Recently I visited Korea to present a selection of pieces from my series FIAT LUX. This exhibit Took place as part of the international Latin American art festival BORDERLESS GENERATION organized by the Korea Foundation, the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Latin American Embassies in Korea. In my case I was invited and sponsored by the Embassy of Guatemala in Korea. There was one artist per country. It was very interesting to meet with coleagues from El Salvador, Colombia, Panama and Venezuela who were there to install the work or make a performance. I was invited also to give a talk on historic memory at the Center for the Korea Peace Museum in Seoul. I also had the chance to visit an exhumation site next to the city of Gongju where a forensic team was working on the remains of 350 political prisoners killed by the South Korean army during the war. There I did an intervention with my piece SO THAT SHALL KNOW .
The source of the puppets is very old, so old that it is difficult to pinpoint the time of onset. There are records of them in ancient civilizations, Egypt, China, Asia, Rome, Greece. The truth is that these figures or dolls generate a great attraction for moving them and for viewers, and both children and adults. Currently, its use may not be as frequent but every time a proposal is made to tell stories with them is always welcome. Cause in us a sort of hypnotism, from the moment they appear can not stop looking at them and enter their world, is so magical to stop watching the puppeteer's arm and that figure comes to life with their own emotions. In our roles played numerous characters in stories created theatrical pleasure. "Let there be light" has a desire to play in every encounter with the public. Puppets neighborhoods
to the planned program with free admission through the auspices of the Ministry of Culture of the Municipality Marcos Juárez, Sabatini get to the neighborhood.
Last week we had to stop because the days before had rained and the grass was wet and blowing wind and cold, can happen in all events organized outdoor time surprise us and not with us. But it was Sunday seven beautiful sunny day ... in the land between the streets and Rawson Mitre several groups of adults were playing bocce ball and ran kindly for us to start. The spectators were arriving, some residents sat watching from the door of their homes and BECOME LIGHT presented its third function of Legends continuing rally in the neighborhood of puppetry, held for the first time in our city and local production.
we would like cherish the comments of the boys on Sunday, and thus have a large chest filled with witty phrases:
- Dress! I told you there were two women inside! exclaimed a girl at the end of the work after coming out to greet us outside the altar ...
- Toads have yellow spots and brown, not red! said another boy. - Yes, but there is another class called rococo toads do have some red spots ... said the narrator.
- When did you return? a small group of girls shouted greetings as we were with the truck loaded with teatrino and puppets.
also remember what I said a very confident boy at the end of the function in the Lake Northwest:
- I want to see the "worm"!
- Must be the serpent , I whispered to my companion in the ear ...
- How toad history told us the womb! Alberdi said in the school ...
Many, many sentences at the end of each function Maricel Genna-mate Di creative and hardworking - and me, we're repeating on the way home and laugh with joy that you have stopped something in these boys, having shared a magical time.
Next Sunday in the neighborhood of Villa El Panal, in Centenary Square, weather is with us, 19:30 hours the curtain. We wait.
Comello by BECOME LIGHT