Oda a Eiffel
By: Carmen Parra ; poema, Salvador Elizondo ; fotografía, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio ; textos, Alain Le Gourrierec ... [and 3 others] ; traducción de textos, Marc Sagaert
Contributors: Ortiz Monasterio, Pablo, photographer; Le Gourrierec, Alain, author; Sagaert, Marc, translator; Elizondo, Salvador, 1932-2006; Museo Nacional de las Culturas (Mexico)
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Embajada de Francia en México; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Editorial RM; El Aire, Centro de Arte
Published: 2008
Place of publication: México, D.F
Language: spa
Number of pages: 75
ISBN-13: 9789689345237
Subjects: Tour Eiffel (Paris, France) in art; Tour Eiffel (Paris, France); Exhibitions
Description: In the mid-1970's artist Carmen Parra (b. Mexico 1944) was living in Paris. She bought her son a little fishbowl with a miniature Eiffel tower that inspired her and resulted in a large group of small-format drawings, engravings, and kakemonos (Japanese large scroll paintings) that represent her creative obsession with this particular Parisian landmark. Photographer Pablo Ortiz Monasterio (b. Mexico 1952) documented her urban interventions: a singular Ode to the Eiffel tower in which she unrolls her drawings for Ortiz Monasterio's camera in different sights around Paris, ending up across from the tower. Includes critical texts by Alain Le Gourrierec, Leonel Durán Solís, Roland Barthes and Dominique Legrand and the poem "La Graphosttique ou Ode a Eiffel" that Salvador Elizondo (b. Mexico 1932-2006) wrote in 1977.
Notes: Exhibition held at the Museo Nacional de las Culturas in 2007.

Text in Spanish and French.
Table of contents: title: Bitácora de una exposición / Carmen Parra; title: La Torre Eiffel de Carmen Parra / Alain Le Gourrierec; title: Oda a Eiffel en el Museo Nacional de las Culturas / Leonel Durán Solís; title: Sobre el arte de estar atento al movimiento de las cosas inmóviles y una manera distinta de dar cuenta / Dominique Legrand; title: La Torre Eiffel / Roland Barthes; title: Grafostática, u, Oda a Eiffel / Salvador Elizondo; title: La torre de papel / Pablo Ortiz Monasterio