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Opening TODO PALICEDE ANTE EL LIBRO at Centro de Arte Alcobendas, June 30, 2016

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Opening of “Todo palidece ante el libro” [All pales before the book], at the Centro de Arte Alcobendas, on June 30, 2016 at 19.30

Centro de Arte Alcobendas

C/ Mariano Sebastián Izuel 9
28100 Alcobendas, Madrid

The show, which is part of PhotoEspana, will be on until September 13.

More information here

Todo palidece ante el libro presents the printed book as the universal medium, the container which holds all the narrations, the story that tells all the stories, including that of its own birth, but also of its own destruction.

In this exhibition, Nicolas Grospierre has assembled several works – photographs, photographic objects, installations, videos – which, every time in a different way, praise the wonder of the book, by showing the vertigo and exhilaration that enlightenment can create, the melancholy at the prospect of a devastated library, but also the capacity of knowledge to come back to life once it has been destroyed, literally rising from its own ashes.