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Synopsis
The result of a three-year collaboration between photographer Nacho Marín and publisher Benjamín Villegas, this remarkable volume sets out to display traditional garments, jewelry, and ornaments of the indigenous cultures of Colombia in joyous and unprecedented abandon. Using his experience as a choreographer and costume and set designer, Marín has created an extraordinary series of theatrical tableaux where myth and memory, fashion and fantasy intermingle in a riot of rich color.
The variety of attire and ornament featured on these pages represents diverse pre-Colombian cultures, among them the Tairona, Kogi, Calima, and Nariño. Inspired by priceless museum pieces, talented craftsmen in Colombia today have re-created gold bracelets, nose rings, necklaces, breast plates, and a wealth of other personal adornments as well as beadwork, masks, cotton, and wool garments, carvings and ceremonial objects. Far from the typical representation of such artifacts in neutral and serene museum surroundings, these objects are modeled by nude men and women-- their bare skin is a perfect foil for gleaming gold and soft natural fibers.
Nature and artifice are blended here in unique and unexpected ways. From the roots of ancient cultures and crafts, endless new possibilities spring forth for adventures in design and fashion. This book offers an entertaining dialogue between traditional concepts and contemporary style, and provides novel ways for looking at design based on historical precedent.
The variety of attire and ornament featured on these pages represents diverse pre-Colombian cultures, among them the Tairona, Kogi, Calima, and Nariño. Inspired by priceless museum pieces, talented craftsmen in Colombia today have re-created gold bracelets, nose rings, necklaces, breast plates, and a wealth of other personal adornments as well as beadwork, masks, cotton, and wool garments, carvings and ceremonial objects. Far from the typical representation of such artifacts in neutral and serene museum surroundings, these objects are modeled by nude men and women-- their bare skin is a perfect foil for gleaming gold and soft natural fibers.
Nature and artifice are blended here in unique and unexpected ways. From the roots of ancient cultures and crafts, endless new possibilities spring forth for adventures in design and fashion. This book offers an entertaining dialogue between traditional concepts and contemporary style, and provides novel ways for looking at design based on historical precedent.
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About the Authors
Benjamín Villegas was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1948. Working together with noted photographers and writers, he has been the creator, designer and publisher of over 100 illustrated books on different aspects of Colombian culture. An architectural graduate of Los Andes University in Bogotá and a graphic designer with an honorary degree from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá, he has also designed corporate logos for more than 200 companies, directed journalistic programs on television and produced documentary films. His books have won outstanding national and international awards, among them an UNESCO prize for the world's most beautiful book.
Nacho Marín was born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela in 1961. Marín is a self-taught photographer whose art is based on his experience as a hairdresser, make-up artist, set and wardrobe designer, and choreographer and his studies in the fields of engineering and fine arts. His familiarity with the history of art is seen in the mannerist and baroque influences in his compositions. Especially attracted to mythological themes and the phenomena of eroticism and human sexuality, he has developed an original, independent and highly perfectionist body of photographic work, which has been exhibited, since 1992, in Venezuela and Latin America, published in magazines and won him a number of international awards. Atavíos is his first book-length photographic essay.
Nacho Marín was born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela in 1961. Marín is a self-taught photographer whose art is based on his experience as a hairdresser, make-up artist, set and wardrobe designer, and choreographer and his studies in the fields of engineering and fine arts. His familiarity with the history of art is seen in the mannerist and baroque influences in his compositions. Especially attracted to mythological themes and the phenomena of eroticism and human sexuality, he has developed an original, independent and highly perfectionist body of photographic work, which has been exhibited, since 1992, in Venezuela and Latin America, published in magazines and won him a number of international awards. Atavíos is his first book-length photographic essay.
Benjamín Villegas is the director and owner of Villegas Editores, where he has created, developed, designed, and edited more than 240 large-format illustrated books in both Spanish and English. Nacho Marín is a self-taught photographer who has developed his art from his experience as a hair dresser, make-up artist, scenery and costume designer and choreographer.
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The result of a three-year collaboration between photographer Nacho Marín and publisher Benjamín Villegas, this remarkable volume sets out to display traditional garments, jewelry, and ornaments of the indigenous cultures of Colombia in joyous and unprecedented abandon. Using his experience as a choreographer and costume and set designer, Marín has created an extraordinary series of theatrical tableaux where myth and memory, fashion and fantasy intermingle in a riot of rich color.
The variety of attire and ornament featured on these pages represents diverse pre-Colombian cultures, among them the Tairona, Kogi, Calima, and Nariño. Inspired by priceless museum pieces, talented craftsmen in Colombia today have re-created gold bracelets, nose rings, necklaces, breast plates, and a wealth of other personal adornments as well as beadwork, masks, cotton, and wool garments, carvings and ceremonial objects. Far from the typical representation of such artifacts in neutral and serene museum surroundings, these objects are modeled by nude men and women-- their bare skin is a perfect foil for gleaming gold and soft natural fibers.
Nature and artifice are blended here in unique and unexpected ways. From the roots of ancient cultures and crafts, endless new possibilities spring forth for adventures in design and fashion. This book offers an entertaining dialogue between traditional concepts and contemporary style, and provides novel ways for looking at design based on historical precedent.
Benjamín Villegas was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1948. Working together with noted photographers and writers, he has been the creator, designer and publisher of over 100 illustrated books on different aspects of Colombian culture. An architectural graduate of Los Andes University in Bogotá and a graphic designer with an honorary degree from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá, he has also designed corporate logos for more than 200 companies, directed journalistic programs on television and produced documentary films. His books have won outstanding national and international awards, among them an UNESCO prize for the world's most beautiful book.
Nacho Marín was born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela in 1961. Marín is a self-taught photographer whose art is based on his experience as a hairdresser, make-up artist, set and wardrobe designer, and choreographer and his studies in the fields of engineering and fine arts. His familiarity with the history of art is seen in the mannerist and baroque influences in his compositions. Especially attracted to mythological themes and the phenomena of eroticism and human sexuality, he has developed an original, independent and highly perfectionist body of photographic work, which has been exhibited, since 1992, in Venezuela and Latin America, published in magazines and won him a number of international awards. Atavíos is his first book-length photographic essay.
The variety of attire and ornament featured on these pages represents diverse pre-Colombian cultures, among them the Tairona, Kogi, Calima, and Nariño. Inspired by priceless museum pieces, talented craftsmen in Colombia today have re-created gold bracelets, nose rings, necklaces, breast plates, and a wealth of other personal adornments as well as beadwork, masks, cotton, and wool garments, carvings and ceremonial objects. Far from the typical representation of such artifacts in neutral and serene museum surroundings, these objects are modeled by nude men and women-- their bare skin is a perfect foil for gleaming gold and soft natural fibers.
Nature and artifice are blended here in unique and unexpected ways. From the roots of ancient cultures and crafts, endless new possibilities spring forth for adventures in design and fashion. This book offers an entertaining dialogue between traditional concepts and contemporary style, and provides novel ways for looking at design based on historical precedent.
Benjamín Villegas was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1948. Working together with noted photographers and writers, he has been the creator, designer and publisher of over 100 illustrated books on different aspects of Colombian culture. An architectural graduate of Los Andes University in Bogotá and a graphic designer with an honorary degree from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá, he has also designed corporate logos for more than 200 companies, directed journalistic programs on television and produced documentary films. His books have won outstanding national and international awards, among them an UNESCO prize for the world's most beautiful book.
Nacho Marín was born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela in 1961. Marín is a self-taught photographer whose art is based on his experience as a hairdresser, make-up artist, set and wardrobe designer, and choreographer and his studies in the fields of engineering and fine arts. His familiarity with the history of art is seen in the mannerist and baroque influences in his compositions. Especially attracted to mythological themes and the phenomena of eroticism and human sexuality, he has developed an original, independent and highly perfectionist body of photographic work, which has been exhibited, since 1992, in Venezuela and Latin America, published in magazines and won him a number of international awards. Atavíos is his first book-length photographic essay.
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