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The Cultural Center Ramón Alonso Luzzy hosts until next August 31 two of the exhibitions that have been scheduled within the framework of this year's edition of the festival La Mar de Músicas, Special Latin American Sounds, within its section The Sea of ​​Art.
Specifically they are 'With the detectives savages', of Jose Luis Vidal Coy, and 'Liliana Maresca', of Marcos López.
Both have presented themselves on Monday to the media in a press pass that has been attended by the Councilor for Culture, David Martinez, the curator of the exhibition 'Fotoperformances' by Liliana Maresca, Carolina Parra, and the author of 'With the savage detectives', José Luis Vidal Coy.
'FOTOPERFORMANCES' BY LILIANA MARESCA
The work of Liliana Maresca developed and shone mainly during much of the period of Argentina's post-dictatorship, from the mid-1980s until the artist's death in late 1994, a victim of AIDS.
Artist of difficult classification, was an icon of the urban intervention in Argentina.
His early death did not stop him from continuing to inspire many other artists.
Ten of his performances, portrayed by his friend and also artist Marcos López, are exhibited until August 31 at the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center within the framework of the La Mar de Músicas de Cartagena festival, Special Latin American Sounds, where his spirit is reflected Critical and combative.
Liliana Maresca was one of the most important and controversial protagonists of the cultural scene of Latin America.
An artist difficult to classify, she performed a daring, powerful and very personal work, in which she put her body, most of the time naked, insistently in her work, and became an emblem of enthusiastic Bohemian porteña Of the eighties.
If something defines it is intensity, critical and combative spirit, and faith in transformation.
Transformations that she lived in the life and that lived of accelerated form also in its body, due to the AIDS that ended with her the 13 of November of 1994. She is an artist who used all the means of expression within her reach, and put her body To his art implied that there were no borders between his life and his production.
The works that are exhibited in La Mar de Músicas are ten 'photoperformances' recorded by his friend and photographer Marcos López.
Among them is a series of photographs taken by Marcos López in 1983 where the artist is seen interacting with his objects made with recycled elements, where it is evident the idea of ​​loading them with the sensual and provocative imprint of his naked body, covering a wide range Of emotional suggestions from erotic defiance, devotional attitude, tension, fragility or threat.
1984 is the photo that shows Maresca on the steps to the National Museum of Fine Arts, with a mask and can be read as a statement of principles about what may be the requirements and prejudices that condition access, particularly Of the young creators, to such consecrated instances.
In that same year he went from cultural criticism to politics.
The exhibition in Cartagena includes a photograph of when it organized the cycle in front of the Casa Rosada, headquarters of the Argentine National Government.
For this occasion Maresca selected a more severe clothing: cape, hat and dark glasses.
In the images, her body composure and her grim brow show her as a respectable lady.
Crossing a character that was in the antipodes of his personality Maresca challenged limits that have to do with appropriating the newly reconquered political participation.
At the end of 1983 the first democratically elected president took office after seven years of bloody military dictatorship.
In the Cartagena show you can also see two photographs recorded by Marcos López in 1993, where the sensuality of the naked artist appears resting on enormous portraits of genocides, faces and symbols of power, violence, money, corruption as Jorge Rafael Videla and Emilio Eduardo Massera.
The 'photoperfomances' by Liliana Maresca can be seen at Centro Cultural Ramón Alonso Luzzy until August 31 inside the art section of La Mar de Músicas.
Liliana Maresca (Avellaneda, Province of Buenos Aires, 1951 - 1994) is an artist of great importance who never had the recognition that her work demanded.
A singular representative of the Argentine optimism of the 80s, a critic of the Ménem period and chronicler of recent Argentine history, he died without being able to attend the inauguration of Frenesí, a retrospective exhibition of his work at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in 1994. Difficult classification, was one of the significant artists of the happening and urban intervention in Argentina.
'WITH THE WILD DETECTIVES', BY JOSÉ LUIS VIDAL COY
The project 'With the wild detectives' is an interpretation or photographic recreation of the almost homonymous novel of Roberto Bolaño.
During the three months of the summer of 2011 and the three of autumn of 2012, the author literally followed the steps of the protagonists of the work of the writer born in Chile, who grew up in Mexico and finally passed away in Catalonia.
The first part, 'What was Garcia Madero?' Recreates the adventures of the characters of the novel throughout the Federal District, that part of the great conurbation known as Mexico City that has become a world In itself: an island differentiated from the rest of the United Mexican States, characteristic, with its own norms and conditions, a foreign body in an immense country.
The second, 'Encounters in Sonora', consists of the physical and photographic tour of the places mentioned by Bolaño in the third part of his novel, which takes place in the northern, hot, desert state of Sonora bordering the United States of America. America, full of mountains, deserts and drought, and on the shore of the Sea of ​​Cortes, closed on the other side by the long peninsular language of Baja California.
The second part of the novel remains in between, with such a number of scenarios that to include it in the project would require a financing that the author does not believe that any bank would be willing to grant him.
The first and second part of this collection were exhibited alone in the gallery 'La Aurora' of Murcia in the winter of 2012 and the spring of 2013 respectively.
Now they are presented for the first time together in the General Archive of the Region of Murcia together with an audiovisual composed by a succession of photographs seasoned with music from Caléxico and from this moment until August 31 will remain in the Center Cultural Ramón Alonso Luzzy from Cartagena.
Jose Luis Vidal Coy (Murcia, 1954) graduated in Information Sciences (Journalism) at the Complutense of Madrid in 1977. It took almost 30 years to complete his doctorate (Murcia, 2006) but, in between, gave him time to be a correspondent And special envoy to Africa and the Middle East (and sometimes to Europe) from 1979 to 1994. From these strange places (Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, etc.) worked for Agencia EFE, Ser, El Globo, Geo, and finally Diario 16 Madrid until that deceased half took to the path of his self-destruction.
So 28 years after leaving escaped from Murcia returned to her, to settle as delegate of The Truth in Cartagena for almost six years.
Afterwards, life continued to wander and ended up leaving this newspaper, dedicating itself to digital media in Madrid as El Confidencial, Cuarto Poder, Público ... and to be an associate professor in the new Faculty of Communication and Documentation since 2002 and for 15 years.
In the last decade he has resumed his traveling hobby and his visual passion never satisfied by photography, varying in objective and putting the focus on an area unknown to him until 1998: America, Latin or not.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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