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Buenos Aires’ “House of Santa Fe” art gallery hosted on Thursday evening a dialogue where the timeless poetry of Jorge Luis Borges was brought to life against the backdrop of vivid Moroccan paintings.
At the close of an exhibition of Moroccan artists, held at the initiative of the Moroccan Embassy in Argentina, author Santiago de Luca, accompanied by Pablo Guastavino on guitar, lent his voice to Borges’ verses, weaving a delicate thread between Argentine literature and Moroccan visual arts.
Before paintings depicting scenes of fantasia, female silhouettes performing ancestral gestures and medina gates, De Luca’s reading rhythm immerses the audience in a unique poetic and pictorial universe.
The merger between Borges’ words, the magic of paintings from Morocco, and the harmonious sound of the guitar lead the public through a two-world journey: Borges’, marked by the labyrinths of memory and time, and Moroccan painters’, where a colorful aesthetic of conviviality, celebration, and tradition unfolds.
The audience, made of art lovers, academics, and diplomats, was enchanted by this poetic exchange. Each poem was mirrored in a painting, as words and pigments conversed across the Atlantic.
The recital opened with the poem “La Cuarteta,” in which Borges muses whether he could have been “a subject of Yaakoub Al-Mansour.” Then came the poem “Ajedrez,” a metaphor for human destinies on the chessboard of the universe, offering a vibrant contrast between the geometric order of chess and the energy emanating from Tbourida paintings.
Borges’ other poems (Elegia and El Ciego), read in a theatrical voice by Santiago de Luca, transported the audience to the lively spaces of a Moroccan medina, bathed in bright colors.
Beyond the artistic atmosphere felt across gallery, the event embodied a symbolic encounter between two imaginations. Borges, who evoked Yaakoub Al-Mansour in his verses, was welcomed, even enveloped, by contemporary Moroccan paintings.
Paintings on display in this gallery since July 10 are by Moroccan visual artists Youssef Ohmid, Hicham Alaoui, Moh Ahmed, Zanoubia, Ahmed Chebak, Rabie Ababbsa, and Hamid Yasar.
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