Optic Nerve
- 208 páginas
- 8 horas de lectura
An Argentinian woman obsessed with art conflates personal events from her life in Buenos Aires with fascinating episodes from art history, refracting her personality through the canvases she studies
Maria Gainza Libros
María Gainza es una autora argentina cuya escritura profundiza en la intrincada relación entre el arte y la experiencia humana. Su obra, elogiada por su agudo análisis y estilo poético, explora cómo el arte visual da forma a nuestra percepción del mundo y de nosotros mismos. Gainza entrelaza hábilmente historia, memoria e identidad dentro de las creaciones artísticas, ofreciendo a los lectores nuevas perspectivas sobre el mundo del arte. Su debut en la ficción, aclamado por la crítica, marca una entrada cautivadora en sus exploraciones literarias.
"In the Buenos Aires art world, a master forger has achieved legendary status. Rumored to be a woman, she specializes in canvases by the painter Mariette Lydis, a portraitist of Argentinean high society. But who is this absurdly gifted creator of counterfeits? What motivates her? And what is her link to the community of artists who congregate, night after night, in a strange establishment called the Hotel Melancólico? On the trail of this mysterious forger is our narrator, an art critic and auction house employee through whose hands counterfeit works have passed. As she begins to take on the role of art-world detective, adopting her own methods of deception and manipulation, she warns us 'not to proceed in expectation of names, numbers or dates... My techniques are those of the impressionist.' "-- Amazon.com
