BEYOND HISTORY

by Vincent Delbrouck (V.D.)

FINALIST FOR THE RENCONTRES D’ARLES BOOK AWARD 2009

Published by Bold Publishing (Amsterdam), 2008.
19 X 28 cm
210 pages
Print run of 1000 copies (numbered and signed by the artist) with unique cover redesigned by V.D. with his red and black marker
Offset printing on 122 Japanese Kasadaka paper, by Lecturis (Eindhoven, NL)
Including poems by the famous Cuban writer Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, author of Dirty Trilogy of Havana (www.pedrojuangutierrez.com).

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An antipoetic trip inside another Havana, in complete and crazy family intimacy. A neighborhood, a bird in a cage, a girl with a cigarette, a dirty and enchanting autofiction.

« Then – and this is exactly when VD’s inclusive vision works its magic – comes a picture of a terrapin in a filthy, broken bowl. This is poetry and antipoetry (the facing page carries a poem by Gutiérrez called “Material Antipoético” – translation in the back). Everything that a consumer-driven society obsessed by perfection would find depressing and cheap and ugly and sad is made beautiful in its unbeauty. This is VD’s great achievement and his great love.»

Max Houghton - foto8 magazine.