Saturday, December 9th - 4 pm
Bilingual Spanish-English book. 300 pages, 250 images. Published in alliance with Arte al Día Ediciones. Editorial conception: Adriana Herrera. Content editing and editorial coordination: Félix Suazo. Texts: Adriana Herrera, Mark Ormond, Ignacia Maldonado, Eduardo Medici, Félix Suazo, Verónica Riedel. Graphic design: Raúl Lira and Juanita Antonorsi / Studio Design. 2023
Review:
On Saturday, December 9 at 4 pm there will be a book launch of "Verónica Riedel. All The Worlds That Are In This One"/"Verónica Riedel. All the Worlds That Are In This One", a panoramic publication that compiles the career of Guatemalan artist and filmmaker Verónica Riedel.
Published by Arte al Día Ediciones, the 300-page volume is structured in thematic segments, not chronological, taking as a reference her most significant projects.
The central text, in charge of curator Adriana Herrera, gives an account of the artist's main interests, linking the different aspects —biography, media, strategies— that make up her vision of life and art. Also included are writings on specific works by Mark Ormond, Ignacia Maldonado, and Eduardo Medici.
The presentation, interview, and biography of the artist were carried out by Félix Suazo, who also coordinated and edited the contents.
The book reproduces a copious selection of 250 images of works, visual testimony of the variety and consistency of Verónica Riedel's artistic legacy. According to the artist: "I somehow identify myself with everything I see. As if they were characters that I incarnate in my stories, I get interested in each person and their environment. I love being able to coexist in different cultures and situations."
Finally, the graphic design by Raúl Lira and Juanita Antonorsi —members of Studio Design—, as well as the image processing and printing by ArtMedia Studio, Miami, provide the necessary balance for the reading and appreciation of the materials gathered in this volume.
With these essential components, the book offers an anthological vision of Verónica Riedel's artistic work, including photographs, collages, paintings, sculptures, installations, collages, videos, performances, projects, and mixed media works. With this heterogeneous repertoire of media and supports, the artist configures a visual universe where images prevail, especially those that come from photography or are connected to her activity as a scriptwriter and filmmaker. Hence the coexistence of images of all kinds, whether they are documentary, intervened, transferred to the pictorial format, or inserted in installation proposals.
"Consequently —concludes Felix Suazo in the Presentation—, this book delineates a continuous horizon where diverse optics cross and overlapping realities coexist, including those of the readers who now share the journey of these pages towards "all the worlds that are in this one."
Verónica Riedel was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala. She is a multimedia artist and filmmaker. She studied at the Colegio Americano de Guatemala and took her undergraduate studies at the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala City. She studied Photojournalism at Columbia University, South Carolina, as well as Art and New Media at the Anderson Ranch Art Center, Colorado. She graduated in Communication, Film, and Photography at the University of Miami, Florida, and in Screenwriting at the University of California, Santa Monica, California.
Her works have been exhibited in museums and international art fairs and belong to important private and public collections in Guatemala, Latin America, Europe, and the United States. Parallel to her artistic work, Riedel has developed an important film career as a director, screenwriter, and producer. Riedel has taught at the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Madrid, Spain (2022) and Guatemala (2016). She has also taught at Universidad Pedagógica de El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador (2021), and Universidad Veritas, San José, Costa Rica (2015).
