Museums and archives are institutions designed to preserve the memory of a community. Joan Fontcuberta rummages through their collections to find photographic documents that have deteriorated over time and, paradoxically, "lost their memory."These fragile, ailing, amnesiac images are salvaged by a procedure that recalls the Zen technique of Kintsugi: a piece of broken pottery is not discarded, but repaired, a thread of gold marking the fracture line.
Emphasizing scars is a form of resilience, of acceptance of the vicissitudes of life. In Kintsugi, Joan Fontcuberta assembles a poetic and conceptual gathering of phantasmal images that evoke the passage of time, the recording of history, and the very substance of photography.
| ISBN: | 9788417975470 |
| Publication date: | 15th February 2021 |
| Author: | Joan Fontcuberta |
| Illustrator: | Joan Fontcuberta |
| Publisher: | Editorial RM an imprint of Editorial RM Mexico |
| Format: | Other book format |
| Pagination: | 92 pages |
| Genres: |
Individual artists, art monographs |
Museums and archives are institutions designed to preserve the memory of a community. Joan Fontcuberta rummages through their collections to find photographic documents that have deteriorated over time and, paradoxically, "lost their memory."These fragile, ailing, amnesiac images are salvaged by a procedure that recalls the Zen technique of Kintsugi: a piece of broken pottery is not discarded, but repaired, a thread of gold marking the fracture line.
Kintsugi features in the following genres: Individual artists, art monographs
Other book format. Not Available.
Kintsugi was written by Joan Fontcuberta and published by Editorial RM an imprint of Editorial RM Mexico
Kintsugi has 92 pages