A grande transformación: arte e maxia táctica
Texts: Simon During, Chus Martínez, Lars Bang Larsen, Jonathan Allen
On the occasion of the show, the MARCO of Vigo and Frankfurter Kunstverein have published a catalogue including a text by the curator Chus Martínez - ‘An Index of Ideas Taken From the Other Side. Magic as a Case Study' -, together with other essays on magic culture and the unknown, just as in Simon During's ‘Tricks, Traps and Transformations' which summarises the key theses in his book Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic (Harvard Univ. Press, 2002), available in Galician and Spanish for the first time in this catalogue, - Lars Bang Larsen - ‘The Surface No Longer Holds', about the tendency in contemporary art which uses magic methods as inspiration - and a text by artist Jonathan Allen - ‘Deceptionists At War' - , which deals with connections between magic and politics, taken as an introduction to the chapter on artists and works on exhibit.
This book is available for purchase at the Museum’s Bookshop (LASAL BOOKS) and also online www.lasalbooks.com