This project combining graphic art and narrative practice, seek a thorough review of mythological themes too trite today.
Asturian mythology has been subject to multiple interpretations in the course of history from the realm of folklore, as a set of beliefs, and from the plastic and figurative representation of the popular. In a sense, our mythology has been displaced by rapid social and behavior that causes an unstoppable remoteness and lack of popular beliefs of our past.
is clear that times change and information and cultural foundations are being accommodating to new areas, is where the project takes place Pata Negra Ediciones rescue addressed as a collective mentality of a worldview from the perspective of a very special artist, Carlos Alvarez Cabrero , whose looks he unmistakable.
writers narrating the pictures lit by Cabrero us back a new and disturbing vision for popularly known mythological characters, but now immersed in a new setting: the context created by the artist.
The project has resulted in a book / folder artist limited to seventy-five (75) numbered copies includes 12 original prints and 12 unpublished texts, made for the project. All copies of the edition are signed in the colophon of the work. The texts provided are based on the original idea of \u200b\u200bCabrera on the mythological. Price: 750 € + 4% VAT
Inés Toledo.
Ana Vega. David SG
Javier F. Granda.
José Luis Piquero. Nestor
Villazón. Elisa
Torreira. Alejandra
Sirvent.
Fátima Fernández Méndez. Herme
G. Donis. Pelayo
The project is sponsored by Caja Rural de Asturias , whom the publisher gratefully acknowledges the excellent cooperation and willingness to achieve a unique and innovative work in graphic art scene in our region, surely a milestone in the traditional conception of mythology, understood as classical and popular expression at a time.
Below are images with an excerpt from the accompanying text: 
© Carlos Alvarez Cabrero Once a man completely in love with his wife decides to play a cruel game with her. At the time of greatest exaltation of love between the two says he meets a man at whose feet she would fall rendered even in its current state of unconditional love affair to him. She takes a joke and asked out of curiosity who would be the second man. Is a close friend-enemy-brother to the first man he admires, fears, loves and hates. (...)
© Pablo Alvarez.
© Carlos Alvarez Cabrero Dad runs
© Carlos Alvarez Cabrero tired. When he got home he threw the bag down and his jacket and took off his uniform with all the bluntness and anger that caused eight hours in an office. He lay on the carpet and stood there, staring at the ceiling. I could not think or move, just take a deep breath. He heard the ring with the phone always seems to threaten all times of calm. (...)
© Carlos Alvarez Cabrero
"Coven."
Early in the morning, the emergency physician, not yet the results of toxicological analytical Olivier, we recomposed with jingle history it chewed on waking in the hospital bed. The patient spoke no concert of his thesis about the Inquisition processes related to witchcraft professor who headed the Navy Otaola. Fascinated Otaola spoke of was her guru in the investigation, and the object of his stubborn desires. . (...)
© Javier F. Granda.
© Carlos Alvarez Cabrero
"Rafalero Commendation." (The Man Marin).
- Hey you!
The handle of the glasses Mirror ran to the Rafale. All heads turn. A couple who were near the shore stood up and asked what was happening. Voices were heard and then reappeared handle walking slowly, with eggs hanging like sweetbreads. "A fucking rafalero
said aloud to pass. If I catch him not going to be more willing ... (...)
© José Luis Piquero.
© Carlos Alvarez Cabrero
"Democracy" (The Pataro). It was eight
and the polling place was still empty. He had been a bad year for the country: urban corruption, of bribery, insecurity, violations ... The elections were presented as one of the most competitive in history. (...)
© Nestor Villazón.
© Carlos Alvarez Cabrero
The Trasgu.
Today was not the same day. ........................ I got
without While open headlights.
And I began to think:
That was not my site,
that was not my house or that my way
.
the day was fucked up, and all
seemed touched by the fog.
Fog Mones reached the village at the moment that Sara screamed and the dogs barked louder.
- What? "Martha questioned his sister from outside the kitchen window.
front is the board to sit and watch the afternoon and chat about life and death. (...)
© Elisa Torreira.
Carlos Alvarez Cabrero
"Death to the candlelight." (Cuélebre and Xana).
closed his eyes. Wanted to retain the fresh print of the sleeve striped bed, the smell of wolf tender him the inevitable laughter, the simian gesture in light of the candles and the little cry: the first orgasm she shared with a man. Finally, the time could hold sacred. (...)
© Alejandra Sirvent.
© Carlos Alvarez Cabrero
The Busgosu.
I'm leaning on the bar of a bar drinking my beer to number thirty, as they say, ease the pain of a woman who left me. And is not that successful with women, even I have been repeatedly tried and I've been in prison for kidnap twenties. It is true that they did not feel any contempt for me, were enchanted by my sexual abilities and excited by my smell montuno. (...)
© Pelayo Fueyo.
© Carlos Alvarez Cabrero
"Bad Times." (The Guestier).
Distant are the days of impenetrable forests where the audacity to invade roads where they roamed was punishable by death. Nothing is the same. Forests and their environments have been filled with houses and trails have become green routes through which tourists pass, crowded and tireless, with impunity. (...)
© Herme G. Donis.
© Carlos Alvarez Cabrero
The Diañu Burton.
See what might happen if the overnight stay in a city I dwell on it. Luckily for me, about two or three in the morning, humans exposed in the antagonism between the ideal and the real, living expression of social pain. And after ironic happiness drinking big gulps of glass bottles, electric charges stored strange with his eyes on and off. (...)
© Fátima Fernández Méndez.
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'Asturian Mythology' in Open Forum. Diario El Comercio, Friday, February 13, 2009. Myths
updated. Diario El Comercio, Tuesday, February 10, 2009.
The Trasgu not what was . La Voz de Asturias, Tuesday, February 10, 2009.
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