The Deputation de A Coruña joins the commemorations of the 40th anniversary of the Constitution with the organization of an exhibition of cartoons in which the Ferrolian artist Siro López picks up his particular vision of some of the most remarkable episodes of the Spanish Transition, from the death of Franco until the victory of the Socialist Party in the general elections of 1982.
The sample, composed of 117 drawings accompanied by explanatory texts of the historical context that they describe, have between their protagonists King Juan Carlos, Adolfo Suárez, Calvo Sotelo, Felipe González, Santiago Carrillo, Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Xerardo Fernández Albor or Francisco Vázquez, se It opened yesterday at the House of Culture of Cene, where it will remain until October 28.
“On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Constitution, nobody is better than Siro to help us recover and portray the memory of one of the most convulsive and appalling political periods in our recent history,” said the president of the Diputación de A Coruña, Valentin Gonzalez Formoso, who highlighted “the important social and political changes” that took place in Spain in these four decades “and that played the role of the whole of Spanish society.
“This was possible in part thanks to a constitutional text that regulated and guaranteed our freedoms, our rights as citizens and our coexistence in a social and democratic State of law,” said González Formoso, who thanked talent, genius and artistic mastery of Siro. Sometimes we start a smile, others inviting us to reflect and always becoming accomplices of his particular vision of a time in which Spanish society has laid the pillars of what we are today as a country. ” “If a picture has more than a thousand words, the drawings of Siro can portray better than many chronicles of the time to the characters that starred in these years,” said the president of the Diputación de A Coruña.
In the presentation that he signs in the catalog of the sample, journalist Fernando Ónega affirms that the exhibition organized by the Provincial placenta to “creative essence of Siro” and points out that “this collection of drawings is an exciting chapter of the history of Spain and of Galicia; of the history that we have agreed to call Transition, with a capital letter, and that is nothing other than the exciting construction of democracy and the exciting conquest of liberties and civic rights.
” For his part, the historian Justo Beramendi, who also signs the prologue of the exhibition catalog, points out that Siro “builds an illustrated story that, with rigor and humor, takes us by the hand, without skipping anything important, from the first Francoist laws that marked the succession in the headquarters of the State until the victory of the PSOE through the death of the dictator, the attempts to perpetuate the dictatorship, the political reform of Suarez, the conflicting confrontation rupture-transition and the constitutional process.
After its initial stay in the city of A Coruña and in Cee, where it will remain until October 28, the exhibition will continue at the Casa de Cultura in Carballo, from January 17 to February 3rd.
