World Book Capital 2011 – Buenos Aires celebrates
by abevan on 13 May, 2011
Buenos Aires is celebrating being named the 2011 World Book Capital with a spiralling tower of books. The brainchild of Argentine artist Marta Minujin, the 25m-high construction by includes books in dozens of different languages. The plastic covered books were attached to the structure’s scaffolding skeleton over a period of almost two weeks.
The exhibit will end later this month. Literature lovers will be allowed to choose one book each to take home. The remaining books will be donated to start a new archive that has already been dubbed, The Library of Babel, the name of a story by Argentina’s most famous author and past director of the national library, Jorge Luis Borges.
Source: RTE news – click for the video
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