Author Description

Poet and painter Fito Espinosa (b. Peru 1970) large format canvas and poetry created for the last 20 years and that represent his unique vision and the various art proposals he has experimented over time. "I have a more or less full photographic record, with old negative, which I had to recover. I also found a few slides that I sent to be scanned and retouched," explains the artist. All this work of recovery of his work has also been included in this book that comprises in detail his complete works for the past two decades: paintings, sketches, drawings, illustrations; and texts and poems which bear a chronological relation. This scrupulous editorial took one year. "The photographs I had of my work were negative or of low resolution. And if you want, for example, put a box to any page in a book you need high resolution. I had to scan and retrieve many of the photos I had". He also photographed works lend for the exhibition. The book contains critical texts by Manuel Munive, curator of the exhibition.