Monday, March 05, 2007

Gabo

"El Tiempo", the most important newspaper in Colombia, wrote yesterday that Gabriel García Márquez, the only Colombian who has been awarded with the Nobel Prize, was going to celebrate four anniversaries at the same time: his 80th birthday, 60 years since his first tale was published, 25 since Nobel Prize and 40 years since the first edition of "Cien Años de Soledad" (One Hundred Years of Solitude). Yesterday in Madrid, there was an uninterrupted reading of this book, his most important work, as a homage to him, the most important novelist in Colombian history, and one of the most influential in Latin American literature.

Well, things like this are usual in this world without gods. We, wretched citizens of the postmodern society, have to worship mortals -pretending they're not-, there not being something better.

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Sunday, November 12, 2006

In the photo

I was looking some photos from an exposition about German photography in a local library. Stopping at one of them, "Round table" (Martin Liebscher, 2005), I've got the impression that I was part of the picture. It shows some men on a conference; in the room they were in there is a round table, some of the people are sitting around it. Just at the right there's some guy showing a video to the others on a TV screen; he also has access to a video camera at his right side. There are stairs to the next floor; some of the guys are standing there. At the left side we find some books.

But the feature that caused the effect I mentioned was that the floor and the ceiling don't fix completely into the picture, so I had the impression that they continued under my feet and above my head respectively. I guess that would be the photographer's intention. But it shouldn't be a rare case that artists make their works just to make other people realize how their perception constitutes the world they live in.

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