The Engraver, the Sloth and the Voyager

Abstract

The Cem Bibliófilos edition of “Bestiário” – “bestiary” has unique characteristics. Even if compared to other titles of the collection. Three are the figures analyzed here as a way to present the singular context in which such object was produced, together they are responsible for intertwining layers of meaning and time. The explorer, that carries a vast Imaginary within, creating, by his own written narrative, a scenario of a wild Brazil fuelled with ferocious beasts; the engraver, that clarify the text, by his own pictorial narrative, creating new charges of conceptual meanings; and there’s the sloth, one of the many animals/beasts of curiosity inside of this book, thought by the tow minds expressed into this unique written and imagetic context. The sloth is the compass in which artist, explorer and narrative intertwine