Sergio Barbieri. Buenos Aires. Author's edition. 2023.
In minor 4th (21 x 20.8cm), 95 pp. Paperback publisher binding.
Professor of Fine Arts and photographer, Sergio Barbieri (1944) this time introduces us to a topic rarely addressed in Argentine folklore, the "mysteries", enriched with a preliminary study signed by the anthropologist Lucila Bugallo, which begins like this: «In In the Andes region, human beings are related through rituals with space, the environment, beings, and with the entities that inhabit there. These are diverse and occur, in the form of dialogues, between those who make the offering and the powerful beings who receive it”.
What are the mysteries?, the reader will ask. "The mysteries make up a type of offering, an invitation to tutelary and powerful beings." In the work, Barbieri's camera gives us a great variety of mysteries, those that he bought from a very young age... «I bought several but since they are made of sugar and lime, when I arrived in Tucumán, where I lived, they began to melt and be devoured by the most diverse subtropical vermin of Horco Molle, in the University Residence of said province». Masterfully, the author maintains straight away that thus «it is demonstrated how difficult it is to transfer a culture. It melts or deforms."
