Listen to A tour of Easter in Zaragoza through its posters (04/01/2021) – Hoy por Hoy Zaragoza in Play SER
Behind this exhibition is the Association for the study of Holy Week and also him photographer and brother Jorge Sesé, who has spent years searching through different files to find them. With him and with Ricardo Navarro, From this association we go through the panels that summarize this journey through time and how these posters have evolved.
This search was started by Jorge Sesé in 2009, when the Zaragoza City Council chose one of his photos to announce the events of that year.
“From that moment on, I believe that restlessness to know what posters had been before, to see historically what evolution there had been“explains Sesé.”I start to investigate and search and I verify that there is hardly any material and it is very scattered. “He continued later with the owner of the La Pasión bar, one of the almost obligatory places in the city for any brother.
Finding these works has not been an easy task, since they were not kept with any care, being an advertisement with an expiration date: it was not given any value. So much so that Jorge Sesé has not been able to find those from 1954 and 1955, nor those between 1962 and 1974.
The first poster in the exhibition dates from 1949. As he explains, “really, it is the one that starts the theme of the Holy Week poster in Zaragoza”. In fact, “a year before the Board of Brotherhoods was founded and with the help of the Hermandad de la Sangre de Cristo, they have already decided to start promoting – as was already being done in other cities in Spain – Holy Week through a poster “.
Before that year they did not exist: Brotherhood of the Blood of Christ Until then, he placed an advertisement on the doors of churches calling for various acts, but nothing more.
The sample, which can be seen until April 11, not only recovers our memory but also allows us to see the evolution of the arts over the decades. “Until 1962 they were all pictorial, with large well-known firms in the city, and then it evolved towards photography.”
A walk during these days through the history of Holy Week in Zaragoza, walking through Independencia.
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