{"title":"CABINET \/ The European Archive","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis section explores the deep visual memory of Europe—a continent marked by sacred tradition, intellectual awakening, and artistic reinvention.\u003cbr data-start=\"577\" data-end=\"580\"\u003eFrom the somber beauty of medieval religious art to the radical elegance of Art Deco, from Renaissance order to romantic decay, the collection spans centuries of European expression in objects, images, and design.\u003cbr data-start=\"793\" data-end=\"796\"\u003eHere, darkness and light coexist: crucifixes and relics echo beside classical engravings, folk rituals meet modernist abstraction, and the ornament of old cities survives in lithographs, books, and ephemera.\u003cbr data-start=\"1003\" data-end=\"1006\"\u003eIt is a portrait of Europe as a living palimpsest—where every new aesthetic contains traces of the past, and beauty often wears the mask of contradiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"antonio-saura-cabeza-spain-c-1970","title":"Antonio Saura — Cabeza (Signed screenprint c.1970)","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"409\" data-start=\"67\"\u003eThis screenprint by Antonio Saura, created circa 1970 and signed in pencil, is part of his defining \u003cem data-end=\"206\" data-start=\"197\"\u003eCabezas\u003c\/em\u003e series—a brutal and necessary fragment of Spain’s postwar avant-garde. One of 125 impressions, it anchors a historical moment when figuration collapsed under psychological weight and political fracture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1012\" data-start=\"411\"\u003eSaura, born in Huesca in 1930, emerged from the shadows of civil war and dictatorship, giving form to a raw internal landscape. A founding member of the El Paso group, he refused formal harmony in favour of something closer to psychic excavation. In \u003cem data-end=\"669\" data-start=\"661\"\u003eCabeza\u003c\/em\u003e, the human head is reduced to a violent cluster—an eye, a mouth, a snarl—trapped in the language of black, white and grey. The figure is neither portrait nor mask, but a site of rupture. The flatness of the screenprint method intensifies the sense of compression, as if the image had been forced onto the paper with the same urgency as a cry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1394\" data-start=\"1014\"\u003eThe stark triangular mass of the body, emerging from the bottom edge like a shroud, evokes both monument and disappearance. Suspended in a grey field and framed with graphic restraint, the print feels both timeless and urgently present—an icon of expressionist resistance and a relic of interior struggle. This is Saura at his most distilled: wounded, articulate, and unflinching.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1818\" data-start=\"1396\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"1415\" data-start=\"1396\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-end=\"1418\" data-start=\"1415\"\u003eTitle: Cabeza (Head)\u003cbr data-end=\"1441\" data-start=\"1438\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Antonio Saura\u003cbr data-end=\"1474\" data-start=\"1471\"\u003eDate: c.1970\u003cbr data-end=\"1489\" data-start=\"1486\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Screenprint\u003cbr data-end=\"1532\" data-start=\"1529\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Ink on paper\u003cbr data-end=\"1567\" data-start=\"1564\"\u003eEdition: 81\/125\u003cbr data-end=\"1585\" data-start=\"1582\"\u003eSigned: Yes, signed and numbered in pencil\u003cbr data-end=\"1630\" data-start=\"1627\"\u003eFraming: Metal frame with white mount\u003cbr data-end=\"1670\" data-start=\"1667\"\u003eDimensions (cm): 76 × 56 cm (sheet) \/ c.100 × 80 cm (framed)\u003cbr data-end=\"1733\" data-start=\"1730\"\u003eCondition: Excellent — slight age toning to mount\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51836480880978,"sku":null,"price":1200.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/05C09FE7-D3AE-49DE-9785-A45A1D7EFCF8_2.jpg?v=1768424270"},{"product_id":"le-voyage-amoureux-beautes-orientales-ouled-nails-courtisanes-1870-1960","title":"Le Voyage amoureux – Nicole Canet, Galerie Au Bonheur du Jour, 2010","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"170\" data-end=\"684\"\u003eA rare visual archive of intimacy and survival across the Maghreb and the Orient. 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Published in a limited edition of 1,000 copies, it brings together 300 photographs with texts by Étienne Cance and Nicole Canet, forming a substantial 328-page study of desire, colonial fantasy and female agency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"686\" data-end=\"1039\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003cbr data-start=\"701\" data-end=\"704\"\u003eTitle: Le Voyage amoureux\u003cbr data-start=\"729\" data-end=\"732\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Nicole Canet\u003cbr data-start=\"761\" data-end=\"764\"\u003eDate: 2010\u003cbr data-start=\"774\" data-end=\"777\"\u003eEdition: Limited edition of 1,000 copies\u003cbr data-start=\"817\" data-end=\"820\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Hardcover book\u003cbr data-start=\"854\" data-end=\"857\"\u003eDimensions (cm): 21 × 27 cm\u003cbr data-start=\"884\" data-end=\"887\"\u003ePages: 328 pages, 300 photographs\u003cbr data-start=\"920\" data-end=\"923\"\u003eLanguage: French\u003cbr data-start=\"939\" data-end=\"942\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: Galerie Au Bonheur du Jour\u003cbr data-start=\"988\" data-end=\"991\"\u003eISBN: 978-2-9532351-1-1\u003cbr data-start=\"1014\" data-end=\"1017\"\u003eCondition: Very good\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1041\" data-end=\"1247\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51955400638802,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/MAISONSCLOSES_7.jpg?v=1768030712"},{"product_id":"artesanos-el-buen-hacer-espanol","title":"Artesanos — El buen hacer español","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"159\" data-end=\"815\"\u003eThis book, published by Turner in Madrid, is a photographic and textual homage to the enduring craft traditions of Spain, presented with the tactile intimacy of a linen-bound object. \u003cem data-start=\"342\" data-end=\"377\"\u003eArtesanos — El buen hacer español\u003c\/em\u003e celebrates the quiet rigour and beauty of artisanal labor across the peninsula, documenting workshops, tools, hands and gestures with a sensibility that is both ethnographic and poetic. The selection includes nearly 20 studios—from traditional textile makers like Mantas Ezcaray and Teixits Vicens to contemporary fabricators like Apparatu and Seco Goldsmith—each of whom preserve a distinct relationship to material, locality, and time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"817\" data-end=\"1449\"\u003eThe cover image alone—fuchsia-dyed yarn drying against a peeling wall—summons the synesthetic core of this work: texture, color, repetition, patience. The book’s texts by Txema Ybarra and photographs by Pablo Zamora resist nostalgia, instead offering present-tense immersion in living workshops where function and beauty meet in modest forms. What unites these diverse artisans is a care for process, and an insistence that slowness, tradition and idiosyncrasy remain vital in a world of mechanized sameness. Darwin includes this title not simply as a book on craft, but as a crafted book—an artefact of the very ethos it documents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1451\" data-end=\"1470\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1451\" data-end=\"1470\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1472\" data-end=\"1789\"\u003eTitle: Artesanos — El buen hacer español\u003cbr data-start=\"1512\" data-end=\"1515\"\u003eAuthors: Txema Ybarra (texts), Pablo Zamora (photographs)\u003cbr data-start=\"1572\" data-end=\"1575\"\u003eDate: 2021\u003cbr data-start=\"1585\" data-end=\"1588\"\u003eTechnique: Offset printing\u003cbr data-start=\"1614\" data-end=\"1617\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Hardcover with printed cloth and tip-on image\u003cbr data-start=\"1682\" data-end=\"1685\"\u003eLanguage: Spanish\u003cbr data-start=\"1702\" data-end=\"1705\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003ePages: Approx. 240\u003cbr data-start=\"1723\" data-end=\"1726\"\u003ePublisher: Turner Libros\u003cbr data-start=\"1750\" data-end=\"1753\"\u003eISBN: 9788417554252\u003cbr data-start=\"1772\" data-end=\"1775\"\u003eCondition: New\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51956963115346,"sku":null,"price":65.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/NewTemplate_1.jpg?v=1768030086"}],"url":"https:\/\/thedarwin.es\/collections\/cabinet-the-european-archive.oembed","provider":"DaRWIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}