La playa

2010-2011    Edition of 10.     

$1500

 9 5/8" x 78" - Lithography and woodcut on a Cuban Atlas.
Essay by Norberto Marrero Pírez

In 2010 while working in the Taller Experimental de la Gráfica, I overprinted the 1979 Atlas of Cuba, a volume published for the twentieth anniversary of the Cuban Revolution incorporating antique images found on lithographic stones at the Taller. These found images are a record of both the advertising and the tobacco industry in Cuba at the turn of the twentieth century.

The pages of the accordion book are attached with hinges printed from the Mambi tobacco label celebrating the Cuban Calvary of the 1898 War for Independence (Spanish American War) along with images from Christmas wrapping paper-- snow covered trees and all. On the verso, the pages are printed with the soles of shoes found abandoned on city streets.