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"Saramago: "Dio non ha letto Kafka".
The Nobel presents the Sofía Gandarias exhibition
dedicated to the Czech writer
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"Kafka The Visionary": DirectGroup Brings Spanish
Painter Sofia Gandarias To Leipzig
Leipzig, 18 de marzo de 2010
DirectGroup Bertelsmann collaborated with the Spanish
Embassy to bring the famous Spanish painter Sofia
Gandarias to the Leipzig Book Fair. Last Sunday the
artist opened this year's Club Bertelsmann " Jüdische
Lebenswelten " (Jewish Contexts) series with an
exhibition under the heading "Kafka the Visionary."
Guilt and powerlessness, light and shadow, pain and
death are the themes Sofia Gandarias explores in this
exhibition. In thirty paintings about the life and work
of the writer Franz Kafka, the artist interprets the
texts of the Jewish author, which she works into her
paintings based on a precise knowledge of the work.
"Kafka gives the horror of power in the 20th century a
face and he is also a prophet of the 21st century,” said
Gandarias in her speech at the well-attended opening
ceremony held on Sunday in the banquet hall of Leipzig’s
new Ariowitsch- Haus center for Jewish culture. The
artist explained that for her a commemoration is not
just a remembrance of the past, but always a projection
into the future too. "The allegory speaks in my
paintings as well as in the works of Kafka. I have given
symbols a movement and I do not know if they have
overwhelmed me," she said, and quoted her late friend
Primo Levi: "We do not want to live and tell, but live
in order to tell!"
GERNIKA
26 april 1937 · 26 april 1999
GERNIKA MUSEOA
I
have always wanted to paint a tryptych on Gernika, but
for a long time I felt unable to do so... Two years ago
I realised the moment had finally come.
What 1 saw as a child growing up in Gemika in the
sixties was a town built by the Agency for
War-Devastated Regions. The victors of the Spanish Civil
War had given us, the people of Gernika, a new town,
something which called to mind Mussolini's public works.
It is those who win wars who write history. We , the
vanquished, were left with our tree.
The Gernika tryptych is my own cry against something
which should never happen again. On 26th April1937 the
Condor Legion dropped heavy incendiary bombs on Gernika
(the sacred city of the Basque people and the
traditional symbol of their liberties) and blood rained
down from the sky (in the centre of the painting), and
gunned down the towns people with the utmost brutality
as they fled fram the burning
town.
(...........)
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EXPOSICIÓN EN ROMA DE "New York 11/9"
La Directora de la Real Academia de España en Roma,
Charo Otegui Pascual presentó con ocasión del seminario
"L’Immagine del nemico" la Exposición de Sofía Gandarias
de NewYork 9\11, en Roma: Piazza San Pietro in Montorio,
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Paris:
On May 18th, Sofía Gandarias is decorated like Chevalier
des Arts et des Lettres in the mythical Palais Garnier
in Paris by the President of the Bibliothéque Nationale,
M. Jean Noël Jeanneney in the ceremony and delivery of
its pictures "Picture of Nureyev" and "the Fire bird" to
the Musée of l'Opéra by the "Fundación Universitaria de
España".
Spoleto:
Exposition 9/11 prolongé en Rocca Albornoziana de
Spoleto avant le succès du public et du critique.
Chelsea International Fine Art Competition
Agora Gallery is the proud sponsor of the Chelsea International Fine Art Competition, which offers contemporary artists the opportunity to show their original art at one the most acclaimed juried art shows in Chelsea, New York’s art galleries district.
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