Description The gaucho is a countryman. Either a landowner or a laborer, traditionally he was and still is a rider, even though currently both agriculture and cattle raising are very up-to-date production activities featuring a high degree of breakthrough technology. It all began during XVII and XVIII centuries, when the Spaniards began colonizing the south of the Argentinian lands of the Ro de La Plata. On the barren steppes, where the only tree youre able to find is the venomous omb, life is under steady risk. It does explain the gaucho strength of character, which was shaped to be stout, lofty, vigorous, always displaying pluck, skill, some occasional violence, a huge yearning for freedom and a rejection for the justice of a central power of which they have been victims for ages.
Joseba Bolot, Buenos Aires Member Since November 2008 Artist Statement The year I was born, Sergio Larrain published a book titled "The rectangle in the Hand". Some years later, Joseba came into the world. Time elapsed and we saw both the book and the photographs. After so many years we remain under its influence and systematically go on practising the title.