Rafael A. Osuba – Co-Curator
Founder / Artistic Director
The Uncertainty of Living in a Post Realist World – English / Spanish PDF File Here
This exhibit is co-curated by: RAFAEL A. OSUBA, Founder of EL QUIXOTE FESTIVAL, Artistic Director of Artist Studio Project, cultural producer, visual artist, storyteller, arts advocate and self proclaimed Quixote!
“This is a special tribute to Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
“I could not be happier with the response and help that we have received from a very diverse group of people, artists.
WE ARE SO EXCITED TO CELEBRATE THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PUBLICATION OF
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE, (CIEN AÑOS DE SOLEDAD) THE MASTER WORK OF
NOBEL LAUREATE GABRIEL GARCÍA MARQUÉZ (GABO) AND ONE OF THE TOP 10 BOOKS EVER WRITTEN, WITH A SERIES OF WORKSHOPS, CULTURAL, LITERARY, ARTISTIC, AND CULINARY EVENTS.
This exhibit forms part of the 2nd Annual EL QUIXOTE FESTIVAL, which celebrates the 400 Year Anniversary of “El Quijote” a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra two parts; “El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha” 1605 & “El Ingenioso Caballero Don Quijote de la Mancha”1615, while placing a special emphasis on artistic creations of local and international artists.
Genres such as visual arts, literature, opera, music, dance, theatre, film, gastronomy along with various academic events are part of the seventh month long festival (September 29, 2016, April 23, 2017).
Additional goals are to broaden the artistic landscape in North Carolina, reach new and more diverse audiences, to build relationships, share knowledge, learn and build consensus.
Special Thanks to our featured artists: Nico Amortegui, Luis Ardila, Cornelio Campos, Ernesto Hernández, Socorro Hernandez-Hinek, Zonia Piedad Herrera León, Noe Katz, Sherri Leeder, Gustavo Leon, Roberto Negret, Saba Taj and Antoine Williams. The Durham Arts Council, Miguel Rojas-Sotelo, Iván Granados-Hay, Margaret DeMott, Susan Tierney, Pavelid y su Grupo, Takiri Folclor Latino, Michelle Osuba, Rafael Osuba Jr., Gabrielle Kahela-Osuba, Lielani Kahela-Osuba and all those that have helped to make this event possible.
CREATE YOUR OWN REALITY
“I choose to create my own reality, if that makes me delusional or mad so be it.
Just because others are unable to visualize what you can clearly see does not make it fantasy; for you have the power to decide through which lens to see your world.” Rafael A. Osuba ©2015
The Uncertainty of Living in a Post Realist World
Miguel Rojas-Sotelo, Rafael A. Osuba – MACONDO – A JOURNEY THROUGH MAGICAL REALISM 2017
Living in a post-fact society is like living in Macondo. A world full of wonders and beyond reality; where we only expect magic and uncertainty. Who would have imagined this? After the consolidation and the consensus of most of the things science and history has presented and smack in the middle of the most profound revolution of the democratization of information and knowledge, we are back to a galvanized state of things.
Now, more than ever, we live yet again in a highly polarized, segmented and even more isolated world. No time is given to secure facts, only for ideology and a civilization clash that puts us back to the post-war years of the 20th century. This is also happening in the world of the arts, in literature, and music. There seems to be a certain compression of time and space, where the markets are kings and the artists and producers are their servants.
In the impossibility of framing any and all of the genres in artistic creation today, we have decided to pay homage to MAGICAL REALISM, a style in literature and visual arts that amazes us for its ability of creating the un-conceivable, within the realm of the existing. A style that is most likely realist, open for enjoyment and understanding, a dimension of wonder, the uncanny, the alien, and mad, shared in a soothing way.
Fifty years ago, Gabriel García Márquez published what is considered the cornerstone, and the most recognizable literary piece of this genre; One Hundred Years of Solitude. Today, at the beginning of 2017, in North Carolina, in the South of the United States of America a group of diverse artists open for us the next one thousand four hundred sixty days of uncertainty in the land of the possible.
As we view the works let’s remember that this realism is not about the impossible, but about the plausible, sometimes about wonder and other times about demise…
