TRANSITIONS IN SPAIN
336 pages - 26 x 28 cm
Available at: Lecturis - www.amazon.nl - www.bol.com nl
Transitions in Spain is a journey through the changing built
environment in Spain. An environment that has been changing
for many years due to the migration of people to the big cities
Howeverything is left behind, the old and modern ruïns which
remainuntouched and only to be removed when something new
has to arise on that location.
Never-finished concrete skeletons that, often neatly cleaned,
stand in all their nakedness in the waiting room of oblivion.
And the gaps in the streets of villages and towns, with bright
orange PU foam insulated facades that are waiting fora new
purpose, but also the new developments in industry, in the
cities and tourist areas where the money is earned and where
major projects are being developed. A country that is changing
rapidly, but with an interior where the old Spain still reigns, with
landscapes of an admirable raw vastness and where the villages
still seem to have been placed in the land in an organic way..
This book is also a tribute to his father Bert Schierbeek, the
writer and poet, who has traveled extensively through Spain
since 1950 and wrote about that country. In 1952 a travel book
and later in prose and poetry.
On these trips he also collaborated several times with well-known
photographers and wrote texts for photo books about Spain
.
A selection of all these texts have been incorporated into this
book and takes us back in time.
As Bert Schierbeek once stated; Life doesn’t consists of one
story but of 77 stories at the same time.
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Alicante 2020 .
