The blog is up and running again! Most excellent.
I arrived in Buenos Aires last Friday. I guess that was October 3? Since then I've been exploring the city center on foot, taking Spanish language lessons and eating too many empanadas. Buenos Aires is a city paved with alfajores.
Have found a great little gallery showing artists' books (libros de artistas) already though. Wussmann is an interesting spot, with a large gallery in the front, a fine stationary shop beyond the gallery and a small press room with a platen and some other press beyond the shop. Downstairs is a little bookshop with artists' monographs etc, and upstairs is an area devoted exclusively to libros de artistas. It's not an exceedingly large space, but its super comfortable and there's plenty of work by Argentine artists to go through. I only made had time for one or two books before running off to class, so I didn't look at very much. I spent most of my time with The Lottery Project, a book by an Argentine artist living and working in Scotland. The artist, Ral Veroni, prints drawings and imagery onto his losing lottery tickets. There's a very long text in the beginning about why he plays the lottery in all of these different countries (a statement about funding for the arts) and the book must have been made up of at least 80-100 discarded tickets.
There is much, much more to catch up on, but I don't quite have the same luxury of time and internet connections to write my day away like I did in Japan. Little nuggets here and there will have to suffice. Photos will eventually happen, although I really haven't taken too many yet as I was completely consumed with Spanish lessons last week.
