One night in Buenos Aires, during the filming of his movie Tetro, Francis Ford Coppola told Mar-a Gainza, 'An artist comes into the world with a quiver of golden arrows.' A Handful of Arrows is full of gems and curiosities: in it, you'll find a watercolour by C(c)zanne stolen from a Buenos Aires museum, a walk along Thoreau s Walden Pond, the cosmopolitan life and memories of sculptor Maria Simon, the travels of painter Francis Hopkinson and his assistant Moon in Mexico, and a cursed painting by Titian. Straddling the line between essay and narrative, Maria Gainza explores new ways of understanding art and history, breaking down genre barriers and inviting readers into her kaleidoscopic world.
