Nuevos Hispanismos

Here are three more covers for the Nuevos Hispanismos Collection.

New Book Collection

“Aproximaciones a la Cultura Contemporanea” / Approaches to Contemporary Cultura is a new collection for Vervuer Verlag Publishing House to be realeased during the Week of Spanish Culture and Cinema “Cinemanía” in  Regensburg, Germany.

Theatre, savage Islands and Sponsor Opportunities

This is a print piece I’ve being working on for The Tempest Ball. I’m really loving every minute of this project. This is a interesting tip: The Tempest is a very special referent for Caribbean people. In 1971, Roberto Fernández Retamar -current Casa de las Americas’ President- published his essay “Calibán”. A sort of manifesto for Latin American and Caribbean writers. In his essay, the central figure of The Tempest -the rude savage Caliban- becomes a powerful metaphor of Latinoamerican cultural situation—both its marginality and its revolutionary potential.

Retamar finds the literary and historic origins of Caliban in Columbus’s Navigation Log Books, where the Carib Indian becomes a cannibal, a bestial human being situated on the margins of civilization. The concept traveled from Montaigne to Shakespeare, on down to Ernest Renan and, in the twentieth century, to Aimé Césaire and other writers who consciously worked with or against the vivid symbolic figures of Prospero, Caliban, and Ariel.

Of course I had no intentions of providing that level of depth to the project I’m working on, but I found quite interesting the juxtaposition of this two realities: The Tempest Ball concieved as  a courtesan divertimento, and Retamar’s vision of The Tempest as a cultural study. I can’t help my self, I read Retamar before reading Shakespeare. And both are great.

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Culture and Social Change in Latin America

Here is one of the latests books from Mabel Moraña. Juliana’s mom. This is one of my favorite vectorial silhouettes I’ve done. The curve of the egg at the top makes perfect sense with the representation of Latin America (from Rio Bravo going South). The egg curvature provided the perfect cut at that point.

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