Pages: 160
Cecilia Avendaño presents Enfermedades Preciosas [Precious Diseases], her first artist's book that conveys through essays, photographs and illustrations, the creative process behind her acclaimed series Enfermedades Preciosas, curated by Andrea Jösch and created in collaboration with Isabel Croxatto Galería between 2015 and 2019.
More than a monography, Enfermedades Preciosas can be taken as a journal chronicling, in an artistic and personal language, the course undertaken by Cecilia Avendaño during the five-year research, in which - inspired by classical portraiture, and through digital post-production - the artist explores the contemporary issues regarding the manipulation of beauty and identity, the somatisation of the female body and its complex relations with the psyche and culture.
The book - limited bilingual edition of 500 numbered and signed copies - gathers the 18 images that comprise the Enfermedades Preciosas for the first time, of which 11 had remained unpublished. In addition to Cecilia Avendaño's artworks, the publication compiles essays in Spanish and English by curator Andrea Jösch, writer Rocío Cano, investigator Elsa McCausland, and art theoretician Sergio Rojas; illustrations by Daniela Ramírez and Álvaro Arteaga, and graphic design by Patricio Vallejos.
The first edition of Enfermedades Preciosas was printed by Ograma in Santiago, Chile, and is distributed exclusively by Isabel Croxatto Galería.
Enfermedades Preciosas, by Cecilia Avendaño
160 pages, hardback.
Essays and words by Cecilia Avendaño, Andrea Jösch, Rocío Cano, Elsa McCausland, and Sergio Rojas.
Language: Spanish and English.
Dimensions: 25 x 21,5 cm.
First edition of 500 numbered and signed copies.
Printed by Ograma Impresores.
Published in 2019, in Santiago, Chile.
Enfermedades Preciosas is a project co-financed by FONDART, National Fund for Cultural Development and the Arts, Call 2017, in the Line of Promotion of Visual Arts, of the Ministry of Arts, Cultures and Heritage of the Government of Chile.
