CASA DE CAMPO (SIGNED)

Antonio M. Xoubanova
CASA DE CAMPO (SIGNED)

Photographs: Antonio M. Xoubanova

Text: Luis Lopez Navarro

Publisher: Mack

144 pages

Year: 2013

Price: 90 €

Comments: Illustrated hardcover, 21,5 x 15, 5 cm, colors photographs. In very good condition. Out of print. Signed by the photographer.

Casa de Campo is a photographic fable rooted firmly in the realities of Madrid’s largest public park. Casa de Campo sprawls, five times the size of Central Park, to the west of Madrid. Between 2008 and 2012 Antonio M. Xoubanova wandered the paths of this urban woodland examining the people, animals and objects he saw as if he was on uncommon ground. Inadvertently he found himself transforming a given reality into narrative fiction.

Designed as an ancient fairy tale, the book is made up of five chapters referring respectively to love, death, fleeting moments, symbols and a lack of direction. It examines both the symbolic and the oneiric through the gathering together of people, animals, animate and inanimate beings within this single space. In his text Luis Lopez posits that for any researcher, archaeologist, intruder or anthropologist their findings will always be the same: someone was here, somebody did this. Stuff happens here.

These traces are what drew Xoubanova back into Casa de Campo over the years.