ATLÁNTICA, A DECADE

Spanish
ISBN 84-89152-62-3

'Atlántica, a decade' is a book of nearly 500 pages, summarising the spirit of the museum's magazine, edited by Antonio Zaya. With the cover showing the Iranian photographer and video artist Shirin Neshat, whose work, according to the magazine's director and art critic Octavio Zaya in the prologue to the book, "is in many ways a metaphor of what we do not wish to continue to see in the world: light and thought defeated by indignity and lies, and dark shadows triumphant", 'Atlántica, a decade' includes fifty texts, selected by Antonio and Octavio Zaya, including some by personalities as renowned as Okwui Enzwezor, Director of Documenta XI; Francesco Bonami, Director of the 50th Venice Biennial; Toni Negri, an Italian intellectual linked to the Red Brigades, and author of the well-known recent work entitled Empire; Guillermo García Alcalde, Director General of Prensa Canaria; Bernard Henri-Levi, the French philosopher; Eugenio Padorno, a Canary Island poet; Sami Nair, a French intellectual of Algerian origin who was previously advisor to the French government on Mediterranean affairs; Slavoj Zizek, a Lacanian psychoanalyst of international renown; Sadie Plant, the well-known cyber-feminist; Hans Ulrich Obrist, the international curator; Hou Hanru, a Chinese curator and director of the Shanghai Biennial, and Octavio and Antonio Zaya themselves.