Above: Luis Cruz Azaceta, La casa de Asterión (The House of Asterion), 2009, 29.5” x 29.5”, markers on paper

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Painting Borges: A Pictorial Interpretation of His Fictions

Sixteen artists have created twenty-four pieces that reflect on the work of Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century.

Like Borges’ deeply philosophical texts, each piece of the installation prompts the audience to address fundamentals of human existence: identity and memory, freedom and destiny, and faith and divinity.

Painting Borges: A Pictorial Interpretation of His Fictions was organized by the University at Buffalo Samuel P. Capen Chair in Comparative Literature and Philosophy, Buffalo, New York and curated by Jorge J. E. Gracia.  HERE

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Carlos Estévez, El inmortal (The Immortal), 2006, 46” x 46”, tempera and pencil on amate paper

Mirta Kupferminc, Con el fuego (With the Fire) 2/5, 2008, 39.5” x 27.5”, digital print

Laura Delgado, Funes, vaciadero de basura II (Funes, The Garbage Heap II), 2009, 27.5” x 39.5”, mixed media on canvas