Maurer Curates Lorca Exhibition
Christopher Maurer, Professor of Spanish, has curated an exhibition titled “Jardín deshecho: Lorca y el amor” (“Torn Garden: Lorca and Love https://elcultural.com/regresar-al-amor-con-garcia-lorca d Love”) at the Centro Federico García Lorca, Granada (through January 6). Literary manuscripts, letters, photographs, musical scores and personal objects, many exhibited for the first time, trace Lorca’s readings, reflections and writing on love, desire and sexuality from his earliest prose and poetry (ca. 1916) until the end of his life (1936), with attention to his relationships with Salvador Dalí, Rafael Rodríguez Rapún, and others. This is Christopher’s second major exhibition, after co-curating with Andrés Soria Olmedo “Back Tomorrow: Lorca in New York” at the New York Public Library in 2013.
Keeping an expert eye on the aesthetics and the organization of the exhibition was adjunct curator Francisco Ramallo, who teaches “History of Spanish Art” and “Spaces of Art” in BU’s program in Madrid. The exhibition and accompanying 225-page catalogue incorporate research and creative contributions by several students and former students in RS’s Spanish graduate program (Teresa Gelardo Rodríguez, Christopher Eldrett, Laura Mayron) as well as a new interpretation of one of Lorca’s most important drawings by Professor Emeritus of Italian Dennis Costa.
The exhibition—the first major show based on the Lorca archive and personal library now housed at the Lorca Center in Granada—was introduced by Spain’s Minister of Culture and the Mayor of Granada and attracted extensive coverage in the Spanish and European press.