Description

Conceived by the artist himself, this book combines 70 drawings with texts, specially commissioned for the project, by Mexican novelist Mario Bellatín, French researcher, biologist, and glaciologist Bruno Jourdain, and geographer and biotechnology expert Elizabeth R. Johnson. Together, through their interwoven dialogues about reality, fiction, science, knowledge, and the power of artistic approaches, they express a subjective vision of our changing times.

Through his new series of drawings and watercolors, created between 2012 and 2017, Vajay portrays themes and motifs such as post-industrial landscapes, endangered natural spaces, and abandoned machines, as well as complex human, natural, and architectural structures. Some drawings are short stories to be deciphered, while others manage to show, in a single image, the complexity of our times and our future.

The authors invited to participate in the project offer narrative stories—the adventures of The Book Man, The Amazing Life of a Tiny Water Molecule H218O, Under the Skin of the Earth: Stories of Life and War— that expand and complement the drawings, thanks to time travel, alternative realities, and unsettling futuristic tales.

Authors
Sigismond de Vajay
Mario Bellatín
Elizabeth R. Johnson
Bruno Jourdain

Technical specifications
Edited by: KBB
Year: 2018
Type: Book
Binding: Semi-flexible
Dimensions: 26 x 19 cm
Weight: 1 kg
Language: Multilingual - Spanish / French / English
Pages: 216
ISBN: 978-3-03764-514-7