Signal Colombia brings to its screen the life of one of the most recognized Colombian artists in the French artistic field with Emma Reyes¸ the footprint of childhood, a series directed by Luis Alberto ‘Peto’ Restrepo, which has a luxurious cast.
Reyes’ works are exhibited in Spain, in the Unesco Popular Library of Latin America, in Washington and in the Périgueux library in France, where a large mural of the creator is preserved.
In recent years in his native country, where he is in debt in terms of recognition of his work, Spaces have also been opened to get to know his work, such as the Banco de la República Art Collection, which has three of them; the La Tertulia Museum in Cali and the Fundación Arte Vivo Otero Herrera, where much of his creation rests.
To these exhibitions, we now add the announcement of RTVC Sistema de Medios Públicos, of the premiere, this Sunday at 8:00 pm, of this series that in 13 half-hour chapters, recreates from fiction the first fifteen years of life of who would become the ‘godmother’ of many Colombian painters during their beginnings in Europe, among them Fernando Botero Y Luis Caballero.
This co-production of RTVC / Signal Colombia and Quintocolor made with resources from the MinTIC, which It was recorded at locations in Facatativá and Nemocón, at La Sabana Station and El Pórtico Restaurant., also represents RTVC’s determination to promote the Colombian audiovisual industry in complex times, as well as to highlight real people of great talent that make the country proud, such as Emma Reyes, who, despite her international artistic relevance, is little known in the world. country.
Nicole Santamaria, Ernest Benjumea, Indhira Serrano, Juan Sebastian Calero, Jennifer Steffens, Nórida rodriguez Y Juan Angel, among other renowned artists, accompany the debutants Luciana Garnica, Angie Ramirez Y Valeria Emiliani, which bring Emma to life at different times.
On the same Sunday, at 7:30 pm, prior to the first episode, the director and several of the actors will be on the talk show Connected with Álvaro García, to share details of the series with the public.
Set in Bogotá in the 1920s, this production narrates the harsh experience that Emma went through during her childhood, after her mother abandoned her at a train station, when she was only four years old.
From his birth he was the object of heartbreak and a prey of extreme poverty. Illiterate until she was 18 years old, as she was never in a classroom, she remained locked up, together with her sister, in a convent for 15 years, embroidering garments for borrowing families and members of the church.
However, the harshness of those early years was what made Emma Reyes a woman determined to break with the schemes of her time and what led her to escape to hitch a ride, seek other worlds. This is how he arrived in Buenos Aires and obtained a scholarship to study in Paris where he developed his innate talent. The squares and markets of the various Latin American countries through which he passed were etched in his mind to be later captured in drawings and paintings.
“In her work as a painter you could see her obsession with the tropics and in her works she showed her exuberance. She was also recognized for her figurative painting by capturing still lifes, nature and ordinary people ”, assures her friend and historian Alvaro Medina, one of the many with whom the production company spoke during the exhaustive investigation that led them to travel to France to meet friends and acquaintances of the artist, in the same place where she lived.
Emma exhibited her work in the world, moved in the art universe between France, Italy and Israel until she reached Mexico. Supported Fridha Kahlo in the organization of one of her last exhibitions, a friendly detail that forged a close relationship with the Mexican artist and her partner Diego Rivera.
Emma Reyes, the trace of childhood collects the contrast between adulthood and childhood, the very marked difference in social classes, constant abandonment, the weight of religious dogma, the self-discovery of femininity and sexuality; and the beginning of art in the hands of this artist.
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