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Soloexhibition
"Poet in New York"
Cafe BESARA, Rhodes
8-22 July 2000

text also available in Greek

Introduction

The text that follows was
written by the artist, as a prologue
to the exhibition’s catalogue.


In June of 1929 Lorca landed in America and stayed in New York until March of 1930 for English studies at Columbia University. The poems of that period were firstly presented in 1932 during a series of lectures that Lorca gave in various cities of Spain and South America. Those poems were published under the general title ”Poet in New York”, four years after the poet’s sudden death, that is, in 1940. A completed publication in Greek came about in 1993. (Smili Publications).

Lorca, in a state of love distress caused by the young sculptor Emilio Alarden and under the accusation of being a “traditional - not modern poet” from his friends Salvador Dali and Bunuel (due to the well-known since those times “Romancero Gitano"), expresses his emotional pain by using an unbound verse, a free way of writing. At these poems, Lorca blames the alienated cities, the madness of stock markets, the Protestants’ ethics, the Pope and fascism.

Lorca is “singing” the social injustice against black people and reaches to a definite anti-americanism. However, the “path” that leads him to a political denunciation is -again- the love suffering that is always present; the love pain as an introduction to death.

Angelos Spartalis..
Rhodes, July 2000..

1. EL REY DE HARLEM
___(page 41)

2. 1910-INTERMEDIO
___(page 19)

3. MUERTE
___(page 133)

5. NUEVA YORK
___(page 169)___

4. AMANTES ASESINADOS
___POR UNA PERDIZ
___(page 151)

6. ASESINADO POR EL CIELO
___(page 17)

7. LEJOS DE LA ESCULTORICA
___SAPIENCIA DEL CABALLO
___(page 251)

8. MERIENDAN MUERTE LOS BORRACHOS
___(page 123)

9. DANZA DE LA MUERTE
___(page 61)


All paintings: 30x40cm, 2000, oil-pastel on paper. The page numbers refer to the book  "Poet in New York",   F.G.Lorca, Smili Publications, Athens 1993.