Today begins three days of contemplation of something eternal

“With the proliferation of intangibles, I think so The theme of the book continues, among other things, because of the physical dimensions that suit an individual’s structure. The book’s object corresponds to the reader’s body. Its dimensions relate to shelter in physical proximity, with touch, what is “at hand”, the tangible, the physical position of the body itself, the closeness of the page to the eyes; “All this has a human, I would say anthropological, aspect to it, which is part of the phenomenon of reading.” Clarion Visual artist and book lover Eduardo Stopia.

Perhaps there are some keys in these lines The survival and magic of the book. In conjunction with this phenomenon, Ampersand Publishing and National University of Arts (UNA) Which will be held from today until Wednesday Writers’ Object Conferences In it Malba and Carcova Museum (Avenida España 1701, Capa). Historians, editors, designers, and printmaking enthusiasts are the ideal recipients of this activity.

How did the idea come about to hold a three-day event around the book as a topic? “The idea came from Ana Mosqueda, founder and director of Ampersand, because… I had a feeling that there was a need for a space for meeting, conversation, and even debate about arts, crafts, and book history.. “Conferences on the history of books or trade fairs are common, but here we wanted to enable an interdisciplinary space for reflection and exchange of experiences,” reveals Diego Irlan, editor of Ampersand.

that seal, Specializing in written culture, she publishes books on books, publishing, art and fashion. In fact, in their catalog it can be found from the article The invention of rare books. Private interest and public memory (1600-1840), by the British David McKittrick, even brief Bull’s voiceBy Colombian writer Carolina Sanin, in which she reflects on written language and reading.

This is why the opening group of Ampersand silently dialogues with the conference activities. As Irlan points out: “A certain sector of the Ampersand catalog focuses heavily on the social history of written culture. At that point, we are always in close contact with historians and have therefore published indisputable authorities such as Armando Petrucci, Roger Chartier, Carlo Ginzburg, José Emilio Porcua, David McKittrick, Martín Lyons and José Luis de Diego.”

To trace this intersection between experiences, UNA joined in organizing the activities “Since the Book Arts Diploma and the work done by Patricio Gatti and Marina Malfi, the whole community can also be questioned and interested in a space with these characteristics,” he adds.

How can the printed book retain its appeal in such an immaterial age, where so many tangible activities seem to be subject to punishment? In keeping with what sets Stupea apart, it reflects the artist and the editor Matilda Marin: “It is true that We live in an immaterial age, which is why some tangible cultural movements that we make or participate in save us. The book produces precisely this rescueThat physical presence, the heaviness, the smell, the sound when turning its pages. The book is a tactile territory, it calls for a more intimate relationship and I think it remains a “desirable thing” because it reminds us that we still need to “touch” ideas to feel their presence.

the Opening of the conference in Malbathis Monday from 5 p.m., will be in charge of the legendary Designer and typographer Ruben Fontana, He will present his lecture under the title “A Machine for Thinking.” An hour later, teachers Ezequiel Cafaro (FADU-UBA) and Maria Teresa Bruno (UnCuyo-UNA) will discuss “Choreography for the Page.” At the end of the day, editors Letizia Barbeto (Tercera Persona and EME), Gabriela Halak (Documenta Escénica) and Cecilia Arbolati (Lote 42), will reflect on new editorial imaginations.

Tomorrow is Tuesday now At the Karkova Museum, it will be time for workshops and case studies. From 9 am to 2 pm. There will be a workshop on printing book plates with lithography. · In the same period there will be another binding. At 11pm they will focus on the edited study For the Voice (Dlia golosa) by Vladimir Mayakovsky and El Lissitzky by Spanish scholars Julio Sanz Melguizo and José Antonio Perona from the University of Castilla-La Mancha.

Brazilian essayist Ana Och, from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, will analyze French editions of Don Quixotefrom 3:00 p.m. After one hour, there will be a bibliographic exhibition on volumes of famous literary works written in the period between the 18th and 19th centuries. At 5 p.m., João Varela, from Lote 42, will explain the Poemobiles edition, by Augusto de Campos and Julio Plaza, in an axis between concrete poetry, liberation and the avant-garde.

On Friday, the conference’s final day, the center of gravity returns to Malba. Och and Sol Rebora, UNA teacher, will discuss the art of connecting history and experiences, starting at 5:00 p.m. An hour later, the printing houses will come to leave their mark. FADU teachers Marcela Romero and Pablo Cosgaya and designer Rodrigo Cuperas, from the Museum of Engraving, Rodrigo Cuperas, will print their views on an art that goes beyond Times New Roman or Arial.

The last page of the conference will be on Wednesday from seven in the evening, with Stubia and Marin conference entitled “Desirable Things”. Regarding the focus of the conversation, Marin points out: “I have a library that I usually enrich extensively. My books, whether editorials or artists’ books, have become, over time, “objects of desire” for various reasons. The books in my library are books that answer questions, life experiences, or poetic searches that cross my artistic work, and I often feel them as an extension of my outlook. Images that try to contain something of what moves me in the world.”

“The first idea of the book object as a bearer of an attraction that would add to that which authors and stories naturally exercise,” says Stopia, “was when I began, a little by chance, to practice the profession of a bookseller, in the seventies. There began the enthusiasm for reading, which slightly infected an audience that included poets, writers, and intellectuals, as well as poets or writers who were booksellers and co-workers. From here the infection of the book was transmitted through” the book, from title to title, the initial and spreading sexual obsession, which inevitably led to an obsession with Book lovers, and the emergence of the library as a kind of identity.”

Now lovers of the printed book have it Another ceremony to practice their worship. Together they will seek to write another chapter of this secular religion.