Mario Muchnik - Literary Portraits
DATES:29th April-29th May
VENUE:Exhibition Room (Ground Floor), Instituto Cervantes Dublin, Dublin 2
TIMES: Monday to Thursday from 2pm to 7pm. Saturday from 10am to 1pm.
TELEPHONE: Tel.: +353 1 631 15 00
FREE ADMISSION

Organised by:
INSTITUTO CERVANTES DUBLIN
University of Oviedo (Spain)
In collaboration with:
Spanish Embassy in Ireland


Mario Muchnik. Literary Portraits
Literary Portraits is the first half of the photographic project Stolen Moments (Instantes Robados) from Mario Muchnik. Literary Portraits, brings us into the physical presence of creators of the stature of Rafael Alberti, Francisco Ayala, Ana María Mature, John Cage, Simone de Beauvoir, Jorge Luis Borges, Carmen Martín Gaite, Julio Cortázar, and Gabriel García Márquez, to name but a few. Smiling, perplexed, melancholic faces. Faces instilled with words. Aside from portraying the author's features, each photograph leaves an indelible trace of a meeting, capturing a single moment. Mario Muchnik has taken these portraits of authors over a period of many years, without any special lighting effects, without any additional decorations, unless at the wishes of the author.

Mario has worked as a physician in Italy, photography and editor in London, collections director at Robert Laffont editorial in Paris, founder of Muchnik Editores (Muchnik Editors) in 1973, and Head of Seix Barral (1982-1983) in Barcelona, Head of Anaya & Mario Muchnik (1991-1997) in Madrid, author of Miguel Ángel de cerca (Miguel Angel up close), Un bárbaro en París"(A barbarian in Paris), Mundo judío(Jewish world) , Einstein, and the memoirs "Lo peor no son los autores" (Authors aren't the worst) and Banco de pruebas(Test bank / Bank of samples). He is currently the owner, director and sole administrator of the Taller de Mario Muchnik (Mario Muchnik Workshop) in Madrid.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue.

Works on exhibition include:

Carlos Barral
Oliver Sacks
Ryszard Kapuszinsky
José Carlos Llop
Rosa Regás
Michel Leiris
Juan Gelman
Eduardo Arroyo
Italo Calvino
Marcos Ana
Montero Glez
Dario Fo
Isaac Montero
Pedro Sorela
Enrique Krauze
Jean Daniel
César Antonio Molina
Umberto Eco
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Jorge Luis Borges
Simone de Beauvoir
Jean Paul Sartre
Stephen Spender

VENUE:Instituto Cervantes de Dublín,Lincoln House, Lincoln Place, Dublín 2.
TELEPHONE.: +353 1 631 1533
EMAIL: cult1dub@cervantes.es
WEBSITE: http://dublin.cervantes.es
http://mariomuchnik.com/