
Estudio elemental del Levante
- Publisher
- The Ice Plant / Dalpine / Torch Press
- Year
- 2020
- ISBN
- 978-0-9992655-5-0
- Specifications
- Hardcover
15.9 × 23.5 cm
64 pages
50 color images
Edition of 1000 copies / 200 copies for US market
Continuing the photographic language that began with Paloma al aire (2011), Ricardo Cases articulates, between 2010 and 2020, the meanings of his immediate environment, the Levante region of Spain. Beyond the classic icons of beach and paella he observes symbols with deeper meanings: music bands, palm groves, the construction industry, and the red palm weevil, a parasite that kills palm trees. Palm tree, charanga band and weevil form a triangle that stands for the spiritual map of Spain's systemic crash, a violent and screeching collision. Based on collage, the images appear affected by blight and partly faded; their superposition makes a raving musical score whose structure is chaos.