Title: The Random Series -berliner trato-

Photographer/s: Miguel Ángel Tornero

Date of publication: oct. 2010

Place of publication: Berlin

Dimensions: 31 X 23.5 cm. book / 24 x 18 cm. booklet

Edition size: 500

Type of binding: softcover, stapled

Number of pages: 16 pages + 8 pages booklet with texts

Type of paper: 160 gr.

Number of pictures: (32 full color plates)

Type of printing: offset

Printer: Agit-Druck GmbH

Publisher: Künstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH

Designer: André Romao and Miguel Ángel Tornero

Editor: Nora Mayr, Klemens Pilsl

Language: spanish/german/english

ISBN: 978-3-941230-06-4

Category: artist book

Price: 10 euros

Summary: In this project, Berlin becomes an exciting stage where to make a transgressor photographic exercise. In one year living in the city, Miguel A. Tornero takes photos instinctively in order to make up a peculiar personal archive from which pictures will be used as raw material to create disturbing digital collages.

The artist uses the inconsistency with which a piece of software interprets non-scheduled commands. Tornero does not know the parameters used by the computer for sewing and editing the images nor he knows how the order will be executed, which means that the final result is largely left to chance. For the artist, this is also an opportunity to question his own work and expand the boundaries of the environment in which he works.
In the book (along with the 32 images that make up the series) the pronounced experimental character of the work extends to the literary field through a parallel process to that used in the photographic series. Thus, texts translations have been made using the inaccurate translation tools that can be found on the Internet. Therefore, texts are quite inconsistent, difficult and uncomfortable to read and seem to warn us that sometimes the reason and language are not enough.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: Baeza, Spain 20/12/1978

Website: http://www.miguelangeltornero.net

Book link: http://www.dalpine.com/en/book/random-series-%E2%80%94berliner-trato%E2%80%94-0

Donated by: Miguel ángel Tornero

iPL Notes: Video flipthrough of this book can be seem on Dalpine’s vimeo channel.