FRANKFURT. SAMPLE ABSENCE AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE REASON THE BURNING
The phrase acts as Juan Gelman perfect blend for the emotions that shot in the Book Fair, the exhibition of the photographer Gustavo entrerriano Germano, and presentation of the book that compiles texts by writers victims of military dictatorship.
Noon slow drips. The autumn sun caresses the soul. An organ in the center of Frankfurt, we da long and hard to handle. A beautiful and sad melody with accordion in the background, over which hovers a patina of nostalgia in some Argentines, print an undulating rhythm to the walk on the pavement. The walls of the church of St. Paul, where the first German parliament in 1824 - are lined with photographs of the sample Absences, Gustavo Germano. These snapshots captured with poignant intensity dimension of state terrorism. The photographer who lives in Barcelona entrerriano photography losses from this elusive subject that is everyday life. There is a pair of images that all speak. Impressive. Atelman Clara Fink is in the dining room of his home. Smiles, standing. Next door is his son, blinded by the sun. On the flip-mirror image of that moment of happiness, the crack of time is drawn in the face that can no longer laugh. Clara has two wounds that are one and the same: his right eye is gone. Your child is not. That mother's hand rests on the back of an empty chair.
Germano, who has a missing brother, achieves a fruitful dialogue between past, present and absent; forms a tissue traversed by a tear moments that can only be reset from a position determined to reflect the microscopic, as if only with that gesture could shift Olympian avoid any kind of blow. When playing the same photo-scene, thirty years later, without family or friend disappeared, the presence of absence emerge with a clarity booster. This is a bottomless black hole. The photographer is asked, quite rightly, how someone did a job like this before during the opening of the exhibition and presentation of the reason ardent writers bilingual anthology of victims of dictatorship that includes texts by Miguel Angel Bustos, Roberto Carri, Haroldo Conti, Diana Guerrero, Hector Oesterheld, Roberto Santoro, Francisco Urondo and Rodolfo Walsh, and critical journalism and Horacio Gonzalez Rodolfo Mattarollo and Mario Goloboff, among others.
"This has made me Gustavo seems quite exceptional: he photographed the loss and I have had an impact," confesses Juan Gelman. I do not know the people he photographed, relatives of the disappeared, a dreadful word because it hides four processes (the kidnapping of unarmed people, the torture, murder and the disappearance of their bones), but I have had similar losses and believe that all those to whom this has happened to them are residents of the territories of pain. "Truancy has toured many countries, but the poet says," should be seen in eight "because it" shows a quietly what happened in Argentina in the most recent military dictatorship. "
Gelman states that has welcomed the publication of the bilingual anthology. The disappearance of the writers anthologized "was a pit in the continuity of the culture of Argentina, a cut that takes to close, are tissues that have long rebuild broken." The poet makes a striking example: the complete works of Paco Urondo was not published until twenty years after his de-saparición. A German-growing murmur that run the shows and chat, never thinking that is also presenting a book-mad poet. And you should see how the drop of the snippets of conversations broke the camel's patience of the poet, when asked "what happens" in a tone sharp. When the exceptional German racket gives way to silence, Gelman takes the basting of your thoughts. "I had the privilege of being co-write and struggle of two great poets, Francisco and Miguel Angel Bustos Urondo-and two great writers such as Haroldo Conti and Rodolfo Walsh. But there is more missing in many cases have been found poems written by young people. Nobody knows whether it might have become great poets, as well as 145 journalists are missing, the point is that names added each month, "says Gelman on the border of an emotion that robs words. "I am very shaken by this statement, I beg you to excuse the inconsistency." Germano hugs Juan and not let go until the flow of the impact of those images that speak, question and shake, relax. Eduardo
Jozami suggests that an anthology is about how to "combine the unity in diversity." Walsh figures, Urondo, Conti should be. And they are. But it also becomes imperative to save, not to return to "de-saparecer" - the poetry of Bustos and Santoro and the figure "very neglected" by Diana Guerrero, a sociologist and essayist, author of Roberto Arlt, the lone inhabitant, a fundamental work "It was like looking in retrospect Masotta with what would be the look of Piglia." Cultural Center director Haroldo Conti and author of an award-winning biography of Walsh mentioned the words "arbitrary" and "controversial" Carri-Isidro Velazquez: prerevolutionary forms of violence, which reflected a certain spirit of the '70s. "This anthology shows that we were not all alike and thought the same thing," he explains. This uniformity should be rethought a bit. Bustos was a militant Marxist PRT (Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores) and seeks to Marechal for you to do the prologue Vision children of evil, who rescues the metaphysical character of the poet. Bustos thought that poetry was a divine origin, but it was not good to resist militancy. "
mode of conceiving the anthology, the diversity of authors and thoughts, is connected with the forms of remembrance of the disappeared. "We have the right to think otherwise, we can again think about what those writers thought that today we pay tribute," he adds Jozami. The director of Casa Amèrica Catalunya, Antoni Traveria, retrieves a sanction that is in the air: the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo did not win the Nobel Peace Prize. But we sense that will soon come. Germano register your work that "continued presence of absence" that goes from the first pictures of mothers carrying their banners to reminders issued by Página/12, "ritual proposed by the newspaper group to see who we remember today." Mario Goloboff, motorized responsible for the anthology, discusses the importance that this book on the cultural fabric of Argentina. "By cutting their lives on state terrorism, joined the wound impossible to compensate for literature throughout Argentina. The deaths have deprived the rich culture and insurance contributions could be expected, in light of what they were doing in their teens and youth. "
Links Absences in Frankfurt:
- Page 12. Argentina - Revista Ñ. Clarin. Argentina - Clarin. Argentina
Group Exhibition Garden of the missing "Meyrin (Switzerland) To mark the 10 anniversary of Garden of the Missing, a space for remembrance and reflection on disappearance in the world, in the town of Meyrin, the responsible of that organized a collective space that includes eight cases / wallets of "absence" and work "DNA" of Martin Acosta "Traces of disappearance" of Helen Zout.
The inauguration was held on September 30 and will be on display until October 18.
photos inauguration Inauguration Cultural Center of Memory Haroldo Conti (former Esma) On September 18 opened "absence" in the CCMHC with the presence of the journalist, writer and director of CELS, Horacio Verbitsky, Taty Almeida of Madres de Plaza de Mayo - Founding Line, the coordinator of the National Memory Archive, Judhit Said, Representative of the Government of Catalonia in Argentina, Jordi Font, Director the CCMHC, Eduardo Jozami, author Gustavo Germano, representatives of the Association Regional Children Paraná and the National Register of Entre Ríos Truth
About 150 people joined the opening in which was also attended by the three authors of essays on memory projected in a room adjacent to the photo gallery of Conti: Ines Ulanowsky author of "pictures of you", Lucila Stay in "Archaeology of absence" and Helen Zout of "Traces of disappearances."
Note that this presentation marked the official opening of CCMHC, a spacious fully renovated space that occupies one of the buildings in the grounds of the former Esma.
Links:
- Page 12 - Argentina Time
Paraná Conference Organized by the Association regional Sons Paraná, together with the Autonomous University of Entre Ríos and the National Register Truth, Gustavo Germano gave a talk on Friday 24 September on "Representation of the missing political action through art since 1976"
Links:
- ONE Entre Ríos Journal
A year of his death, recalled this morning Mencho William Germano, one of the promoters of the refund of the identity of Sabrina Gullino, daughter Rachel Black, who gave birth to twins in clandestine maternity Paraná Military Hospital in 1978. 
