Ral Veroni ~ ArgentinaSpain |
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Little River Plate Theatre of Entities |
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Nada para el Destino 5.75 x .875"; 12 unnumbered pages with CD slipped in interior pocket of end page. Illustrated paper wraps, saddlestitched. Ral Veroni: "As part of his 12na collection project, publisher Guido Indij Nada para el Destino, text: "The 12na is a strange object. This 12na is "A few months later the resulting project: an original artistic vehicle produced by 3 pairs of hands...an unusual interdisciplinary dialogue...cool, unaffected but undeniably effective. Will the future bring other 12nas that combine images and music? Count yourself lucky to have this in your hands and ears at the same time!" |
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Sophie 22 x 21 cm with 120 pages laser printed on Transmarque paper of 110 gms. Housed in a portfolio box bound in gold paper with the title embossed in blue on the front. Made at the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England, Bristol. A deliberately disorienting combination of Lynn Ward and Julio Cortázar. This portfolio of Veroni's drawings, printed on transparent paper, chronicles a turbulent time in the artists' life (see his comments below). Textless. The format encourages reader/viewer interaction to construct meaning. The Colophon provides some hints. The comments below help even more. Veroni: "I like the idea that the viewer can play with the order and combination of the images. The concept of the book was that of playing with a number of multi-layered designs, gaining in depth and changing, in turn, with a series of suggestive-and not quite fixed-meanings. At the same time I wanted to keep a certain track of the original order I gave to the images. "The book was made in Bristol in 1998 after falling in love with a French girl called Sophie. I was captivated. I found it ironic that a woman with a name meaning wisdom could make me lose my head.... I couldn't sleep for many nights and the drawings I did during those days were my way to achieve some kind of catharsis. I put all together within the book: mixed reading of Greek myths along with the legend of Orpheus plus my own feelings and interpretations. No wonder ambiguity and confusion remains throughout its pages." |
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La Zarza Ardiendo 8.5 x 5.75"; 24 pages. Text handwritten by poet and then screenprinted on Conqueror Verge paper of 220 and 130 gsm. Images by Ral Veroni. Bound with colored cotton thread. Made at the studio in Pedro Goyena street in Buenos Aires. Text in Spanish. Numbered and signed by both writer and artist. Linda Neilson: "La Zarza Ardiendo/ The Burning Bramble was published by Veroni to celebrate 10 years of friendship with Argentine poet Marta Sabella. Despite Sabella's high quality of poetry this is the only publication of her work to date and she is almost unknown to Buenos Aires's literary magazines. Veroni´s intention behind the delicate edition of La Zarza Ardiendo was to assert Sabella's position as a writer." Marta Sabella, born in Buenos Aires, is a professor of art with a specialty in engraving. |
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Narcisismo y Emblema 6.25 x 9.75" oblong; 16 pages. Screenprinted on Conqueror Verge of 220 and 130 gms. Printed at the studio in Pedro Goyena Street, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Spanish text. Artist's statement: "An artists' book and catalogue of an exhibition that never took place. At the beginning of the 90´s Veroni was working intensely in painting, that genre that brings with it - more than any other media - issues involving insertion and acceptance in conventional artistic circuits. Aware of this dependence, Veroni decided to approach painting as a field for experimentation and reflection, whilst he carried on with his activities in public art projects through printmaking. "The book contains a series of reflections about the narcissism of a painter and the emblem that he chooses to represent himself. Through Ral Veroni's texts we can trace the origin of subsequent works, with their symbols inserted in the cityscape in similar way[s] that [were] used in his last series of paintings, graffitis, and lambda prints. The book narrates the 'encounter' with a street graffiti: a heart with crossed bones. The text describes the identification with the symbol, the making of a kite following the symbol's shape, its inaugural flight in the city, and the start of a series of paintings about this subject." |
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| Veroni uses his art to point out the struggles an artist faces with producing work and making it financially feasible. | |
The Lottery Project 6 x 10.25 x 1.25"; 64 pages. Bilingual in Spanish and English. Cover design by Ral Veroni and Cristian Turdera. Paper: Teton Tiara 118 gsm, Cromatico 100 and 200 gsm, and plastic sleeves. Each book in the edition contains 49 inkjet prints onto original, but unsuccessful, lottery tickets. The origin of the tickets differs in each book, making each unique within the edition. Veroni’s opening proclaims the plight of artists today and announces the subject of this book: the impossibility of making a living as an artist. Hence, the artist might as well play the lottery. At least the unsuccessful tickets can be put to the service of art: for Veroni, the tickets become paper for his sometimes playful, sometimes painfully serious inkjet prints. The book was begun in Buenos Aires in July of 2006 “thanks to a lucky stipend obtained by the numbers 14, 22, 36 and 40….The edition will be released and distributed gradually, as the artist plays the lottery and gathers enough tickets upon which to print and fill each of the books. In the eventuality that during this time the artist wins the lottery jackpot, he reserves the right to leave the edition uncompleted.” |
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La Princesa 10 x 14cm, 40 pages. Inkjet printed on digital paper of 170 gms. Protected by a dust-cover printed on photo paper. English version only. Signed & numbered by Veroni. This small book, with its structure of symbols, offers a good introduction to Veroni's digital artworks, made from 1999 onwards. It is also his return to producing poetry editions, as he had done in the eighties. |
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La Lucha por la Vida (Struggle for Life) This artist's book uses devalued paper currency, bills no longer in circulation, from many countries to illustrate our relationships with money. By drawing directly onto these bills, Veroni explores the role money plays in our lives, the power it exercises over us, and the strange way it dictates our circumstances. He examines a long personal and mytho-historical relationship with money in a text that is honest and insightful, pointed and poetic. |
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Struggle for Life (Reduced version) 4.5 x 6.5”; 14 pages. One original screenprint onto paper currency removed from circulation. Design and origin of the banknote differs in each book in form and content. Paper wraps. Reproduced images of the series of 30 banknotes from the original Lucha Por La Vida inkjet printed on Somerset Book 175 gm. paper. One original screen-printed banknote is in a plastic sleeve as the last page. Text is English only with a glossary of terms and introduction to the titles from Spanish. The original "Lucha por la Vida" used devalued paper currency, bills no longer in circulation, from many countries to illustrate our relationships with money. By drawing directly onto these bills, Veroni explored the role money plays in our lives, the power it exercises. Although prevailing wisdom taught that "to save is the way to riches," Veroni soon realized that the best way to invest money was to spend it. This edition is a smaller version of the original. Instead of the original 30 banknotes this includes only one original full sized currency piece. |
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Itinerario/Itinerary 16 x 22 cm, 24 pages. Numbered and signed. Both editions are typeset on Kawanaka and Zerkall Ingres paper with screenprinted covers on Fabriano Roma. Made at the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England. Written in 1997 during a 6 hour trip from Albuquerque to El Paso, Veroni outlines his disappointments and what he feels he has left to expect from art. The artist´s reflections relate to his years as a painter in Buenos Aires and to subsequent projects. |
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| An artist's view of place, power, and politics | |
Buenos Aires 13.5 x 17 cm, 52 pages. Ink-jet printed on 167 gm. Epson Matte paper. Bound as a postcard portfolio. Pages are held in an envelope which slips into the cover box. Contains a series of 22 digital photographs. Bilingual edition English-Spanish, with brief introduction and a three-part folded index page. "Buenos Aires" reflects on this city of immigrants and their daily struggle for survival. For this project, made during 2000 and 2001, Ral Veroni resorted to the strategy of the faneur: long walks around town with no predetermined aim, taking photographs and notes about the city, its architecture and its neighborhoods. The insertion of emblematic figures – representing time, destiny, desire – in the cityscape create a subtle mix of metaphors. These images not only refer to the ups and downs of human existence but also, depending on the landmarks where these symbols are placed, to the complex political and social problems of the country. |
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Glasgow 13.5 x 17 cm, 52 pages. A series of 22 digital photographs, ink-jet printed on Epson Matte 167 gm. paper. As with Buenos Aires -its twin edition- it is bound as a postcard portfolio, the pages are held by an envelope which slips into the cover box. Bilingual edition English Spanish, with a structure of symbols as introduction and a three-part folded page with poems by Ral Veroni. Signed & numbered by the artist. "Glasgow" is both a photographic compilation and an artist's book. Veroni has for this city a traveler's eye and he leaves the viewer with an open interpretation. One exception may be Monument to Existence. Here, the character stands on the cenotaph to the war dead, holding a two face weight. The rest of the images are wide allusions to the powers that carry us or menace us, such as Day of Bad Luck, or Time Thinks. These are combined with images of cityscapes that within this context, gain a certain kind of animism. |
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Ral Veroni: "Little River Plate Theatre of Entities is the name of a series of 200 works (100 plates & 100 poems) created by Ral Veroni in anticipation of Argentina's Bicentennial of the May Revolution on 25th May 2010. "The building of the country has occurred against a backdrop of 200 years of civil unrest, military conflicts and coup d'etats, the rise and fall of the gaucho (archetypal figure of the pampas), the destruction of indigenous communities, the disappearance of the African population through war and disease, a massive European and Asian immigration and the 'disappearance' of left wing activists under the dictatorship. "In Little River Plate Theatre of Entities 13 characters - including Absurdity, Time, Oblivion, Injustice and Fear - alternate as actors facing situations of conflict and complicity in a tragicomic play. The scenes draw on various sources: from creole surrealism to indigenous myth, and from the African-colonial carnival to the Latin epigram, without leaving aside philosophy, or the purely nonsensical. "13 artist's books in Spanish will be published, one a month, during the Bicentennial year." "Actors in the Little River Plate Theatre of Entities, and their costumes: |
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El Tamaño del Absurdo 5.5 x 8.25" (14 x21 cm); 42 pages. Laid in paperwrapper enclosed in a clear protective wrap. Edition of 50: 4 Fabriano Perusia; 6 C.M. Fabriano Ars; 6 P.M. Fabriano; 34 Beckett. Illustrated cover. Text in Spanish. Numbered and signed by Veroni. Ral Veroni: "The second volume in the series of prints and poems that together form the Little River Plate Theatre of Entities, created by Ral Veroni to accompany the official celebration of the bicentenary of the Argentine May Revolution. In an edition of 50: the first 4 printed on 70 year old Fabriano Perusia from the original workshop of Raoul Veroni senior (artist, editor and father of Ral Veroni). In 1943 Raoul Veroni senior realized his edition of Tres Recuerdos del Cielo by Rafael Alberti using this same paper. Of the remaining books, 6 have been printed on C.M. Fabriano Ars and 6 on PM Fabriano, both 50 years old and also from the original workshop. The edition has been completed with 34 books on 104 gm Beckett." El Tamaño del Absurdo contains ten poems, one print, and a vignette. $ 70 with Beckett paper |
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Hueso sueña con llegar a Nada 5.5 x 8.25" (14 x 21 cm); 24 pages. Laid in paperwrapper enclosed in a clear protective wrap. Edition of 50: 15 printed on Japanese Okawara paper; 35 on 118 gm Beckett paper. Illustrated cover printed in four colors with an Epson R1900. Text in Spanish. Numbered and signed by Veroni. Ral Veroni: "The first volume in the series of prints and poems that together form the Little River Plate Theatre of Entities, created by Ral Veroni to accompany the official celebration of the bicentenary of the Argentine May Revolution. The series is published under the editorial stamp of Urania, founded by Raoul Veroni (artist, editor, and father of Ral Veroni) in 1943. Each book in this special bibliophiles' edition of 50 has been prepared by hand by the artist. The first 15 are printed on 40 year old apanese Okawara paper from the original workshop of Raoul Veroni senior.The remaining 35 have been printed on 118 gm Beckett paper. This book contains three prints and five poems." ... Tocado por la obsesión, como una procesión de sí mismo, camina solo por el borde del Absurdo esperando siempre caer del otro lado. $170 with Japanese Okawara paper |
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| Ral Veroni Out of Print Title: • Jaguares y Cacatuas/Jaguars and Cockatoos • La Muestra Nómade |
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