Cabrera; Rolando Estévez Jordán (illus.)
El Faro Encendido: Acercamiento a la Obra Visual de Rolando Estévez, 1857
Bellamar, Cuba: Ediciones El Fortín
One of 100 copies. Signed both by Cabrera and Estévez.
2775
Small quarto. (16)pp, bound at head. Reproductions of Estévez's expressionistic and surrealistic artwork punctuate this artist's statement on his output. As Cabrera's summation states, it was Estévez who visualized 'the...
Small quarto. (16)pp, bound at head. Reproductions of Estévez's expressionistic and surrealistic artwork punctuate this artist's statement on his output. As Cabrera's summation states, it was Estévez who visualized "the postmodern condition" for Cuban culture, "with all the transgressions and rebelliousness that this implies." Cabrera goes on the specify the political and social stakes: "This is an acid visual discourse. In each image [Estévez] takes on our world cultural patrimony, its symbols and false values, ironically satirizing them with conceptual acuity and almost always turning their stereotyped logic on its head." An especially strident remark, emblematic of Ediciones El Fortín's more experimental approach to bookmaking. Bound in hand-painted card covers with paper labels and yarn at binding. Mild rubs, else near fine.


