Arnoldo Kraus and Vicente Rojo

The apology of things, by the medical writer Arnoldo Kraus, overcomes in several ways his two previous apologies, dedicated to the pencil and the book, in which the object of his praise did not cease to be himself at any time, where the pencil It was always pencil and book, book. In spite of the philosophical and sentimental reflections with which he weaves the essays of 2011 and 2012, the author did not transcend the meaning of these objects as he does now in the Apology of things, in which the focus of his sight, Is so broad that the path it makes for its implications and meanings, from subjective to objective, overflows every limit, crosses the border of the concrete and achieves abstraction. For Kraus they are more than things. They are also words, are terms, are muletillas and, despite their vagueness, form the nucleus of countless idioms and rhetorical figures. For his part, the visual artist Vicente Rojo, who accompanied with images to Kraus in the other two apologies, and which likewise does in this one, part of the concretion of a series of things, a tube of paint exhausted to a few Scissors, to settle in the abstraction of a Self-portrait made with his things. Of course, significant and symbolic things for him that, curiously, portray him. Bárbara Jacobs