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Korda's famous photo of Che inspires Mexican exhibition

One of the pictures reproduced in the history of photography, which took the Cuban Alberto Korda in 1960 to Argentine leftist leader Ernesto Che Guevara, served as the basis for the exhibition "Che! Revolution and Commerce ", opened today in the Spanish island of Tenerife.

Gustavo Pardo, curator of the exhibit curator and head of the Center for Imaging of Mexico, explained that this is not a political statement "but the passage of an image in their own incarnations, the image of which have been reproduced millions of copies around the world. "

The portrait was done by Alberto Diaz Gutierrez (1929-2001), better known as Alberto Korda, the official photographer of Cuban President Fidel Castro, the day the senior of the revolution Castro in Havana to attend the funeral 136 Cubans killed during a counter-attack.

"Beside the Ché were Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, who in 1960 were in Cuba, because Korda was impressed with the intensity of the gaze of Che, which he described as encabronada and suffering, and thus was born the icon that symbolized then the student uprisings of 1968, "said Diaz Gutierrez.

The photo, later converted into cartel, was exposed for the first time in Italy following the assassination of Che in Bolivia, "and began to leave in shirts, trousers, murals, hats and even became a pop article," the commissioner exposure.

The show has already traveled to New York, London and Mexico, gathers works by artists such as Vik Muniz (Brazil), Pedro Meyer (Mexico), Martin Parr (England), Marcos Lopez (Argentina), Annie Leibovitz (EU) and the poster "pop" that made Andy Warhol, always starting from the image of Korda 1960.

"The image of Korda has also been used as a caricature and parody, in addition to claims for political movements as disparate as the Zapatistas in Mexico, the antiglobalizadores, claiming that the Latin American identity, indigenous identity and even claim to homosexuals, and what Che was quite homophobic, "the commissioner of the sample.

The 'Che' Guevara, an intellectual who in 1956, its 28 years, joined the revolutionary cause of Fidel Castro, born in 1928 in the Argentine city of Rosario and died in October 1967 in the highlands of Bolivia after fall prisoner in an ambush of the Army.

Via El Universal

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