Pablo Neruda comes to the Arab world in art exhibition

Morocco close to Pablo Neruda to Arab countries, whose language has not been translated into any of his works, through an exhibition in which artists from around the world pay tribute to Chilean poet with works inspired by his poems.

The National Library in Rabat exposed for a week, works in which the Chilean painter Roberto Matta , the Mexican David Alfaro Siqueiros and the Ecuadorian Oswaldo Guayasamin shape and color to the words of Nobel Prize for Literature .

"Neruda, poet unforgettable", designed as a tribute on the centenary of his birth, has ridden in the past four years and a score of towns works by artists from different countries and poems in which they are based, as well as texts about of life and work of the writer.

"It's a wonderful experience to reach an Arab country," said exhibition curator, Tito Gonzalez , who noted that although "Neruda had relations with the Eastern world and the countries of Europe , with non-Arab peoples, "and lamented that there was still no poet's book translated into Arabic.

The exhibition focuses on two of his works: " Spain in the heart, "the poet wrote as a criticism of the Spanish Civil War and in favor of the Republican side, and Heights of Machu Pichu , a hymn to the landscape surrounding these centenarians Peruvian ruins and the history they contain.

In sixty works of diverse styles, artists recreate these motives through hearts of varied textures, motifs Incas, vibrant colors and simple lines to the more abstract art, as in the case of French Alain Salevor , who explained that his canvas did not "enter the heart rather than in geometry." ls

With information informador.com.mx

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