Oleg Pospelov's art project “CONSEQUENCES”

The project uses excerpts from the Santa Cruz evening newspaper La Tarde dated August 5, 1972. The past, already consigned to the archives, to the trash heap, becomes the present, acquiring new meaning in a new era. There are debates about the advisability of building a southern airport, a religious page, entertainment, a chic, full-page advertisement for Roy cigarettes—8 pesetas per pack—they don't do that anymore, and there are no pesetas. The editorial office's phone numbers: 24-23-77, 24-23-78, 24-23-79 — today, all this is just a sequence of symbols with almost no meaning.

Some of the works have typographic overprints made using equipment and technology corresponding to the date of publication of La Tarde. There is even a very small chance that the same typographic letters were used to print the original issue as for the overprints. The text typeset with these letters no longer makes sense, but the letters are still as beautiful as they were 53 years ago—aesthetics triumph over news text, subordinating it to their own interests, because beauty is not subject to time.
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art by oleg pospelov
Made on
Tilda