Virginia Pérez-Ratton
Subtitle: travesía por un estrecho dudoso = transit through a doubtful strait
By: editores, Victor Hugo Acuña Ortega, Alexandra Ortiz Wallner, Dominique Ratton Pérez
Contributors: Acuña Ortega, Víctor H.; Ortiz Wallner, Alexandra; Ratton Pérez, Dominique
Publisher: TEOR/ética
Published: 2012
Place of publication: San José, Costa Rica
Language: spa
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9789968899338
Subjects: Women art dealers; History; Art museum directors
Other titles: Travesía por un estrecho dudoso; Transit through a doubtful strait
Description: Virginia Peŕez Ratton, founder in 1994 of the Museo de Arte y Disenõ (MADC), and of editorial TEOReT́ica, amongst other spaces of cultural promotion for the Central American and Caribbean regions, died in October of 2010. A few week later, historian Vićtor Hugo Acunã along with journalist Alexandra Ortiz Wallner from the online magazine "Istmo" conceived the idea of publishing online a dossier of writings from her closest collaborators, artists and intellectuals titled "Virginia Peŕez Ratton y Centroameŕica: arte, pensamiento y propuesta" (Istmo, No. 22, enero-junio 2011). Those writings comprise the present book, an editorial project made possible with the support of the Getty Foundation and the participation of Dominique Ratton Peŕez, daughter of the noted artist, art historian, art critic and curator. As part of the presentation of the book and the anniversary of TEOReT́ica, the new Library and Study Center Virginia Peŕez Ratton was inaugurated in the museum.
Notes: In Spanish and English.
Table of contents: title: Presentation / Dominique Ratton Pérez; title: Introduction / Alexandra Ortiz Wallner y Victor Hugo Acuña Ortega; title: I. VPR; title: Biography; title: Which Region? Pointing Towards a Doubtful Stratit / Virginia Pérez-Ratton; title: Acceptance Speech. Magón National Award. April 2010; title: II. Projections; title: Like Sharing a Journey / Santiago Olmo; title: Almost Nearly 400 North of the Morazán; title: Virginia Pérez-Ratton and the Reinvention of Central America; title: The Reconquest of the Image-Word / Pablo Hernández Hernández; title: III. Evocations / Rolando Castellón; title: Absence + Constancy = Memory / Priscilla Monge; title: Upee...! / Carlos Capelán; title: Virginia Pérez-Ratton / Gerardo Mosquera; title: Green Leaves / Joaquín Rodríguez del Paso; title: Three Versions of Vicky / Luis Chaves; title: Art + Thought + Ourselves from ourselves = VPR / Emilia Villegas; title: Meteoric Impact on Central American Art / Luis Fernando Quirós; title: About the Necessity of TEOR/éTica / Raúl Quintanilla Armijo; title: Vas in Virginia / Jurgen Ureña; title: Contemporary Art Activist / Rocio Fernández de Ulibarri; title: Contributions to the Notion of the Strait and the Doubtful / Rosina Cazali; title: IV. Taller la Tebaida; title: About VPR Practice; title: V. Anexo; title: A very brief life chronology of VPR; title: VPR Personal Exhibitions (selection); title: VPR Curatorial Work (selection); title: VPR Bibliography (selection); title: For Virginia Pérez -Ratton / Rodrigo Rey Rosa.