“Macondo, The World of Gabriel García Márquez” a photography exhibition by Fausto Giaccone at Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP) > 9th October to 2nd November 2015

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9th October : 7:00 pm Add to Calendar 09/10/2015 19:00 09/10/2015 20:30 Asia/Kolkata Opening of “Macondo, The World of Gabriel García Márquez” a photography exhibition by Fausto Giaccone Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2015/10/macondo-world-of-gabriel-garcia-marquez.html Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP), New Delhi - 110001 DD/MM/YYYY - Inauguration
10th October to 2nd November : 
Tuesday to Friday from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. 
Saturdays & Sundays from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Mondays - Closed

Entry : Free

Venue : Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP), New Delhi - 110001
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Metro : Nearest Metro Station - 'Rajiv Chowk' (Yellow Line and Blue Line)
Area : Connaught Place (CP)

Event Description : “Macondo, The World of Gabriel García Márquez” a photography exhibition by Fausto Giaccone.

Art statement: “Twenty-five years ago my job as a photojournalist took me to Colombia for the first time. To find a way for an access route to this country, I returned to Gabriel García Márquez, and I chose “One Hundred Years of Solitude” as a virtual guide. In that book, I found everything. Not only the best contemporary Colombian literature, but also its topography, its history, its traditions and its pain, its light and its shadows. Since then, several photographic assignments for various magazines gave me the opportunity to investigate the close relationship between the Country itself and the literary world of the Colombian Nobel winner. In 2002, after reading “To Live To Tell It”, the volume of the author’s memoirs, that I started to think seriously about the project which led to the book “Macondo, The World of Gabriel García Márquez”. I decided to try to travel through the places of his novels and his life, to let my eyes interpret freely what appeared before me. Giving up the tools I was used to for many years as a photojournalist, the color and 35mm, I went back to a medium format camera with black and white film. I went back to ‘60s gear, but to work without nostalgia in today’s world.” (Fausto Giaccone)

About the photographer: Fausto Giaccone holds a degree in Architecture but has always worked as a freelance photographer since he began documenting the most important events of 1968 in Italy. He has reported from around the world for the most important Italian and international magazines, dealing with social issues, landscape and architecture. Since 1995 he has collaborated with the photo agency Anzenberger in Vienna. He has exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions, including ‘The Battle of Valle Giulia’, (American Academy, Rome 2008), ‘Macondo, The World of Gabriel García Márquez , (Corigliano Calabro Fotografia 2013). His main monographs photo books are ‘Una storia portoghese’, (Focus / Randazzo 1987), on the agrarian reform in Portugal after the Carnation Revolution of 1974 and ‘Volti di Cavallino Treporti’, (Edifir, 2013), a portrait of a territory in the Venetian Lagoon.

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