En los Otros Costados
Exilios de las Espa�as de 1936-39 en las
Americas
Adonde fue la Cancion?
On
the Other Coasts
1936-39 Spanish Exiles in the Americas
Where
Did the Song Go?
On view through September 15
This exhibition is a collaborative project of the
Permanent Observer Mission of Spain to the OAS and the OAS AMA | Art
Museum of the Americas, showcasing the cultural output generated in
the Americas as a result of the exchanges produced by Spanish exile
during the Spanish Civil War and the subsequent Francoist
dictatorship. It is important to note that this is not an exhibition
about exile per se, but about the artistic and intellectual products
of that exile. This project encompasses works of art, literature,
music, and cinema created by artists and intellectuals who migrated
with their families to the Americas during the Civil War and the
dictatorship, capturing their perspective, often laden with the
search for social justice, democracy, and peace.
The works
exhibited here reflect the world of these exiled artists who were
forced to put down roots in different countries of the Americas.
These artists represent many other Republican compatriots, defenders
of Spanish democracy, victims of exile who experienced this human
drama and found a new home on the American continent. As Neruda said
about the Spaniards of the rescue expedition of the old freighter
Winnipeg:
"I felt in my fingers / the seeds / of Spain / that
I myself rescued and scattered / over the sea, directed / to the
peace / of the prairies."
The opening of the American borders
to Spanish Republican exile meant a new life.
The exhibition
also includes works by other artists from the Americas and Spain
whose creations are closely influenced by the artistic aesthetics
generated.
The exhibition presents around twenty works of art
from the collections of the Art Museum of the Americas and the
Inter-American Development Bank, contextualized with fragments of
recordings from the PALABRA Archive of the Library of Congress of
the United States of America, along with scores and documents from
the era, safeguarded by the Columbus Memorial Library of the OAS.
This exhibition pays tribute to the victims of Spanish exile and
to the millions of compatriots who remained in Spain under
repression or were buried in mass graves but never forgotten.
This is a homage that seeks to protect democratic memory and
recognize the dignity of the victims of the Francoist dictatorship
through the recovery of the perspectives of exiled artists from and
about the Americas.
An exile composed of women and men who
contributed to strengthening the transatlantic bond between Spain
and the Americas from the perspective of the defense of human
rights, democracy, and peace.