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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

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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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