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The magic of Mali photographer Malick Sidibé returns to La Mar de Musicas.
Festival organizers have recovered small images that the African artist sold in the port city in 2001 and until late August shown in the exhibition's suitcase Malick, Pedreño House (Cajamurcia Cultural Center on the square of Icue .)
It is a tribute to Malick, who participated in the festival in 2001 and came with all its simplicity and a suitcase full of magic, has reminded the councilman of Culture, Rosario Montero.
The presentation of the exhibition was also attended by photographer Matthew à ngel Charris and deputy director of La Mar de Musicas, José Luis Cegarra.
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Malick Sidibé first set foot in Spain in 2001.
Participated in the art section of the Sea of ​​Music that year devoted a special to Mali.
One of the most important photographers of sub-Saharan Africa, Sidibé came to Cartagena dressed in robes and with his head covered by a cap of felt, and with suitcases full of portraits of young Malians did back in the sixties.
Night at the Torres Park Auditorium, home of the festival, opened his suitcase and sold copies of their photographs brought.
Years later, La Mar de Musicas recover these photographs and has made ​​the intervention Malick's suitcase which will be open at the Palace Pedreño Cartagena until 31 August.
In addition to the exhibition are photographs of Malick Sidibé in Cartagena, newspaper articles, books and other material on the great African photographer.
No photos of Malick Sidibé (Soloba, 1936), the years following the decolonization of the former French Sudan (Mali independent state was formed in 1960) would not exist in the memory of this sub-Saharan country of six million people.
Images taken by Sidibé, rescued from oblivion by André Magnin, one of the leading experts in contemporary African art, were exhibited for the first time in Spain in Cartagena for the festival La Mar de Musicas, in 2001.
It was also his first trip to our country.
Sidibé's photographs that brought the festival had nothing to do with the typical African landscape.
There was no hunger or pain or wild animals in the negative made by an artist who by then was 65.
In his portraits, the children of the bourgeoisie, a country that had just won independence, moving their hips to the rhythm of the twist or rock and roll, wearing bell-bottom pants, inspired by the movies and music that came from America .
There was no party or soiree worth his salt who was not invited.
Everyone wanted to be in the chamber Malick.
His serene presence, humility and kindness will be portrayed at this facility in honor of Malik Sidibé staffed through images passing through the Sea of ​​Music in 2001, where in addition to photographs of their presence in Cartagena meets Malik Sidibé's work that brought in your suitcase.
The exhibition runs until 31 August from 11:00 to 13:30 h., And from 19:00 to 21:00.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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