This catalogue was created for the exhibition Autorretrato (Selfportrait) of Nelson Domínguez on the occasion of the granting to him of the 2009 National Award of Fine Arts. It contains an overview on his lifework.
Since the first meeting I had with the artist I realized that, in spite of his age, he was a man full of energy, reinventing himself and questioning his own work over and over. That’s why the general concept of the book was to show him and his artwork as something still growing, like a work in process. I decided not to bind the book, but to use instead a pair of quite visible copper staples on one side, as if it would have been a bunch of A4 papers that one has taken and tied together. Another decision on this direction was printing his sign using silkscreen technique on handmade paper and to use this as cover for the catalogue.