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El eco de mis muertes
2012
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En una ronda de imágenes que amplifican el eco de la voz de Alejandra Pizarnik, Santiago Caruso interpreta visualmente la obra de la poeta argentina en un libro, que es también un talismán.
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Alejandra Pizarnik
Alejandra Pizarnik
Author · 27 books
Born in Buenos Aires to Russian parents who had fled Europe and the Nazi Holocaust, Alejandra Pizarnik was destined for literary greatness as well as an early death. She died from an ostensibly self-administered overdose of barbiturates on 25 September 1972. A few words scribbled on a slate that same month, reiterating her desire to go nowhere "but to the bottom," sum up her lifelong aspiration as a human being and as a writer. The compulsion to head for the "bottom" or "abyss" points to her desire to surrender to nothingness in an ultimate experience of ecstasy and poetic fulfillment in which life and art would be fused, albeit at her own risk. "Ojalá pudiera vivir solamente en éxtasis, haciendo el cuerpo del poema con mi cuerpo" (If I could only live in nothing but ecstasy, making the body of the poem with my body).
Santiago Caruso
Santiago Caruso
Author · 1 book

He cultivates a language of novel and personal rhetoric, although grounded in the symbolist aesthetics of the 19th century. Its production stands out as much for the discursive com- plexity as for the vigor of the technique. Dedicated to fantastique, his most important illustrated versions include: Jane Eyre (Folio Society); The Chants of Maldoror (Valdemar); The Dunwich Horror, The Bloody Countess, The Monk and the Hangman´s Daughter, The King of Yellow (Libros del Zorro Rojo); DARK MATTER (artbook), El Eco de mis Muertes (author edition); The Walls of the Castle, The Booking (Black Labyrinth). He has made book covers for Tartarus Press, Actes Sud, Planeta, Sudamericana and Páginas de Espuma. Also he develops album covers for various bands in America and Europe. As a teacher and disseminator, he is invited to give lectures and seminars in other countries. Since 2015, he has driven the cycle El Aguijón de la Noche, where he performs live pictorial improvisations, in interaction with music and recited prose and poetry, in an attempt to recover for the secular world, the ritual articulation of icon, music and word. The artwork of Caruso is well represented in galleries and museums of Argentina, United States, United Kingdom, Slovakia, Brazil, Mexico and Spain.

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