One hundred years of solitude
© Ivan Cangelosi, 2017
170X120 cm
Ink on paper
Technique – Handwriting of the whole novel “One hundred years of solitude” of Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Spanish).
About the novel – “One hundred years of solitude” is a novel of the Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982). The book, written in 1967, tells the story of several generations of the Buendia family whose founder, José Arcadio Buendia, founds in the late nineteenth century, the town of Macondo. The novel is considered the most important work of Marquez; it has been translated into 37 languages and has sold, up to now, more than 20 million copies.
Description of the painting – This work is entitled “MAVILLE – The Moka Bar“. The word “MAVILLE” is actually a play on words, being obtained by the union of the French words “Ma” (my) and “Ville” (town). The subtitle “The Moka Bar” refers to a detail of the painting depicting a building (a bar) in the shape of an Italian coffee machine. I’ve decided to use this painting, or rather its preparatory drawing, depicting one of my imaginary town, to represent the village of Macondo which is also aprotagonist, in a certain sense, of the novel “One hundred years of solitude” of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.