Thursday the Museo de Arte Popular José Hernández will inaugurate a new exhibition, "Mate and facón. Poetry collection gauchesca a la criolla ", dedicated to these icons of history Argentina.

The opening will be from the 18 headquarters located on Avenida del Libertador 2373, where parts corresponding entirely to the assets of the MAP will be exhibited, mostly from the collection of Carlos Daws Creole (1870 – 1947).

These creations are the work of outstanding craftsmen masters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, who employed various techniques and materials, which they were reflected in their achievements.

Mate and facón are two inseparable objects of the Creole world view. On the one hand, mate, in terms of space open to fraternal and knife, indispensable companion for working life, eat and defend themselves.

Gaucho poetry in friendship breaks as a third mate rituals and facón and manifests itself in sharing a dialogue barley and accompanying knife edge in danger of loneliness.

The sample cured Juliana M. Lozada and Laura Hernandez MAP, It is based on the assay Leonel Kodnia, "Between barleys and desertions: facón mate and as figures of friendship ", Hernandez presented at the conference poet, journalist and lawmaker, organized by the Faculty of Philosophy, Arts and Oriental Studies at the Universidad del Salvador in 2017.

On the other hand, -from Thursday 16- guided the curators carry forward and also the goldsmith Mauro Sabbatini will demonstrate chiseled metal Wednesdays and provide an open workshop during the day of Tradition visits, Saturday 10 of November.

The exhibition will be from Tuesday to Friday 13 a 20 or on weekends and holidays from 10 a 20. With respect to entries, They have cost 30 pesos (except Wednesday that no admission is charged).