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Hardcover
80 Pages
52 Photographs
15 x 30 cm
5.9 x 11.8 "
José Luis Lugo
Spanish edition
ISBN :
978-968-9345-23-7
2008
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In the mid-1970s, the Mexican artist Carmen Parra was living in Paris. He bought her son Emiliano a little fishbowl, a miniature planet containing a tireless swimmer and a tiny Eiffel tower. The child was entertained, and the mother was haunted by a visual obsession that resulted in a large group of small-format drawings, engravings, and kakemonos that combine a particular zoology with the svelte tower.
The photographer Pablo Ortiz Monasterio has documented with precision the urban intervention Carmen created with her drawings: a singular Ode to Eiffel in which she unrolls her drawings for the camera at various points around Paris, ending up across from the tower.
In 1977 Salvador Elizondo wrote the poem “La Grafostática u Oda a Eiffel” to accompany a deluxe edition of Carmen’s engravings.
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