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Photo exhibition depicts the more intimate side of Garcia Marquez

Gabriel García Márquez himself brought us the first stage of his life and work in "Living to Tell," an autobiography that is reflected now and then in the form of intimate, everyday photographs on the walls of the Centro Hispano-Colombiano de Madrid .

The boy was frightened look autobiographical book cover is one of the first to receive visitors from a sample through fifty photographs, "Reviews Gabo's childhood, his youth, his entry into journalism in Bogota , their transit through Europe or your life in Mexico, "the adviser told Efe Culture Colombian Embassy, Luis Armando Soto.

And beside the small Gabo, pictures of family, 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 Gabo's life that can not be exhaustive or academic," he told Efe Dasso Saldivar, one of the biographers of the Colombian writer.

Saldivar, a Colombian citizen residing in Spain for thirty years, is author of the biography "Journey to the Source", translated into over ten languages and from which some of the photographs that make up the exhibition, which opens today and will remain open to the public until Aug. 29.

Together with these official displaying images, snapshots of family and others signed by the Colombian photographer Nereo Lopez.

All passed through the neutral black and white, tenderness and naturalness, feelings that, according to Soto and Saldivar agreed, are possible thanks to the work of the curator of the exhibition, Santiago Mutis, son of writer Alvaro Mutis, and someone very close to Colombian author.

"It is a statement made by a friend and, therefore, who approaches will not find a montage of great format, but a sign of great significance," said Soto.

"Devotion" by Garcia Marquez felt by readers of this writer "universal" enough, according to Saldivar, for an exhibition like this permeates the public.

Saldivar does not hesitate to point out the pictures of the grandfathers of Garcia Marquez, the instant in which he appears with his brothers when he was only eight years or one that shows what remains of his family home.

"That started it, after those photos lies the secret of his uniqueness and his genius," says Saldivar, while comparing "One Hundred Years of Solitude" with "Don Quixote" or "The Odyssey".

"It asserts, works that transcend the local to purchase a universal aesthetic category."

Parallel to the exhibition at the Centro Hispano-Colombian will screen the documentary "Finding Gabo", the Colombian director Luis Fernando "Fred" 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 lived but one remembers and how one remembers to tell it," and the photograph can be the perpetrators of the sample, another means to capture those memories and closer to readers.

Via El Universal

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