Re-cover project is an art project that consists in the creation of alternative covers for existing books. There are no pre-set criteria for the choice of books, other than being a reflection of our interests and references, and the featured photographs or snapshots are taken while out and about, only very rarely with a specific title in mind. This lends the process a spontaneous and experimental character that resurfaces in the playfulness of the final work.
This photo was taken in Barcelona, in front of MACBA, in 2005.
Guy Debord was a French philosopher, writer, filmmaker, and founding member of the groups Lettrist International and Situationist International (SI).La Société du Spectacle (The Society of the Spectacle, English translation) was first published in French in 1967. La Société du Spectacle is also the name of a film made by Guy Debord in 1973, based on his book. "In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation."
"To be a poet is to be taller, to be bigger Than average men! It is to bite as if you’re kissing! It is to give alms, although you are a beggar, Like the king of a realm where only pain is missing! It is to have inside yourself a flaming star, To have the condor's mighty claw and wing! To be hungry and thirsty for the sky! To condense the world into one lonely cry!"
"The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that."
Women, Art, and Society - Whitney Chadwick This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2009. Whitney Chadwick is an American art historian and author. Women, Art, and Society was first published in 1990. "The subject of the nude in art brings together discourses of representation, morality, and female sexuality, but the persistent presentation of the nude female body as a sight of male viewing pleasure, a commodified image of exchange, and a fetishized defense against the fear of castration leaves little place for explorations of female subjectivity, knowledge, and experience."
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov These pictures were taken in Amsterdam in 2003. Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian-American novelist, short story writer and entomologist. Lolita was written in English and first published in 1955. Lolita was adapted to film in 1962 by Stanley Kubrick. "The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea."
La Société du Spectacle - Guy Debord
