La paciencia es un campo minado
Subtitle: Amadeo Azar
By: [concepto : Amadeo Azar, Mara Caffarone ; edición : Jimena Fereiro ; textos : Alejandro Aguado [and others]]
Contributors: Ferreiro Pella, Jimena, editor; Aguado, Alejandro, writer of supplementary textual content; Azar, Amadeo, 1972-; Mecenazgo Cultural (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: [Publisher not identified]; [The author]
Published: 2021
Place of publication: [Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires]
Language: spa
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9789878817347
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Catalogs; Argentine Art; Installation (Art)
Other titles: Azar_
Description: Amadeo Azar is interested in the visual languages of modernism to the extent that they embody certain sets of beliefs and visions of the world and its future. He focuses on the architectural and avant-garde currents of the first half of the 20th century, exploring how they related to and influenced political and social movements in Latin America. At the same time, he explores how that utopian moment fell apart as it came up against local circumstances, leading them to fall into dystopia.  To carry out his works, Amadeo Azar chooses images of Russian Suprematism and Constructivism, works by local concrete avant-garde artists such as Gyula Kocise or Raúl Lozza, or architectural projects ranging from Francisco Salamone D'Anna to Konstantin Stepánovich Mélnikov. Through different languages (watercolors, collages, installations and objects), the artist intervenes works by artists who blindly believed in the transformative potential of art, given that they are attracted both by the convictions of their creators and by the failure of the great utopias materialized in paintings, sculptures or monuments that knew how to imagine a better, freer and fairer future.
Notes: Issued in right cover folded triptych-style

Errata slip inserted.

Includes bibliographical references.

In Spanish with English translations.
Table of contents: title: Un punk de salón = A parlor punk / Jimena Ferreira; title: Amadeo Azar: mas tarde, mas extraño / Lara Marmor; title: El viaje a la semilla / Alejandra Aguado; title: La violencia por Azar / Fabian Burgos; title: Biografía = Biography; title: Amadeo Azar: mas tarde, mas extraño [later, stranger] / Lara Marmor; title: Jorney back to the source / Alejandra Aguado; title: Violence by chance (Azar) / Fabian Burgos.