Osvaldo Romberg +/- 70, even
By: edited by Damien Bright & Cameron Hu.
Contributors: Bright, Damien, 1986-; Hu, Cameron, 1986-; Romberg, Osvaldo, 1938-
Publisher: Barrytown/Station Hill Press, 2008.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Barrytown, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781581771084
Subjects: Romberg, Osvaldo, -- 1938-
Genres: Art History; Critical Theory; Individual Artist
Other titles: Osvaldo Romberg plus/minus seventy, even
First sentence: It seems appropriate to begin with painting because painting is where it all started.
Description: Osvaldo Romberg is an Argentine artist living in the United States who has, over the past five decades, produced a consistently goading body of work that tackles questions of analysis, interpretation, and representation of art and art history. His own history of translocation—between Argentina, Israel, Europe, and the United States—and his firm commitment to family and teaching are mirrored by an art practice that persistently plays with questions of life, sex, death, and the complexities of language and mythology.

OSVALDO ROMBERG +/-70, EVEN assembles classic texts by Marcelin Pleynet, Jean- Michel Rabaté, Marjorie Welish, and others (including Romberg himself), and positions them alongside new interviews with the artist and fragmentary fictions written in conversation with his work. This volume also includes rare biographical materials, and provides a photographic survey of Romberg's work from the 1950s to the present.
Notes: Includes texts by and about the artist, interviews, and the photographic survey of his work.