HORIZONTE Roberto Uribe-Castro

Perhaps when we think of horizons, we think of futures—possible, utopian, unattainable, or desirable. But the horizon, with its rich semantic and poetic meaning and its many possible visions, also contains the past that has shaped it on a human, social, political, and economic scale. It contains power relations and shapes the present physical and mental space. That is why it was essential for Uribe to investigate the past of the city and of Asturias, at the beginning of industrialisation—the same industrialisation that is referred to when we talk about post-industrialisation. Where are we now? How is our current horizon shaped? In a subtle way, the book covers part of all this research, historical documentation and a script for a possible future audiovisual installation. The book is, as is often the case (and as I also like), another possible body of an artist's work, a body that completes, points to, suggests with a materiality that is close, touchable, odourable, with its own temporality, unhurried, profound, which also endures over time. Like that sea, like that line that acquires thickness and into which we can then immerse ourselves.

HORIZONTE. Roberto Uribe-Castro

libro de artista
Edición de 100 ejemplares
numerados y firmados por el artista.

Este libro nace fruto de la residencia de
investigación realizada por el artista
Roberto Uribe-Castro en PACA_Proyectos
Artísticos Casa Antonino (Gijón) en el 2024.
Tanto la residencia en 2024 como esta publicación,
han sido posibles gracias al patrocinio de la
Embajada de los Países Bajos en España.

Concepto, diseño gráfico,
procesos manuales y encuadernación
Virginia López (pacabooks)

Textos razonados
Juan Carlos Aparicio Vega
Erik Wong

Investigación /documentación
audiovisual
Juan Carlos Aparicio Vega

Fondos y colecciones que han
colaborado en esta publicación con la
cesión de imágenes:
Museo Casa Natal de Jovellanos
Museo Nicanor Piñole
Muséu del Pueblu d’Asturies
Fundación Alvargonzález

Traducciones inglés y español
Olga Ramalle y Marc Furnival

Coordinación editorial y proyecto
de residencia: Virginia López /PACA

Impresión: Cízero Digital

D.L.: AS-03411-2025
ISBN: 978-84-09-79712-7

Este libro se ha impreso en Fedrigoni Materica Acqua 250g,
Munken Print Cream 90g y Shiro Eco White 120g.

Cosido manual con hilo teñido con pigmento vegetal azul pastel extraído de nuestra querida Isatis tinctoria cultivada en PACA desde el 2020.

Cuando se estaba imprimiendo, la higuera había perdido ya
todas sus hojas (finales de noviembre 2025).

Book process &
PACAbooks_ the art of making books.

Artist books and publications that celebrate materiality, craftsmanship, and the value of physical objects in today’s increasingly digital world.

Museo Casa Natal de Jovellanos

Gijón.

4.12. 2025 /18.00h

Public presentation

We are pleased to invite you to the event we have organised for Thursday, 4 December, at the Jovellanos Birthplace Museum, to present a project and publication that are the result of many months of collaborative work. We look forward to seeing you there!

Next 4 December at 6 p.m. at the Jovellanos Birthplace Museum (Plazuela Jovellanos s/n, Gijón), there will be a talk about the recent publication ‘Horizonte’ (PACAbooks editions). The conversation between art historian Juan Carlos Aparicio Vega (University of Oviedo) and artist and architect Roberto Uribe-Castro will address the publication, which is the result of a call for an artistic residency at PACA (Proyectos Artísticos Casa Antonino) in 2024, funded by the Embassy of the Netherlands in Spain. During the talk, they will discuss the contents, editorial and artistic methodology strategies, and the historical and curatorial implications of the book. The publication, with a foreword by researcher Erik Wong, introduces the work of Roberto Uribe-Castro and brings together some of the material collected by Uribe during his residency, based on the premise of Gijón as a post-industrial (¿?) landscape.