MARIA THEREZA ALVES – “Thieves and Murderers in Naples: A Brief History on Families, Colonization, Immense Wealth, Land Theft, Art and the Valle de Xico Community Museum in Mexico.”

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“I live in Germany and history has taught us that the offspring are not responsible for their parent’s actions but only if they actively fight against the privileges that were incurred with that history of oppression. Otherwise, as in the case with Mexico, it is active participation in continued colonization. It is hoped that this book may act as an appeal to the heirs of this long and bloody history to once and for all desist from maintaining the title active and to let it fade into history along with the grotesque chains and the seven indigenous strangled/severed heads that make up the iconographyof the coat of arms of Hernan Cortes”.MTA

No Man’s Land collection is a series of artist books curated by members of the Scientific Committee of No Man’s Land Foundation. The print run of each volume is of 987 copies. A number that is a clear reference to Fibonacci’s arithmetic sequence, related to the growth process in nature.

MARIA THEREZA ALVES
Thieves and Murderers in Naples: A Brief History on Families, Colonization, Immense Wealth, Land Theft, Art and the Valle de Xico Community Museum in Mexico.
NO MAN’S LAND COLLECTION
Editor: Di Paolo Edizioni
Texts: the artist
Graphic design and image processing: Kai-Morten Vollmer
Copy editing: Nicola Gray
Made in collaboration with Gruppo Cordenons
Cover paper: Cordenons Recyco White 300g
Internal pages paper: Cordenons Recyco White 170g
Printed by Grafiche Antiga S.p.A. in July 2020