The publishing house Expediciones Polares presents the book Los animales y sus oficios molones at PLOM Gallery, on Saturday, October 21, 2017.
We are back for a premiere!
And what a premiere!
Nothing less than a book drawn by one of our favorite illustrators, Saioa Burutaran, Susi Quiu. It is titled Los animales y sus oficios molones. It has been written by Iban Petit and is published by Polar Expeditions.
Country musician in Japan, one of the main characters of Los animales y sus oficios molones. Original illustration by Susi Quiu. Do you like it?
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Los animales y sus oficios molones is not just any book.
For starters, it is designed as if it were an accordion.
It can be read from the front and from the back.
It is a fold-out picture book that can also be used as an art toy or decorative object. 
Sweet taster, by Susi Quiu, one of the main characters of Los animales y sus oficios molones. Do you like illustration?
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The main characters of the book are 8 animals of the jungle.
Animals that work in different trades.
Each one in his specialty: country musician in Japan, cool book reader, candy taster, ball critter breeder, etc…
Exhibition of originals and art workshop for children
On the occasion of the presentation of Los animales y sus oficios molones, PLOM Gallery is pleased to exhibit the original illustrations of Saioa Burutaran, Susi Quiu. They are drawings full of life, color and details.
Both the book and the illustrations (originals and prints) will be available for
prints) will be on sale at the gallery. On Saturday 21, at 11 a.m., the authors themselves will read the book at PLOM Gallery. Afterwards, starting at 12 noon, we have organized a workshop to make animal masks for boys and girls. By the way, none of this would have been possible without the collaboration of our friend
Bárbara Aurell, alma mater of the creative interior design and architecture studio
Espacio en Blanco.
“Creativity is a social value and a human engine”“Excuses kill the art in you. So move, don’t stop, let yourself be carried away by experiences, colors, textures, shapes and people”. BÁRBARA AURELL, promoter of Movimiento en Blanco
These are the people responsible for The animals and their cool jobs
The book tries to convey the need to find beauty and illusion in everything we do,” explains Iban Petit, author of the book’s text. Even, or especially, in our daily work”. Petit was born in Donostia, in the Basque Country, in 1978.
He is a writer, editor and columnist.
He has published 2 novels: Anotaciones circulares ( 2015) and Los abismos ( 2016).
The artist Saioa Burutatan, Susi Quiu, is also from San Sebastian.
Vintage ’86.
She lives between Barcelona and Donostia.
She combines illustration, painting, graphic design and teaching. 
Contador de estrellas, another of the protagonists of the book by Susi Quiu and Iban Petit published by Ediciones Polares. Do you like the illustration?
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On the other hand, Expediciones Polares is an independent publishing house eager to tell stories.
It is made up of Eva Rivera, Ivan Rivera and Iban Petit. Their edition of the novel My Uncle, by Jean-Claude Carrièrre, based on the film by Jacques Tati, is a delight .
Two other books of his that we love are: Gainsbourg: Elefantes rosas, by Felipe Cabrerizo, a biography of the French musician Serge Gainsbourg, and La desesperación de los simios… y otras bagatelas, by Françoise Hardy, an autobiography of the most Pop singer of French-speaking Pop .
Don’t forget.
This Saturday, October 21, 2017, you have an appointment with Los animales y sus oficios molones at PLOM Gallery (C / Sèneca, 31), from 11 hrs.
With the presence of the authors.
And also, exhibition of originals and art workshop for children.
Are you going to miss it?
