Guillermo Iuso

2014

Artist Novel, 21.4 x 13.8 cm, 77 p., language : Spanish, publisher : Mansalva Editorial, Buenos Aires, ISBN : 978-987-1474-94-3.
Materials: ink, paper

Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. B 2030/300).

Literary synopsis

In Todo lo que pasó (Everything that Happened) Iuso gets the juice of a poetic of self-degradation. He is a dandy who instead of swimming in the canals of Venice like Lord Byron, or going out to the street holding a grapefruit in his hand like the beautiful Brummel, organizes the itinerary of a booger under a fountain. Iuso is a narrator of the abject: jerk-offs, speed, alcohol, saturated fats, cholesterol levels – just like the old Bukowski boasted that doctors died before drunkards, Iuso boasts of having lowered bad cholesterol without lowering its excesses of Pantagruel in the era of MDMA.

– María Moreno

Novel's website

Authorship: Artist Author.

Creative Strategy: No Link to Artworks.

Genre: Memoir.

Publishing: Publishing House.

Theme: Abjection, Drugs.

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