“807/36 recorded memories”, of the Argentine based in Galicia Xan Leira, testifies to the sufferings of his grandparents. You can visit at the Avellaneda Municipal Art Center
An original exhibition of engravings alluding to stories of victims of Franco can be visited in the Avellaneda Municipal Art Center. The sample is made on the basis of engravings, in order to preserve in memory part of its author’s own life, Xan LeiraArgentine artist based in Galicia, who deployed an important trajectory in the audivisual arts, with more than 50 documentaries produced.
The sample, entitled “807/36 recorded memories” It caused great attention in the Ángel Botello room, by Cangas do Morrazo, Pontevedra and in the Museum of Arts do Fold to Dixital stamp, Ribeira, Galicia. “807/36” refers to the number of the cause for rebuned rebellion against maternal grandparents of Leirawho resisted the Francoist survey of 1936. “The tribute and claim extends to thousands of people who systematically suffered repression for 40 years of dictatorship”considers the author.
The exhibition was inaugurated last Saturday, April 5 at the facilities of the CMA, Blue Sala, on San Martín 797 street in the center of Avellaneda and can be visited until Saturday, May 3.
The presentation consists of large format engravings, facilities, videos, artist books and a catalog where they write Adolfo Pérez EsquivelNobel Peace Prize; Néstor Goyanesimportant Argentine recorder and art critics of Galicia.
Through a powerful and evocative visual language, Leira He has developed a technique of manipulation of the role with which he has created and obtained prints of extraordinary dramatic force that manage to immerse ourselves in a universe of images that dialogue with the most genuine tradition of the engraving of denunciation and social agitation.
“With the engraving technique I have partially recovered the office of printer learned in the family printing press,” The artist tells. Leira He stops in his production throughout his life to consider that “The sensory and sensuality that emerges from the ink in its resounding and violent impact with my specially treated roles, give testimonial vigor to my graphic work that follows the testimonial footprint of my cinematographic productions”.
“In each of the 46 prints that make up this sample there is in stroke, echo, a legacy of that ancestral trade of carving stories in collective memory”complete Leira.
Source: Ambito
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