Contributions by Reinaldo Laddaga
Reinaldo Laddaga was born in Rosario, Argentina, and studied in Rosario and New York, where he lives. He is the author of nine books, many essays and two music theater pieces. His latest books include a collaboration with eighteen composers titled Things that a mutant needs to know, and (in Spanish) A Prologue to my Father's Books, Aesthetics of Laboratory, and Three Secret Lives: John D. Rockefeller, Walt Disney, Osama bin Laden. His website is here. The North American books that he has found most impressive in recent years are Lydia Davis' Collected Stories and William T. Vollmann's Rising Up and Rising Down.
Interview with Roberto Jacoby
by Reinaldo Laddaga
translation by Jane Brodie
Ana Longoni put it so well that I will just copy a passage from her introduction to essays by Roberto Jacoby and other documents related to his work collected in an indispensable book published on the occasion of El deseo nace del derrumbe,the Roberto Jacoby retrospective held a few years ago at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid. It says:
It’s not easy to come up with even one “avant-garde scene” in Argentine art since the sixties that did not have him at the forefront. RJ has been at the heart (or in the brain?) of countless milestones (many of them now mythical) of Argentine culture and art from the last half century. The list is impressive: in 1966, the Arte de los Medios group, now recognized internationally as … Read More »
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