600 pages Text(s) by Nacho Magro Huertas, Teresa Juan Tato, Santiago Alba Rico, Tibb-Al-Arif, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Slawomir Mrozek and Hakim Bey Designed by Antonio Ballesteros, Formo 25 x 18 cm Language: Spanish, English Hardback Publisher: Self-published First edition of 900 copies 2024
2012–2024, 12 years of visual experimentation and conceptual detours.
Borrowing its title from Vivaldi’s Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione, this book orchestrates the last twelve years of Escif’s artistic practice into a singular, cubist composition. Based on the Theory of the Five Transformations, it avoids linear storytelling in favor of intersecting paths, recursive loops, and humorous deconstructions.
Part retrospective, part visual manifesto, the book sits somewhere between an encyclopedia and a sponge cake—serious and absurd in equal measure. It features a full-page artwork “edited” by a five-year-old child and invites the viewer to unlearn as much as to observe.
