Among the surprises offered by the Durango Fair, this year has been a success, as a new editorial has been presented: "Wow!" Nader Koochaki and Usue Arrieta presented: “-ren, Tractora Koop. E. is a project created within the artists' cooperative. Its objective is the publication and dissemination of works that are situated between art and other disciplines of knowledge”.
Two good news in one: a cooperative of artists and an editorial. Three, better said: cooperative, editorial and book. Geldi 2011-2017. The descent to the goitibehera is not what is understood by book, but in these times when everything is called an artifact, I prefer to call it a book.
They have produced 200 copies: 6 booklets with texts by authors, Jeremy Macclancy, Nader Koochaki and Diego Carbajo, 89 unfolding tokens, 59 down tokens, a poster, a photo album, cartography, inventory indexes, contest classifications... It's too much, it has an encyclopedic purpose. Vicente Vázquez (Tarragona, 28 July 1976) and Usue Arrieta (Mondragón, 12 January 1979) tried to collect everything related to Goitibehe.
The artist, in short, has that peculiarity: his way of being in the world.
They wanted to collect everything related to Goitibehe, because the Goitibeheras, in their simplicity, contain many other things in themselves. Roads, tar, baskets, bearings, villages, valleys, parties, groups, people with factory life and almost life, ingenuity, shared knowledge, and more.
I heard Usue Arrieta say some time ago that the Goitibeheras were “industrial rural sport”. Perhaps more than anything else show a world in progress, that of industry, as shown by rural sports in the life lost in the countryside.
Painted by Millet Las espigadoras, that painting hanging from the walls of so many houses, that painting that is part of the decoration of so many shops and establishments, that work that represents a scene of the agricultural works of the past, perhaps because of its beauty, or... [+]
