In Search of Space Objectivism. On El cielo de Boedo, by Daniel Durand

Abstract

In this article, I take as a starting point a series of poems included on the last page of the first issue of the magazine 18 Whiskys, without authorship attribution, in which reference is made to «space objectivism». From there, I think about the critical possibilities of this category that, somehow, seems to give another tone to the objectivist poetics that was, around 1990, in the middle of the process of national formation. Then I focus on reading El cielo de Boedo, by Daniel Durand, as a book that, in this trail opened by Whiskys, questions and makes the visual and technical possibilities conceived by Argentine objectivism from a series of operations stumble that are detailed and defined in the course of the analysis.