Today, I got another email from ATcultura soliciting my work for inclusion in one of their publications. I have not been able to find any conclusive evidence about whether they are a scam or a legitimate enterprise. At worse, they are a full-fledged scam; at best, they are a vanity publisher (which isn't very good at all).
If anyone has done business with ATcultura, please post some information or send it through using the contact form of the website (see the links on the right).
Here's the content of the email:
Subject: Your artwork in Book of contemporary Art.
From: Ricardo Cesar Lescano Grosso (atcultura2003@yahoo.com.ar)
Córdoba, Argentina.
November 2007
November 2007
Dear Visual Artist Julianna Yau
Found out its work quality, we considered your incorporation in the book "AESTHETICS AND CONTEMPORARY ART" produced by ATcultura.
Biographies and images of artists ; commentaries by prominents reviewers, messages and essays of Contemporary Art, will be present in this highquality book, big format, it will be distribuited on first universities and museums of the world.
Book will be edited in illustration paper, with photocrom illustrations and in a fancy box, covered by a luxe cloth binding, bilingual ( Spanish and English).
Artists invited to take part of edition, will invite by a selection criteria of quality.
Biographies and images of artists ; commentaries by prominents reviewers, messages and essays of Contemporary Art, will be present in this highquality book, big format, it will be distribuited on first universities and museums of the world.
Book will be edited in illustration paper, with photocrom illustrations and in a fancy box, covered by a luxe cloth binding, bilingual ( Spanish and English).
Artists invited to take part of edition, will invite by a selection criteria of quality.
Atcultura is sponsored only formally by the Government and enterprises but solicit not subsidies from they, wherefore ATcultura prefer avoid any possible conditionament, this colaborative project solicit to artists one minimum monetary contribution.
Previous books of ATcultura include artists like Caio Fonseca, Natasha de Wet, Perez Celis, Carole Feuerman, Regina José Galindo, etc. You can see in www.atculturalibro.blogspot.com or in our webpage www.atcultura.com
If would be interesting participation in this book for you, we require you as soon possible reply to: atcultura@argentina.com with a brief biography for be larged to future, adress and phone number, to be considered one of selectioned artist for receive own proposal.
You can see first confirmated artists of the book "AESTHETICS AND CONTEMPORARY ART" in www.atculturalibro2.blogspot.com
Best regards.
Lic. María Miriam Farías Iriarte
Vicedirectora Atcultura
