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    A Plastic Exercise
    A Plastic Exercise
    A Plastic Exercise
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    A Plastic Exercise

    By Lázaro Droznes

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    This work of fiction recreates the days of the year 1932 in which, David Siqueiros, a painter committed with communism and art as an instrument of the Revolution, agrees to paint a mural illustrating nude women in the basement of in the country house known as Los Granados, which belonged to the newspaper mogul Natalio Botana, owner of the Crítica, against all his ideological principles. The wife of the painter, Blanca Luz Brum, is the model used in the mural. once the project is over, Blanca leaves Siqueiros and falls in love with Natalio Botana. Siqueiros returns to Mexico deported from Argentina and a year later Luz abandons Botana. Fifty years later the property is bought to extract the mural from the abandoned basement and sell it in the international market. As a consequence of legal problems the art piece is held for 15 years at various warehouses in the Puerto de Buenos Aires and finally is expropriated by the Argentinian Government to be restored and exhibited to the public during the celebration of the Bicentennial of the Independence of Argentina. This fiction recreates the situations that accompanied this extraordinary story which reflects Argentina in the 1930’s and the round of couples that was its leitmotiv.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUnitexto. Digital Publishing
    Release dateJan 18, 2016
    ISBN9781507129760
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      A Plastic Exercise - Lázaro Droznes

      A Plastic Exercise

      SCENE 1. NATALIO BOTANA’S OFFICE

      David Siqueiros, tall handsome man with sallow skin, seems 37 years of age and Natalio Botana, who is short, stout and a little overweight is 45 years old, they are sitting in a desk which reveals economic prosperity.

      BOTANA

      Cigar?

      SIQUEIROS

      Not now, thanks.

      BOTANA

      Take it. You can smoke it later, relaxed.

      BOTANA

      Whisky?

      SIQUEIROS

      I never drink in the morning. If I start now I won’t be able to stop.

      BOTANA

      How is the subject of your visa working out?

      SIQUEIROS

      I got one for three months.

      BOTANA

      You don’t have much time. What brings you here?

      SIQUEIROS

      I want you to help me get the silos from Puerto Madero to make a mural.

      BOTANA

      The state has full ownership of those silos and they won’t give them away. We are not in México.

      SIQUEIROS

      We have to take art out of the museums and bring it to the masses. From Critica you could get one of those open spaces.

      BOTANA

      The social ideas of the artist have nothing to do with his art.

      SIQUEIROS

      We need to liberate painting from academicism and art-purism.

      BOTANA

      Those are a lot of isms in the same sentence.

      SIQUEIROS

      You support the communists, the anarchists, help my cause too.

      BOTANA

      I support the communists and the anarchists to sell papers.

      SIQUEIROS

      You want to seem much worse than you really are. There is romanticism in what you do in that newspaper, and lots of it.

      BOTANA

      Look, here the State doesn’t care about painters. We paint generals and presidents and hang the paintings in the livingroom.

      SIQUEIROS

      Art has an imperative social and political categorical.

      BOTANA

      If it is put under the service

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