Julieta Averbuj El Juego de la Madalena

 

” I once wrote an article that attempted, through literary aspirations, to tie our willingness to utilize memory with gaming and strategic and beneficial outcomes. The simple idea outlined in the writing was that when something is at stake, our memory functions on a high level. When we are asked for something specific, where something is dear, or where we can gain, our memory works incredibly. We place highly-specific energy on conducting a practical outcome to increase our chances of opportunity. In this, the proximity or desire attached to a game or routine to be remembered is at the fundament of our ability to accentuate its importance. If there is no positive outcome, or we do not avoid a negative outcome by choice of memorialization, the attempt at memory will fail.”

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Original Specifications and Press Statement

 

ISBN (if there is one, it’s fine if there isn’t): 978-84-943983-5-3

CITY OF PUBLISHER: Murcia

YEAR PUBLISHED: 2022

BINDING (HARD, SOFT, CASEBOUND, ETC): Soft bound with a cardboard case.

EDITION SIZE (how many were made): 750

OF PAGES: 60

OF ILLUSTRATIONS: 60

TYPE OF ILLUSTRATIONS (DUOTONE, FOUR-COLOR, ETC): Four-color, offset printing

TRIM DIMENSIONS :24 cm x 32 cm (closed) 48 cm x 32 cm (opened half way through) 94 cm x 32 (completely open)

OTHER: Book composed of a cover of 4 folded bodies in a window shape with 3 splits with a booklet sewn to Singer” type stitching. It comes inside a case made of 1 mm cardboard, with stamping to 1/lukor 455 color on front cover, spine and back cover.

DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOK:

“I received a phone call in December 2017 and was told my father had passed away. In Buenos Aires, during the days that followed, I looked very closely at the family albums in his house. I then felt the need to make a book to honor him, as this was the object through which he also expressed himself.

I hope the reader lives the book as an experience. Whoever has it in their hands is encouraged to look at it closely and far away, to touch it, to look for combinations and find relationships in it. It is a book that invites the viewer to play. And I think that this is the best possible tribute to my father, inventor of the madeleine game (el juego de la madalena) and many others.”

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