The script for “The Andalusian Dog”, by Buñuel and Dalí, is also on display.
Until March 31 of next year you can visit, at the National Librarythe exhibition “A wave of dreams. Experiences of surrealism in Argentina”, which exhibits books, magazines, drawings and personal documents of different poets and artists who They trace the trajectory of the surrealist movement in Argentina.
The National Library has books and magazines in which various artists created variations of the surreal vision, as well as local periodicals that spread European surrealism. These pieces were enriched, for this exhibition, by archives and private collections.
At the opening ceremony, William Daviddirector of Culture of the National Library, said: “We never know if surrealism deserves to be limited to a historical period; we can talk about emulations, parodies, criticism, copying; all that complex link that dependent countries we have with the central cultures. But there is no doubt that surrealism is part of Argentine culture.”
Mauro Haddadcurator of the exhibition, added that it is “a chronological journey, although in the history of the surrealism in Argentina There are jumps and discontinuities that we also try to reconstruct and explain. There is the first Argentine surrealist magazine ‘That‘, which had two numbers in 1928 and 1930and was carried out by a group that gathered around Aldo Pellegrini, the most important promoter of surrealism poetry in our country. Since that publication, many others emerged. magazines in the late 40’s, 50’s and 60’s: ‘Cycle‘, ‘From scratch‘, ‘Letter and Line‘, ‘Boa‘, ‘Zero‘, ‘The wheel‘ and ‘Talisman‘. They were created and edited by poets who also wrote their own poetic work. Some of them were Aldo Pellegrini, Enrique Molina, Francisco Madariaga, Julio Llinás, Juan José Ceselli, Juan Antonio Vasco, Carlos Latorre, Olga Orozco, Miguel Ángel Bustos and Jacobo Fijman.”
A copy of the magazineIdyll‘, from 1949, behind a display case, which displays one of those photomontages that Grete Stern made to narrate the dreams of the readers, in this case of a woman standing on a planet in outer space. Also, although it is not an Argentine piece, an authentic relic for this movement is on display: the script of the film “The Andalusian dog” with text and drawings Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí.
“Don’t say: it’s absurd. It would be absurd” either “Open the door, the only door. The door of the dream”, are some phrases in giant typography that can be read on the dark blue wall, as soon as you enter the room on the third floor of the National Library, surrounded by illustrations of Máximo Fiori: men with animal heads, marine beings, children inside flowers.
Source: Ambito
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