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.
Virginia López.
"HORIZONTE. Roberto Uribe-Castro"
This artist book has been developed through a research process led by artist Roberto Uribe-Castro focused on the idea of the postindustrial landscape during a three-week research residency at PACA_Proyectos Artísticos Casa Antonino, (Asturias) in 2024, curated by Virginia López.
The project brings together interests in the history of landscape—from Flemish painting to the present—our place within nature, and the geopolitical dimensions embedded in contemporary landscapes. These concerns take shape in this publication, which serves as the conceptual and visual foundation of a larger proposal: a three-channel audiovisual installation portraying the coastline of Gijón. Through sustained observation of the horizon, the project proposes a slow and attentive gaze toward the coastal landscape as a site where history, industry, memory, and perception intersect.
This book invites you to experience the horizon through three scripts—one for each screen—, to linger over still images revealed through its fold-outs, and to read selected texts that became central to the development of the project: an introductory text by Erik Wong and contributions by Juan Carlos Aparicio Vega reflecting on artworks, places, and historical moments in Gijón.
The design, conceptual articulation and materiality of the book were developed by Virginia López (pacabooks). The research residency (2024) and this book (2025) both have been developed with the financial support of the Embassy of the Netherlands.
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 comisaria del
proyecto de residencia 2024-2025:
Virginia López /PACA
Impresión: Cízero Digital
© de las imágenes y textos: sus autores
© de esta edición: pacabooks, 2025
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).
Roberto Uribe-Castro
https://robertouribecastro.de/es
Proyecto de residencia en PACA:
What about postindustrial?
https://pacaproyectosartisticos.com/artistinresidence/roberto-uribe-castro-artist-in-residence-2024/
Book process &
PACAbooks_ by Virginia López
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, introduced by Virginia López as curator of the residency project and designer of the book; 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.
