Sounds and Textures

We invite you to a concert-lecture that recovers the legacy of avant-garde artists and

their entanglements with indigenous artistic practices during their exile in the

Americas. On the escape route from Nazism and Fascism, New York acted as a

hinge port—a meeting place for artists who would eventually find their destiny in

Latin America, where the yaraví intertwines with Andean weaving.

Samuel Diz will perform pieces by Rosita García Ascot, Manuel de Falla, Emiliana

de Zubeldía, Gustavo Durán, and Federico García Lorca on a facsimile replica of

Lorca’s historic 1906 guitar. To its rhythm, Sol Izquierdo will present the histories of

exiled women artists Lene Schneider-Kainer, Olga Fisch, and Gisela Ephrussi. After

settling in Latin America, these women collaborated with indigenous communities to

create textiles. Sounds and textures thus weave together the experience of exile with

the rich and complex heritage of their host countries.

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Host or Publisher Espacio de Culturas @ NYU