Argentina will celebrate fifty years since the coup of March 24, 1976, which resulted in a decree that resulted in the deaths of 30,000 people and trauma that still affects the country’s political, cultural and social life today.
This violence was also projected abroad: while Spain was on the rise of Francoism, there was an exile of Argentine artists – musicians, filmmakers, playwrights, writers, visual artists – and they ensured a still timid scene that created a decisive influence in our democratic culture, We analyze this color on these pages.
And here we go:
LETRAS. Criticism Humiliationa new book by Albanian philosopher Lea Ypi, who misinterpreted part of a family photograph in redes to reconstruct the political persecution of her abuela and challenge the official memory of the dictatorship.
ART. United by a unique cultural sensibility, sending exhibitions to the Museo Patio Herreriano and verses by Jorge Guillén, Esther Gatón and Núria Fuster prepare their thaumaturgy in the halls of this ancient Benedictine monastery of San Benito el Real in Valladolid.
THEATER. Argentinian director and actress Fernanda Orazi explores the scenic possibilities of the “nivola” published by Unamuno in 1914. An existentialist proposal that, in Nave 10, reflects on the human condition, the boundaries between reality and fiction, and the impossibility of understanding the plot of our own vidas.
MUSIC. To celebrate their 20th anniversary, Triángulo de Amor Bizarro returns with their seventh album, my cathedral in which they are transformed into a perfect triangle. If in the previous part it sounded like a bull in a cave, now they are walking through a forest where some light is coming in.
CINEMA. Tras movies like you see me, Los europeans and the last series Animal, In it, Madrid director Víctor García León continues his exploration of comedy High capacities. The marriage in which Marián Álvarez and Israel Elejalde lived took place in a social elevator thanks to the entry of their son into a very exclusive secular school.
SCIENCE. Science historian Sánchez Ron contrasts mied in the present (denial, IA) with refuge in history, using two books on the media and the scientific revolution to better think about today and the future.
All this and much more in the next issue of El Cultural. On sale from this weekend, March 20, in stores for €2.50. Available a day in advance for digital PDF subscribers. Subscribe here for 25 euros per year.
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