"Periódicos de ayer"

An exhibition that is at the same time "an act of resistance, but also of nostalgia" presents the most important moments of the development of newspapers and magazines in the second half of the 20th century and until today and how they became the tools and starting points of expressed in the artworks of Colombian and Latin American artists such as: Edgar Álvarez, Lourdes Grobet, Beatriz González, Sady González, Juan David Laserna, Jose Trinidad Romero and Carlos Aguirre, who through interventions, cuts, insertions, alterations, creativity and ingenuity managed to give new readings and meanings to the publications of the printed media, both newspapers and magazines, consolidating new aesthetic proposals that are still used today. The exhibition, that can be described as a call to resistance in an era in which new technologies that make the analog newspaper less common, comprises works by Álvaro Barrios who published his pop-art prints in newspapers such as "El Heraldo" and the "Diario del Caribe de Barranquilla" . In addition, there are works carried out by the group Paréntesis from Perú, the Grupo Suma from México, Peyote and La Compañía also of México, and Taller 4 Rojo from Colombia.