The versatile artist will also be presenting his book at the CCK and the Borges Cultural Center.
American actor and director Viggo Mortensen arrived in Bahía Blanca today to present this afternoon his new book of poems and stories, “Branches for a Nest”and in a brief exchange with the Télam agency, he stressed that the volume brings together “new poems and some old ones” since he writes “since he was a kid.”
Mortensen arrived at the Comandante Espora civil ballooning station in Bahía Blanca after 11 o’clock, where he was received by members of the Lux publishing house, in charge of publishing his volume of prose and poems. “Gustavo López has the publishing house here and publishes a book of mine, the first time that I have been published in Argentina, they are new poems and some old ones, it is a mixture of the book and we presented it this afternoon,” he said during a brief contact with the press. the actor.
Mortensen advanced that “they are all the poems in Spanish”, that the name of the title “Ramas para un nido” arose because “I liked it” and that he writes “from a kid”.
The presentation will take place at 6:30 p.m. with the writer Fabian Casas in the Cultural Center of the Workers’ Cooperative, where in less than an hour after the announcement of his presence, the 160 places in the space were sold out.
For his part, Gustavo López from the Lux publishing house, the label in charge of the publication, had pointed out to this agency that Mortensen “is a good writer, he is a good reader and a very good photographer” and that the book he is presenting “has more 100 pages long, it is divided into prose and poems and another on a personal theme of his”.
“He is a plastic artist, he is a musician, a film director, he is also a theater actor, he is an artist of various facets, he is best known for what Hollywood produces but he has made independent films and he is an artist committed to his sensibility”, Lopez maintained.
How Viggo Mortensen’s visit to Argentina continues
After his visit to Bahía Blanca, the actor will travel to the city of Buenos Aires where he will present the book on Sunday at 6:00 p.m. at the Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK), while at the same time but on Monday he will read aloud some of those writings in the Borges Cultural Center.
Source: Ambito
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