TRANSITIONS IN SPAIN
(book in preparation)
Transitions in Spain will be a comprehensive overview of the
build environment in Spain. An environment which is constantly
changing, today mainly because of the migration of mainly
young people from the villages and small towns to the bigger
citys. How everything is left behind, the old and modern ruïns
which remain untouched and only to be removed when
something new has to arise on that location.
Unfinished concrete structures, often neatly cleaned, are
waiting for finances and permits or to be added to the
waiting room of oblivion.
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Gaps in towns and citys with polyethylene foam insulated
acades waiting for new utilisations. But also the new
developments in the industry, the citys and tourist areas
were the prosperity is visible and big projects are at hand.
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A country that is changing rapidly although the inland
provides admirable spaces and where the old Spain
can still be discovered.
At the same time this book will be a hommage to his late
father Bert Schierbeek , a writer and a poet, who has since
1950 traveled extensively through Spain and wrote about.
At first in a travelbook in 1952 and later in prose and in his
poems. He collaborated with photographers and also wrote
some text and poems about photography itself. The book is
larded with fragments from his work and sometimes sets
us back in time. As Bert once stated; ‘Life doesn’t consistsof
one story but of 386 stories at the same time.'
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Alicante 2020 .
