Bulgaria is the first country where a unique collection of postcards – personal correspondence of the greatest Spanish poet and playwright of the 20th century, Federico García Lorca – will be shown.
The exhibition “Postal Geography. The cards of the García Lorca and De los Ríos families” will be opened at the Cervantes Institute on April 4 and will be available to the Bulgarian public until May 20, 2012, after which the world tour of the exhibition continues in New York, Dublin and London. 124 original postcards – written, sent, received and collected, became public for the first time and are an invaluable testimony to the era and to the life of Federico García Lorca.At a time when it was postcards that were used on a daily basis, as the main means of communication, this correspondence reveals extraordinary details about Federico’s work, about war, exile, travels and, above all, about Lorca’s friendships with the prominent Spanish family De los Rios, with Luis Buñuel, with Salvador Dali and his sister Ana Maria Dali.
Lorca is a major figure in Surrealism and the European avant-garde. He is one of the brightest European artists of the beginning of the 20th century, who left a significant mark in almost all the arts of the era: music, drama, poetry, fine arts. He is associated with the “generation of 1927”, which also includes Pablo Neruda, Vicente Widobro, Jorge Luis Borges. Today, Lorca is the most read Spanish poet of all time, and his works have been translated into dozens of languages.
The official opening of the exhibition is scheduled for April 4, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. On the occasion of the opening, the curator of the exhibition, Cecilia Gandarias, will arrive in our country.
The exhibition is part of the series of events at the Cervantes-Sofia Institute “All about Lorca” dedicated to the great Spanish poet.
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