This Thursday 31 May and throughout June, the Casa de la Cultura de Quilmes will host the exhibition "Borges Illustrated", the sample through a series of illustrations, He approaches the vast universe of the famous writer.The exhibition, organized jointly between the Museum of Humor and the Culture area of ​​the Municipality of Quilmes and which will be formally inaugurated from 18, account of different sections, such as the one that corresponds to the illustrations that accompanied his written books or the woodcuts made by Antonio Berni in “Leaves of grass”, Walt Withman's publication that Borges translated.

The drawings that Enrique Fernández Chelo created for the “New Tales of Bustos Domecq” also appear., work that Borges created together with Adolfo Bioy Casares.

On the other hand, two serigraphs that were part of the “Medio mundo” folder will be exhibited., that Carlos Páez Vilaró made as a tribute to that Montevideo tenement inhabited by descendants of the Afro-Uruguayan community and that Jorge Luis Borges prefaced with an excellent text titled “Los Morenos”.

The exhibition will also include some of the drawings and caricatures referring to the writer.. In this context, works by Hermenegildo Sábat and Andrés Cascioli appear.. In the latter case, the original of the drawing published in the magazine Humor Registered on the occasion of the Nobel Prize awarded to Adolfo Pérez Esquivel will be exhibited., simultaneously with the repeated refusal to award it to Borges by the Swedish Academy.

Visitors to the cultural site located on Rivadavia 383 You will also see the writer with his colleague Victoria Ocampo, in an ink by Luis Scafati, through the silkscreen reproduction of an etching by Ana María Moncalvo, to Borges and other notable patrons at the Café Royal Keller, that all of them frequented.

By last, The exhibition will feature a reproduction of the comic strip “Milonga de Orquídeo Maidana”, by José Massaroli, satirizing the famous “Milonga for Jacinto Chiclana” by Jorge Luis Borges, other drawings and vignettes by notable illustrators and a caricature sculpture, in the manner of Honoré Daumier, by Alfredo Sabat.

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Borges Illustrated exhibition opens