Gestures of the centaur (Ediciones Periféricas / ITAC, 2021), by Marcos Daniel Aguilar, traces a literary and pictorial journey throughout the American continent, between the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Throughout the essay, the author shoots the dart-feather, as in a fairground game, to focus the reader's attention on the figure of the horse, represented in various novels, collections of poems, "easel" paintings, murals, and vignettes. He identifies the equine presence -and its riders, like American centaurs-, which he crosses, spectral, before his gaze, and it is that before he disappears, Marcos Daniel analyzes him and reviews with him aesthetic and historical aspects in the work of artists such as Jorge Luis Borges, Ricardo Güiraldes and Saint-John Perse; Julio Ruelas, Ernesto Icaza and Raúl Anguiano, among others. As if it were "The horse in motion" by Eadweard J. Muybridge, precursor of the cinematograph, in the succession of photographs of a horse with a galloping rider, this book dialogues with these apparitions that different artists placed, perhaps without realizing it, with pen and brush. Aguilar, thus, takes the centaur of literary genres (another horse with a human torso) and trots alongside him to explore landscapes of Spanish-American culture that, for moments both, suspended, stop touching the ground.