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Description:	Victoria Bianchetti is a teacher at the National University of Art (IUNA) in Buenos Aries.Some recent exhibitions include:2013: Gagosian Gallery, Ed Ruscha Books&Co. New York, USA. 2011: Follow-ed (after hokusai) at Impact 7, Melbourne. Australia; Printed Matter together with the ABC Artists Books Cooperative, New York; Follow-ed (after hokusai) at P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Follow-ed (after hokusai), Winchester Gallery, Winchester, UK. 2010: Artists’ Books at the Universidad de Granada. La vida desatenta; Kassel Book Fair, Print on demand Photobook; Solo Exhibition at Special Collections Room, Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, UK. For two years of my life the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Project became a riddle to solve. I didnt know what Bagdad was like but what I did know is that I wanted to say no to any kind of violence, in this specific case it was violence against culture. It was an act of terror.While I was researching I emailed Anthony Shadid and he sent me a story about al-Mutanabbi Street. The descriptions were so vivid that I asked his permission to use them in my book. And he answered: “Yes, Victoria, Id be honored to be included in your work. Please feel free to use anything I wrote. Good luck, and Id love to see how it turns out. Best, Anthony.” (August 2, 2011 7:16:18 AM GMT-03:00) I want to thank Anthony Shadid for letting me use his inspiring words. The book is about what I felt when I read them.Durante dos años de mi vida este proyecto se convirtió en un acertijo a resolver. Yo no conocía Bagdad pero si sabía que participar en el proyecto era decir NO a la violencia, a todas clases de violencia, y en este caso específico a la violencia contra la cultura . Acto tremendo de terror.Mientras estaba haciendo la investigación para poder realizar el libro tuve la suerte de escribirme con Anthony Shadid que me envió un cuento corto de su autoría sobre este episodio.Las descripciones eran tan vívidas que le pedí permiso para usar algunas. Inmediatamente él me autorizó y fue así como surgió este libro. Quiero agradecer a A. Shadid por dejarme usar sus tan inspiradoras palabras Este libro se trata de lo que sentí cuando las leí.
Origin:	2013
Created By:	Bianchetti, Victoria
Contributor(s):	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/AMSSH/id/269
Collection:	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	In Copyright
Subjects:	artists book art bookworks

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