Ilustraciones del libro "Cuentos cansados"

En el video publicado en esta sección, podrán ver el trabajo hecho a partir del uso de plantillas recortadas. Cada una de ellas fue realizada, reutilizando placas radiográficas, blanquedas previamente con hipoclorito para quitar la emulsión fotográfica. Una vez marcadas con dibujos y recortadas con tijera y cutters, procedí a cubrirlas con una capa abundante de color (témepra- gouache). Luego apoyé sobre la hoja de soporte la plantilla coloreada, generando gracias a la abundancia de pintura, las texturas que buscaba. Una manera de ofrecer a los lectores del libro, una técnica que visualmente lo conectara con la espesura y materialidad de los colores.

Several unpublished stories were found in the estate of Uruguayan author Mario Levrero (1940-2004). They are presented in this book, accompanied by wonderful illustrations by Diego Bianki. The stories are dialogues between a relentlessly sleepy “I” and “Nicolás”, who presses him to tell “just ONE more” story. Punctuated by continuous yawns and snores, one dialogue follows upon the next: “I” tells quite strange, “sleepy” stories – for instance, about someone whose limbs keep growing longer because he all of a sudden can’t walk anymore, or about someone who inadvertently ends up in a monkey cage at a zoo because he can’t see anymore. It’s absurd, and the repetitive yawning and insisting also make it comical. Diego Bianki’s stencilled illustrations are marvellous. He brushed patterns cut from acetate with tempera paint and pressed them onto paper. They create standalone, fantastical scenes in intensely shining colours – dreamscapes that fit Levrero’s texts perfectly.Spanish / Argentina

Cuentos cansados
(Sleepy stories)

Levrero, Mario (text)
Bianki, Diego (illus.)
Buenos Aires: Pequeño Editor, 2018. – 32 p.
(Series: Incluso los grandes)
ISBN 978-987-1374-90-8
Sleepiness | Storytelling | Picture book

White Ravens issue: 2018

Reading age: 6+