Museum hosts the temporary exhibition 'Últimos ecos del Romanticismo. Rosalía de Castro y Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer'

 

In this one, coinciding with the commemoration of the birth of García Gutiérrez - on July 5 - he now presents, in his commitment to the chiclanero poet and, in general, to Romanticism, an exhibition on Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (Seville, 1836 – 1870) and Rosalía de Castro (Seville, 1836 – 1870), authors who continue and renew, in the wake of our first romantics , our literature. 

 

The year in which Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer was born is the same as the premiere of El trovador and his overwhelming triumph. A milestone that marks the start with capital letters of Romanticism in Spain. 1836. The thing started late here, which gives us an idea of how "late-romantic" Bécquer can be, depending on the dates. Or Rosalía, who was born just a year later. 

 

The great works -lyrical, dramatic,...- of the first Romanticism, which reached the public so much and that so popularly spread, have not stood the test of time, with exceptions, to the point that most of them and their authors are unknown to the general public. It was a literature attached to a specific literary movement whose postulates -ethical, aesthetic,.. - they followed with a certain rigidity and very much to the taste of a time also concrete. Some authors took note of the change that was coming and gave a more or less remarkable turn to its trajectory (without great fruits either), while others persevered in its line being outdated in a new times. 

 

That is why it is inevitable, given the popularity and validity of Rosalía and Bécquer, to think that they were not, grafted into the common trunk of Romanticism, mere continuations of what is already known and used. Both authors not only quantitatively added to the movement, but, less corseted, enriched it from the qualitative point of view, precursors of other literary directions.Almost at the same time they sang, each in their own way, a swan song that so long later we continue to hear fresh as if from now.

 

This is what this new Temporary Exhibition of the Museum of Chiclana is about, which, approaching us briefly to the life and work of these two great figures of our letters, reminds us of the great themes of the Romantic movement: the self before the mystery, love and death gathered, the most own language as the poet's homeland, nationalism as a guarantor of the signs of identity before the great constructions of states that emerge or consolidate etc.

 

This story is illustrated with paintings, engravings, poems, photographs, postcards, facsimiles of first editions and manuscripts, etc. And, of course, also with poems that are dotting the exhibition.  An invitation to read. 

 

This exhibition came to add to the recently inaugurated "Costus in Chiclana" and "The Garden of Delights". The three, which will remain open to the public until well into September, make up, together with the always renewed Permanent Exhibition, the Museum's exhibition offer for the summer season.