Piedra Volcánica

€37.00

ISBN: 978-84-17975-20-3

Author: Pablo López Luz

Co-published: Toluca Éditions
Design: Olivier Andreotti, Toluca Studio
Texts: Alejandro Hernández Gálvez, Cristobal Jácome-Moreno
Blinding: Hardcover
Pages: 120
Size: 24 x 30 cm
Language: ENG + ESP
Publication year: 2019

The images of Pablo López Luz are sensitive to the ten- sions in the urban landscape, expressing the relationship of city dwellers to their environment and, in particular, to those tensions in which the collective memory is en- crypted.

This is the spirit that informs the artist’s photo essay about various buildings in the capital city constructed with volcanic stone, a material that evokes the massive forms of pre-Columbian architecture.

The enormous metropolis, frequently shaken by seismic activity, is spread out under the gaze of Popocatéptl, over 5,000 meters high, and has itself encroached on the slopes of the Ajusco, a dormant volcano lying to the south.