On Contemporary Art - Cesar Aira (ekphrasis series) book design People become the lively wallpaper

People become the lively wallpaper of the bustling city

Bert Teunissen has created a distinctive series of photographs while walking the streets of New York City and London

and Marcel Breuer

Brooklyn-born rappers and the work of Swiss novelists

the Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg and the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart

On Contemporary Art - Cesar Aira (ekphrasis series) book design People become the lively wallpaperTranslated into English for the first time, On Contemporary Art, a speech by the renowned novelist Csar Aira, was delivered at a 2010 colloquium in Madrid dedicated to bridging the gap between writing and the visual arts. On Airas dizzying and dazzling path, everything comes under questionfrom reproducibility of artworks to the value of the written word itself. moreIn the end, Aira leaves us stranded on the bridge between writing and art that he set