Title: Gómez
Description: Manuel Gómez Piñeiro (Vigo, Spain, 1900 - Buenos Aires 1985) was the photographer who portrayed modern Argentine architecture with the highest quality and amplitude, and in a unique way. But in this book, a condensation of characters and real events move between fictional connections in a kind of parallel reality. The Parador Ariston, on the southern cliffs of Mar del Plata, it is the only Bauhaus construction by Hungarian-born modernist architect and furniture designer Marcel Lajos Breuer in all of Latin America. Abandoned for half a century, it takes on a new life in Gustavo Diéguez's graphic novel, because there, in fiction, it is owned by famous writer, art critic and intellectual Victoria Ocampo. For its inauguration in 1955, she organizes a costume party. Marcel Breuer, one of the attendees, gets the original costumes from Schlemmer's Triadic Ballet. The only condition Breuer makes is that no photos should be taken. Victoria, to whom no one is going to order anything, hires Gomez to take photos incognito. What follows is a series of mysteries woven into a crime novel plot. The story that follows is the result, not yet legitimized, of the manuscript stories belonging to who in life defined himself as the custodian of almost all the legacy of photographer Manuel Gómez Piñeiro.ʺ (HKB Translation) --Page [11]
Subjects: Comic books, strips, Graphic novels, Modern Architecture, History, Social life and customs
Places: Argentina, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
People: Manuel Gomez Piñeiro (1900-1985), Marcel Breuer (1902-1981), Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979)
Time periods: 20th century