© Copyright Guillermo Mora 2019. All rights reserved
Obras Completas (Complete Works)
2016
20 issues + 1 P.A. + 7 prototypes
We mention our favorite books, suggest people read them, and dare to give them as gifts, but what happens to those books in our library we never plan to reread? That we no longer want to keep? Do we talk about them? What space have they got? Where are they left?
Obras Completas (Complete Works) is the first book by artist Guillermo Mora, a collection of 20 unique pieces comprised of plenty of books from his personal library marked with paint, trapped together for good.
Paint in this project serves not as an image but as a material which covers and encloses. The blocks of color partially or totally bathe the books’ covers, back covers, and spines, literally hiding their contents. Information fades layer by layer. Paint seals pages that will never be opened again.
Each piece forces the authors and the titles to coexist. In groups of two, three, four, and up to five books, these diverse objects are now grouped as one thing, like a capsule, and obliged to tell their story.
Obras Completas (Complete Works) is a section of a library that will never again be opened, read or consulted. Each layer of color makes these books’ words less accessible. However, each book veiled in paint can now be read and understood in a new way.
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