Photographic exhibition portrays the more intimate side of Garcia Marquez
Gabriel García Márquez himself we approached the first stage of his life and work in "Living to tell," an autobiography that is reflected now and then in the form of daily and intimate photographs on the walls of the Spanish-Colombian Madrid .
The boy who was scared look cover of the book is an autobiographical account of the first to receive visitors in a sample which, through photographs of fifty, "recalls the childhood of Gabo, its first youth, their entry into journalism in Bogota , Their transit through Europe or her life in Mexico, "he told Efe the Minister of Culture of the Colombian Embassy, Luis Armando Soto.
And next to the small Gabo, pictures of their family, their friends or those who were literary influence of the author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
"It is an exhibition of moments and moments, a whole looks very spontaneous on the life of Gabo that is not meant to be exhaustive or academic," he told Efe Dasso Saldivar, one of the biographers of the Colombian writer.
Saldivar, but Colombian resident in Spain for over thirty years, is the author of the biography "Journey to the seed", translated into more than ten languages and from which some of the photographs that make up the show, which opens today and will remain open to the public until next August 29.
Next to them are on display images officers, snapshots of family and others signed by the Colombian photographer Nereo Lopez.
All convey, through the neutral black and white, tenderness and naturalness, feelings that, according to coincide Soto and Saldivar, are possible thanks to the work of curator of the exhibition, Santiago Mutis, son of writer Alvaro Mutis, and very close to Colombian author.
"It is a statement made by a friend and therefore I will not be approaching an assembly of large format, but a sampling of great significance," said Soto.
"Devotion" by Garcia Marquez felt by the readers of this writer "universal" is sufficient, according to Saldivar, so that an exhibition like this in the public heating.
Saldivar does not hesitate to underline grandparents photographs of Garcia Marquez, who appears in the snapshot with his brothers when he was only eight years or one that shows what remains of his family home.
"That started everything after those pictures lurks the secret of his uniqueness and his genius," says Saldivar, while compares "One Hundred Years of Solitude" with "Don Quixote" or "The Odyssey."
"They are works he says that transcend the local level to acquire a universal aesthetic."
Alongside the exhibition, in the Spanish-Colombian will be a screening of the documentary "Finding Gabo", Luis Fernando Colombian director of "Pacho" Botti, another opportunity, through 50 minutes of footage, to approach the life of Nobel Literature.
In his autobiography, Garcia Marquez said that "life is not what an experienced but which one remembers and how to tell the recalls," and photography can be, for those responsible for the sample, another way to capture those memories and bring to readers.
Via El Universal
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