Books published by RM Verlag SL

The first monograph on Raphael Montañez Ortiz, American artist, educator and founder of New York's Museo del BarrioWith more than 200 color images, primary documents, an exhibition history and previously unpublished texts by the artist, this is the first monograph on multidisciplinary artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz (born 1934).

Textures and palimpsests of the politicalScratched, scarified and incised photographs depict the grim physical reality of decades of political struggle across various locales in Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Cuba and Mexico.

Found photographs from the Spanish Civil War dialog with a 1930 Bible in this ingenious and eerie artist's bookIn this beautifully produced artist's book, Spanish photographer artist Javier Viver (born 1971) incorporates archival photographs of the Spanish Civil War and the profanation of religious images into a 1930 pocket edition of the Gospel according to St Matthew.

A midcareer survey on Spanish photographer Juan Valbuena through five travelogues This book looks at the career of Juan Valbuena (born 1973) through five photographic series, the earliest from 1999 and the most recent, Dalind, previously unpublished.

Prosopagnosia (memory pathology to remember faces) is a project departing from a historial photo archive from a Spanish local newspaper active in the 30ΓÇÖs, devoted to public personalities of the time.This collection of faces is the input for a G.A.N. (Generative Adversatorial Network) algorithm which develops a machine learning process to generate new faces out of the archive portraits (although it could apply it to any kind of archive).The result is a new collection of photorealistic images of non existing persons. The final pictures are convincingly photographic but the focus is mainly set on the wonderful sequence of failed attempts that review important steps in art history: Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Picasso, Bacon, Abstraction and so on..

Chronicling the aesthetics of sacrifice in Mexican artist Ximena Labra's public interventionsThis volume documents 25 years of public interventions by Mexico City-based artist Ximena Labra (born 1972). Focusing in particular on Labra's use of the supernatural and carnivalesque aesthetics of sacrifice, the book features texts by Cuauhtémoc Medina, José Luis Barrios and Bef.

Latin American female photographers reflect on personal and collective struggleShowcasing 12 Latin American female photographers--Adriana Lestido, Luz María Bedoya, Johanna Calle, Helen Zout, Claudia Donoso, Rosa Gauditano, Leonora Vicuña, Carla Rippey, Carolina Cárdenas, Milagros de la Torre, Paz Errázuriz and Rosario López--Black Sun reflects on personal and collective tragedies.

Includes already published interviews with J. Guerrero (1979-), Spanish photographer.

Catalogue gathers photographs of prostitutes that where provided to select clients of a brothel in Mexico City and shown to Calderon by his uncle, when he was thirteen years old, so he could undergo his "Initiation into manhood"

This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Alicia Penalba, escultora" held at MALBA - Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, October 2016 - February 2017, curated by Victoria Giraudo.

Pablo Lopez Luz is the first book by this Mexican photographer. In 63 photographs taken over the last five years, Pablo Lopez Luz presents an assortment of landscapes that include images of Mexico City, Tijuana, Acapulco, and Chiapas, as well as a series of photos taken in Hong Kong.

This children's book turns around an association of images in which a droplet of poop appears as the principal element. This element is maintained through successive changes and adventures in the course of the book, forming part of a story whose different contexts change the droplet, even as the droplet modifies its surroundings.

Based on an exhibition of the same name at the Museo Estudio Diego Rivera, this volume offers a visual tour of Rivera's reflections on art. It presents a selection of texts by Rivera alongside images created by the painter himself or by artists who in one way or another held a place in his memory.

This second volume of Illustrious Words covers the period extending from Diego Rivera's return to Mexico in June 1921 to his death in 1957.