These are the three samples that the kings of Spain visited in Cordoba

Once the opening ceremony was completed at the Teatro del Libertador General San Martín, Avenida Vélez Sarfield 365, the monarchs took Hipólito Yrigoyen Avenue – cut all along the way – to Emilio Caraffa Museum.

Since yesterday, the guides of Caraffa have reserved the morning of Wednesday for a historical visit in the city. The museum is the only place in Córdoba where Felipe VI and Letizia Ortiz they attended outside the framework of the Language Congress. They did it to visit three exhibitions organized by the Cervantes Institute and before meeting members of the Spanish community of Cordoba.

Samples occupy rooms 8 and 9 and rooms 2 and 3. And everything, as he was able to check Infobae in a preview, in a museum that has finalized the details for a real visit, the Spanish language is crossed by the world: writers, books, photographs, works and biographies, all diverse, but with a common denominator.

The first of the samples with which kings were found just mounted the first of the stairs of the museum is "The face of letters", an exhibition that begins with romanticism and travel more than a century of history of photography and literature in Spain, to finish with the definitive extinction of the members of the Generation of 98 and 14, in the dark years of the pro-Franco regime.

Through photographs, albums, illustrated publications, objects, postcards and phototypes, the exhibition brings us closer to the great masters of photography of the century –Laurent, Martínez Sánchez, Franzen, Compañy, Alfonso, Calvash, Antonio Garcia, Marín, Venancio Gombau and Campúaamong others, with which the iconography of Spanish letters and their representatives was built, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer a Rubén Darío, Antonio Machado o José Ortega y Gbadet.

In the next room where they were to visit the kings, they found the most graphic of the three samples presented by the Cervantes Institute: "How a book is printed". He reviews the work of graphic designers and printers in Buenos Aires between 1936 and 1950. The experiences of Attilio Rossi, Grete Stern, Horacio Coppola, Jakob Hermelin, Luis Seoane and Printing Lopez.

In 1942 The Lopez Printing Company of Buenos Aires has published and given to its closest customers and collaborators How to print a book. Through Rossi's design and Coppola and Stern's photographs and photomontages, the book has documented in a striking informative sequence of texts and images the graphic arts craftsmanship during the so-called "Age of Art". 39; gold edition in Argentina ".. This was the starting point of the sample that runs through the prints, the print letters and the pages with an ink smell.

The third and last sample is "Errant and Photography: The Hispanic World of Jesse A. Fernández". Based on the images captured by Cuban Jesús Antonio Fernández in nine countries, he mixes the world of cities, urban life and, in these contexts, with different representatives of Hispanic culture, among others: Manuel Puig and Salvador Dalí in New York, Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar and Mario Benedetti in Paris.

Jesse A. Fernández was born in Havana on December 7, 1925, seven years later, his family returned to Spain. They would however return to Cuba after the outbreak of the civil war, leaving for the last ship leaving Santander for America.

For more than three decades, between 1952 and 1986, he practiced what the show calls a "Hispanic Wandering". living in several American and European countries, from his home country to Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, France, Italy or the United States, capturing in all his travels the Hispanic world in people and in the landscape.