This Thursday 12 In May, the Enrique Larreta Spanish Art Museum will inaugurate the exhibition “Curiosos” and the sound work “Vos, I and the time we live together” in the gardens of the traditional Buenos Aires compound.

The activities are planned for 17 hours in the museum located on Avenida Juramento 2291, all under the organization of the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires.

It is worth remembering that this year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the venue, occurred on 12 October 1962. In commemoration, the exhibition “Curious” will be presented, composed of an important selection of artistic and documentary heritage that includes original illustrations, old books, first editions, manuscripts, objects, photographs and dedicated volumes.

further, in the museum garden, the work “sound Vos” will be inaugurated, me and the time we lived together”, made by the artist Gabriela Blanco. Participants will be able to access the installation by scanning QR codes with their cell phone that will direct them to audios. There will be 5 posts where participants mix the vision of the garden and the sound experience. The work is the second part of an investigation into love that the artist carries out..

Enrique Larreta (1873-1961) constitutes a singular figure: Writer, diplomat and collector, In his last years he dedicated himself to painting, and even dabbled in the cinema; going through the theater, genre in which he sublimated his histrionic personality. Larreta was a precursor of the current of thought that, towards the Centennial of our homeland, advocated a return to Spanish roots. His novel The Glory of Don Ramiro (1908), acted as a kind of manifesto.

Parallel to its collection of Spanish art, Larreta was forming his library. There are some interesting pieces from it., as the executions of nobility, documents certifying the authenticity of a hidalgo, some on parchment and illuminated with figures and shields. Also old volumes, most related to the history of Spain, and that served the writer as a substrate for his creations.

Larreta's work inspired many artists, but perhaps it was Alejandro Sirio who best interpreted his world and aesthetics. Proof of this are his illustrations for La Gloria de don Ramiro, from the Viau y Zona publishing house, of 1929.

Museum's temporary rooms will display original manuscripts, photographs of the time, old books and documents, which attest to Larreta's literary work and his political activity as ambassador to France in 1910-1916.