EDITORIAL

Title: Curso / Discurso
Author: Gonzalo Golpe
Design: Ricardo Báez
Photography: Alejandro Marote
Edition: Cabeza de Chorlito & Sed Editorial
Preprint: La Troupe
Pages: 84
Size: 16 x 21.1 cm
Language: ESP
ISBN: 978-84-122703-1-0 / 978-987-86-7046-1
Publication year: 2020

Curso / Discurso is a rare book, unusual, difficult to describe, and even more so to define. Typologically speaking, one could say it is a poetic essay on photography books and the visual language that uses design books and photography to project and gain sense to express itself. There is a lot of purpose in it; years of exercise and thoughtful work. It is the result of a meticulous care, diligent attention to detail, and work of effort at its finest. Its authors are profesional designers, editors and photographers that are well-known for their work and art. But more importantly, for their particular way of displaying and presenting it to the public.

Title: 224.844.349 m/s
Author: Alejandro Marote
Publisher: La Kursala
Design: Tres Tipos Gráficos
Preprint: La Troupe
Pages: 48
Size: 35 x 28 cm
Language: ESP
ISBN: 8416282765, 9788416282760
Publication year: 2016

The speed that light travels at in order to go through water (224.844.349 m/s) allows us to break the algorithm of digital images and to dive into the depths of the screen, to that place where the pixel is born. This minimal unit stands at the basis of contemporary plastic arts and it is its mathematical language that makes it possible for cities like Cadiz and Havana, connected by their architectural origins but separated by the blue ocean, to communicate visually. By navigating on the pixel we will be able to pass through the marine looking glass that brings these two twin cities apart, and at the same time to bring together all of the gazes projected from the shore into one reflection.

Title: B
Author: Alejandro Marote
Publisher: RM Verlag
Design: Tres Tipos Gráficos
Preprint: La Troupe
Binding: Hardcover spiral bound
Pages: 96
Size: 32.5 x 23.2 cm
Language: Bilingual (ENG-ESP)
ISBN: 978-84-16282-63-0
Publication year: 2016

“B” constitutes the second stage in Spanish photographer Alejandro Marote’s (born 1978) study of the plastic transformation of matter. In it, Marote seeks out two fundamental coast planes: the vertical one of the palm trees and the horizontal of the line of the sea.

Title: AB·STRACT
Author: Alejandro Marote
Technical direction: Espadaysantacruz
Edition: Gonzalo Golpe
Sound: Federico Guardabrazo
Digitalization: La Troupe
Design: Rebeka Arce
Publication year: 2015

Abstract is an immersive experience delving into the work of Alejandro Marote, a creator showing his work on colour and form for the first time. Starting in the city and ending in nature, Marote uses photography to approach material work in a personal way, stirring up Eastern schools of thought with Western mysticism, magic or alchemy. This is embodied in a dialogue between the main elements of analogue and digital photography: film grain and pixels.

Title: A
Author: Alejandro Marote
Publisher: RM Verlag
Design: Tres Tipos Gráficos
Preprint: La Troupe
Binding: Flexbinder
Pages: 216
Size: 16.4 x 24 cm
Language: Bilingual (ENG-ESP)
ISBN: 978-84-16282-34-0
Publication year: 2015

This book gathers the results of a study carried out from 2008 to 2014 that explores the ties of dependency that human beings have created with their urban environment and the way in which, after becoming aware of this oppressive relationship that alienates them from their own essence, they free themselves from it in order to return to a primitive state, in direct contact with nature. This evolution is articulated in four complementary blocks: The man, the city, the collapse of the straight line, and the return to nature. The man, uniformed in dark suits, possesses the creative power but remains subject to the very surroundings he has designed and domesticated in order to feel sheltered from potential external threats. This illusory sense of safety leads him to lose contact with himself and wander disoriented within his own labyrinth. The city becomes a prison in which the crosswalks represent the final and most perfect distillation of the urban sign, capable of articulating and musicalizing the daily transit of the man. The collapse happens when the man realizes that the straight lines used to build his refuge have become the very bars that confine him. In order to escape, he surrenders to the weight of the matter that condemns him to reality, blending into the asphalt. The journey home, the journey back to nature, begins.