Todo se derrumba. 50 x 33 cm. X6, 2022

“Todo se derrumba” (“Everything Collapses”) (2022), 50 x 30 cm, engraving on plastic, belongs to the same body of ecologically and socially themed work as “La esperanza” (2021) and “El volquete” (2022), continuing Kopp's exploration of environmental crisis, urban decay and collapse.

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Materials

Engraved with a burin directly onto a sheet of plastic — an alternative surface Kopp returned to in later pieces such as “Aún quedan” (2025) — rather than the traditional end-grain woodblock used in earlier pieces such as “La sequía” and “El exterminio” (2018). The sheet itself was a piece of high-impact plastic Kopp found discarded in a volquete — a fitting coincidence, given the piece's subject.

The title points directly at the piece’s subject: collapse. Like much of Kopp’s engraving from this period, the image draws on the landscape and social tensions of Rosario and the Santa Fe agro-industrial corridor, continuing the exploration of environmental damage and decay also present in “La esperanza” (2021) and “El volquete” (2022).

Romantic buildings recalling Piranesi, the Rosario Commodity Exchange — where the piece was exhibited — and other local domes collapse, while silos and the real-estate industry rise ever stronger in their place. On the ground, cartoneros and urban recyclers collect women's bodies from the containers; prints, blown by the smoke, float through the air.

Themes

“Todo se derrumba” is part of Kopp’s engraving catalog alongside “El volquete,” both produced the same year. As with the rest of the collection, technique and dimensions can be confirmed directly with the artist.