The Buenos Aires Antique Book Fair celebrates Julio Cortazar

2024-09-11 19:34:44

With a change of headquarters and a return to the building on the former Kirchner Cultural Center, the Argentine Antiquities Dealers Association present the seventeenth edition of the Buenos Aires Antique Book Fairwhich will take place in Plaza Seca, from 18 to 22 September, from 2 to 8 pm

This year the focus of the exhibition will be on the famous writer Julio Cortazar110 years after his birth and 40 years after his death. On the same day of the opening, from 3 to 7 pm, the celebration day “CUTTING TO ASSEMBLE” will take place in the Hall of Honor, with participation from Liliana Heker, Ivonne Bordelois, Silvia Hopenhayn, Mariana Iglesias, Eugenia Zicavo and Lucio Aquilanti, in ongoing conversations and dialogue.

This first instance of the literary meeting will end with a dance performance based on stories from the famous author “hopscotch”. The Fair will be formally opened at 7:30pm and authorities from the Cultural Center and ALADA will be present. At the end there will be a tour around the stands of the 22 participating exhibitors, all members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Argentina and guests.

He died in Paris on February 12, 1984 and was born on August 26, 1914 in Ixelles, Belgium, author “Bestiary” and “62 models together” He will also have his own exhibition. In the exhibition you can see the author’s manuscripts, first editions and dedicated copies, photographs and documents. There will also be a series of smart films, organized by the Cultural Center which will be integrated with this year’s programmes.

As special guests, the “Two Friends Edition” of illustrated books and especially of the General Archives of the Nation (AGN), which for the first time will accompany antiquarian professionals with an example of replicas of its collection of documents and the dissemination of its activities and services.

Among the cultural activities of the Fair again will be the Workshop Spacein which artists and craftsmen from attractive fields such as restoration, bookbinding, papermaking, printing and illustration, as well as publishing, engraving and calligraphy, take part. The National University of San Martín (UNSAM) It will also be part of the Fair which will showcase its range of related careers. Alongside the Workshop Space is a sample of historical objects linked to writing implements.

In this 2024 edition of the Fair, the Argentina Library for the Blind (BAC)which celebrates the centenary of its creation. Finally, Thursday, September 19, at 6 pm, Emilio Perinathe director of the AGN; Liliana BarelaUnder Secretary for the Nation’s Cultural Heritage; Pablo Gaspi, fiscal assistant of the City Justice, and Roberto Vega, President of ALADA, they will talk about the relationship between the collection and the cultural heritage in a gathering in the Hall of Honor.

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