Jorge Macchi: Buenos Aires Tour

by María Negroni, Edgardo Ruditzky (Artist), Jorge Macchi (Artist)

Just because it looks like a tourist guidebook, doesn't mean it is. Unlike your average Frommer's or Lonely Planet , Jorge Macchi's Buenos Aires Tour is a poetic object that takes an alternative route through the city. Guided not by significant places, buildings, or objects but rather by the insignificant, by lack, Macchi's suggested journey is an autonomous poetic structure created by materials found during the trip itself. But every tour needs its route, and so Macchi has determined one--or rather, let one be determined--by breaking a glass over a map of Buenos Aires, using the capricious fracture lines as the chosen path. A CD-Rom featuring music and the sounds found on the trip completes the journey.

Hardcover

Published March 2, 2004

About the author

María Negroni is an Argentine poet, essayist, novelist and translator. As a poet she has published De tanto desolar (1985), La jaula bajo el trapo (1991), El viaje de la noche (1994), Diario Extranjero (2001), La ineptitud (2002) and Islandia (1994; PEN American Center Prize for the Best Poetry Book of the Year in translation, 2001). She has also published the book of essays Ciudad gótica (1994) the novels El sueño de Ursula (1998)and La anunciación (2007) and a book-object in collaboration with the Argentine visual artist Jorge Macchi, Buenos Aires Tour (2004). Much of her work has been translated into English and French. A Guggenheim fellow, she has also received fellowships from the Rockefeller foundation, the Octavio Paz foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Civitella Ranieri. She currently teaches Latin American Literature and creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, New York.