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Missbehave

Simona Rota, Agustín Fernández Edited by Paula Álvarez

Missbehave is the title that announces the  EKTAS collection, led by photographer and artist Simona Rota. It is dedicated to the links between two of her works, Big Exit and Ostalgia, chosen by the author to outline the concerns and issues she intends to develop further in the collection she is heading.

The edition consists of a limited series of 100 numbered copies signed by Rota.

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    Contents

    Missbehave seeks to bring to light the underground ties between Big Exit and Ostalgia by artist and photographer Simona Rota. Apparently very different, both works share the same concern about the possibility of the individual freedom versus quiet environments that affect and limit us. Also the idea that things, objects, buildings, live with us and have their own life. But these are only some of the many connections that intertwine them. 

    Missbehave consists of a limited series of one hundred numbered copies signed by Rota. The edition, carried out by Paula V. Álvarez, includes, along with the series, the short story ‘So it Goes with Dogs’ by author Agustín Fernández Mallo, and the texts ‘Apartment’, ‘Ostalgia’ and ‘Intâmplare’ by Simona Rota, the last being based on the editor’s interview with the artist.

    Simona Rota studied Political Science in Bucharest and professional photography in Madrid. Since she began her career as a photographer in 2009 has received national and international awards and recognition, including the Prize of Photography Arkitektur Zentrum, 2009. Her work has been exhibited in major international institutions as in the Modern Art Museum of Medellin (Colombia), the Architecture Museum of Vienna (Austria), the Museum of Art in Sevastopol (Ukraine) or the Stadt Museum in Graz (Austria) as well as in numerous galleries, festivals and biennials. Her work has been published in leading international media.

    Edition

    This edition of Missbehave consists on a limited series of 100 numbered copies signed by Simona Rota.

    This book was printed by Artes Gráficas Palermo and bound by Felipe Méndez. Olin Regular Natural White paper 150g was used for the pages and flyleaves, and Tela Gematex 109 Lemon Yellow was used for the book jacket. The book was bound with a hard cover and a square spine. The font families used are Simoncini Garamond STD and Futura STD. The production of this book was completed in June 2013.

    © Simona Rota

    Protagonists

    SIMONA ROTA studied Political Sciences in Bucharest and Barcelona and professional photography in Madrid, where she currently resides. In 2009 she received the Award of Photography organized by the Architecture Centre of Vienna (AzW) and in 2010 she was commissioned by this latter to document modern architecture in the former Soviet republics. Finalist in the IV Prize of Fine Arts of the Foundation Maria José Jove (2010) and the Prize Emergent of the Foundation Sorigué (2010). In 2011, Rota received several awards at the portfolio review Festival Emergent - Pati of Llotja in Lleida. In 2012, she was a finalist at PHotoEspaña Descubrimientos and shortlisted at the Purificación Garcia Biennial Award. Her works have been exhibited, among others, at the Museum of Modern Art of Medellín (Puntos de Fuga, Colombia 2010), at the Museum of Architecture in Vienna (Austria, Balkanology 2009, Soviet Modernism 2012), the Sevastopol Art Museum (Disputed Territory, Ukraine 2012), the Graz Stadtmuseum (Eyes on the City, Austria 2012), the Biennale Fotonoviembre (Atlantica Colectivas, Tenerife 2011), the Festival SCAN (Talent Latent, 2012), at Vienna Art Week (Predicting Memories, Austria 2012), ROOM Art Fair (Deal Art Project, Madrid 2012), the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Arte40, 2012), and the galleries Valid Foto, the Private Space and Escalera de Incendios (Barcelona, 2012).

    AGUSTÍN FERNÁNDEZ MALLO (La Coruña-Spain, 1967) has a bachelor's degree in Physical Sciences. In 2000, the term Post-poetic Poetry reached its height making connections between literature and sciences, which is reflected in Yo siempre regreso a los pezones y al punto 7 del Tractatus (2001), Creta lateral Travelling (2004), Premio Café Món and the book of poems and performance of Joan Fontaine Odisea [mi deconstrucción] (2005). In 2007 he was awarded with the City of Burgos Award for poetry for his book Carne de Píxel. His book, Postpoesía, hacia un nuevo paradigma, has been a finalist for the Anagram of Essay Award in 2009. In 2006, Mallo published his first novel, Nocilla Dream, which was selected by Quimera magazine as the best novel of the year, by El Cultural de El Mundo as one of the best ten, and in 2009 it was chosen by critics as the 4th most important Spanish novel in the decade. Both critics and the general public have agreed with amazement in what his novel trilogy is doing for Spanish literature. The second novel, Nocilla Experience has received awards for best book of the year in 2009, and the last, Nocilla Lab, has been chosen by critics of the cultural section of El País, Babelia as the third best novel in Spanish in 2009.

    PAULA V. ÁLVAREZ earned a degree in architecture from the ETSA in Seville (2001). Between 2001 and 2009, she combined her professional work with theoretical-practical research, writing and editing. Since 2009, she has gradually shifted her focus towards creative projects that integrate research and edition. She regularly writes for specialised publications and participates in educational and curatorial activities. Since 2006 she has carried out numerous research and editorial projects in her main field of interest: the disciplinary reconsideration of architecture in the face of challenges presented by urban contexts. She was the main researcher (along with José M. Galán) in the research project Nuevos Modelos de Espacio Público (2010-2011), and was Finalist for Spain at the 8th Ibero American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism 2012 in the category 'Research'. She was co-director of the magazine Neutra for the College of Architects of Seville (2006-2010), with a project dedicated to the contemporary city. She was winner in the publications category at the 6th BIAU, 2008. She was granted the Malaga Architecture Diffusion Award in 2009. Also in 2009, she founded Vibok Works and received the ex aequo FAD Award on Thought and Criticism 2011 for the book Arquitecturas Colectivas/ Collective Architectures.

     

    In the images, in order of appearance: Big Exit. Archive © Simona Rota / Simona Rota’s portrait / Own notebook © Simona Rota / Naisvoimistelijat Jyväskylä workers - Jenny Nieminen, Anni Hirvonen and Sylvi Piilonen, in 1928 showing female gymnastics. Source: Postal / Photo archive of the National Museum of Finland / Symmetrical shoe and foot. From Bernard Rudofsky, Are Clothes Modern? (Chicago, 1947), in the book Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky. Life as a Voyage, Birkauser Verlag, 2007, p. 189 / Simona Rota © Miguel Oriola / Close. Archive © Simona Rota.

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    Title: Missbehave
    Author: Simona Rota, Agustín Fernández Mallo.
    Editor: Paula Álvarez
    Publisher: Vibok Works, EKTAS collection
    Limited Edition of 100 copies numbered and signed by the author
    ISBN: 978-84-939058-9-7
    Pages: 80
    Binding: Hardcover
    Size: 15x22 cm (width·height)
    Images: Color
    Language: English/Spanish

    More info: Vibok Works


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