INSISTENCE AS A FINE ART

Enrique Vila-Matas's study of one work of art, Romero de Torres's La Buenaventura, quickly becomes much more, leading with his characteristic erudition into a dizzying meditation on painting, history and the opacity of the present time. As one turn becomes another, the voices rise and shift in a profoundly elliptical flow. This work becomes a rich reflection on art, history and the mysteries of the present.