Multiple disciplines exhibit on Argentina’s Malvinas passion opens in Buenos Aires
A multiple discipline exhibition on the Malvinas Islands ahead of the 30th anniversary of the South Atlantic conflict will be officially opened Thursday evening in the Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires.
Under the ambitious heading of “Malvinas, art, document, history, memory and nowadays” the exhibition brings together a multitude of expressions on a highly sensitive and emotional issue for many Argentines as is the sovereignty claim over the Falklands/Malvinas and the efforts to integrate them to the continent be it by force or diplomacy.
Precisely the exhibit takes off in April 1982 when documentary photographer Rafael Wollmann was visiting the Islands and exclusively documented the Argentine forces landing for their short lived conquest that so deeply marked recent Argentine history and helped transform the South Atlantic archipelago.
From a colonial forgotten rural community the Malvinas have become in three decades a bustling hub of business, fishing, tourism, farming and now oil exploration.
With that same intensity in Argentina the unfulfilled dream of recovered Islands continues to mark Argentine feelings, dreams, art and sufferings of the thousands of soldiers, mostly teenage conscripts sent in 1982 unprepared but with the illusion of a geste to the barren, wind swept islands which turned out into tragedy.
The to-be heroes returned as the culprits of an infamous defeat of incompetent generals and admirals, and abandoned to their luck, families and stressful memories that will accompany them for life.
That confusion of emotions, scars, memory, documents and creativeness, very much worthy of value and the commitment of its creators is presented in this exhibit which is sponsored by the University of Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, the Malvinas Islands Museum created in 1982 but that will see the light for the first time on Thursday and the Taeda Foundation with the support from the Argentine presidency and the Ministry of Education.
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This could be big!!
I see an eighth wonder of the world in the offing!!
Talk about romantasing an unjust war!!
It should become a shrine to all those conscripts who were needlessly sacrificed on their leaders political whim. It should serve as a warning to ALL those Argentinians who think that invading the Falkand Islands was / is a good idea and it should stand FOREVER as a nations shame at the failure of their expansionist policy.
Yes, so heroic I'm lost for words.
Argentines ought to be grateful. Their government has taken action against one of the hitherto little remarked upon hazards of modern life: reading.
Just think: Argentines – and probably many more worldwide – have been unwittingly exposing themselves to potentially dangerous levels of lead in the ink in the publications they peruse. No longer. Under thoughtful new rules, imported books and magazines will be held up by customs authorities while the lead levels in the ink are checked – all in the name of public health and environmental protection, its supporters say.
On Twitter, however, few cheer this latest measure, viewing it not as a safeguard by a nanny state but a new Kafkaesque measure by a government bent on substituting foreign-made things for things that could be made by Argentines. Free the books, is the Twitter hashtag.
Is culture being held hostage to Argentina’s trade policy? Widgets can be substituted, but can foreign books?
Readers fear that orders from Amazon will require a trip to the customs department of the Ezeiza international airport, some 40km outside Buenos Aires, for the bureaucratic delight of being allowed, for a fee, to pick up orders that in other countries plop straight through the letterbox without any problems. Amazon did not answer beyondbrics’ request about how it and its customers would be impacted by the new rules, and no one could be reached in customs at Ezeiza for comment.
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So this is the latest battle in the war on the minds of the adult Argentinians, following the extensive amount of propaganda they are subjected to in childhood.
We know where this is going to end (rerun of 1939)
as we know the RG's make huge pronouncements and they forget about them. This will be about making money at customs and salting it away somewhere.
Remember the one the other week about the botox queen instructing her ministers ie la campora to speak to the uk about the 3 flights from plummet airlines? thats all gone quiet. completely forgotten about.
They are complete clowns.
Might have a few vodkas on the 14th of June.
Now that's worth celebrating.
Must be a great university. Maybe they offer non existent degrees, to non existent students?
Argentines = raving loons.
we conmemorate our soldiers that gave their lifes in 1982
the way we like, our way.
Learn some history f***wit.
www.falklands.gov.fk/Historical_Dates.html
and southamerica for south americans
get your facts right
and leave our soldiers in peace, dont bother with that
Will it commemorate the deaths of UK soldiers that were killed when going to accept the surrender of Argentine soldiers who were performing a false surrender.
Will is commemorate the Argentine affinity for painting a red cross on every building with a Argentine soldier in it.
I guess not as the Geneva convention does not exactly apply to Argentina does it?
the killing of british soldiers we also think it was a sadly thing to happenned
you also killed 300 of Gral Belgrano outside from combant front
leave the dead in peace
Before 1982 the Argentine military were used to shooting students and nuns. ( en.mercopress.com/2011/05/12/pilots-linked-to-argentina-s-death-flights-and-killing-of-french-nuns-arrested )
Sympathy to the families of the dead Argentine soldiers, RIP and all that, but when you invade and occupy another land, subjugate its people, and pick a fight with the British, we tend to shoot back and sh*t happens.
Re- Belgrano read the Captains statement on his mission and whether he thought it was a viable target.
Captain Hector Bonzo: “Yes, I agree with that statement. I think we posed a real threat... we never had any intention of going back to shore; we were only waiting for the right moment to act.”
Scroll down to: on this link
www.culture24.org.uk/history%20%26%20heritage/war%20%26%20conflict/modern%20conflict/art45923
An abandoned Argentine rocket launcher on an improvised mounting discovered on top of a slide in a children’s playground at the Goose Green settlement.
what happenned with dictators its a problem of our nation that it has been judged. I know that has been state oppression or state terrorism or abuse of power. No need you to tell me that, I recoignize it.
Well said Sir !!!!!!!
Will it commemorate the deaths of UK soldiers that were killed when going to accept the surrender of Argentine soldiers who were performing a false surrender.
Quite right the Argentines abused the white flag and won't be given a second chance. If there is a re-run of the tragic events 30 years ago, British Soldiers will continue firing and then fix bayonets.
Philippe
we get the likes of malen,,,,,,,,,,,,,
no shame some people,
@ 18
malem, the fatty indian crying again. Looooooooser! India pata sucia asquerosa.
You are going to celebrate the 14th June, What? another pirate enclave colony! great!!!
The three Falkland Islanders that were killed were by the direct actions of your countrymen. Firstly they had no right to invade and secondly if your soldiers were men of honour they would have not been firing from a designated civilian area. Remember Malen, you started it and we finished it.
Every single drop of blood from that dreadful war is on the hands of Argentina.
The ARA Saint Belgrano was in their mind shooting out love rainbows and honeysuckle candy canes in the South Atlantic when we savagely sank it.
They're just weak minded fools, that don't know the consequences of their actions.
Actually l though that the Belgrano was a hospital ship! LOL.
@28 puerto argentino,
Jealousy will get you no-where.
14th of June is a glorious day.
The day that the invading, lying, dishonourable scumbags surrendered.
Stay in your own backyard, don't come into ours.
@14 malen,
Didn't like it when we sank the Belgrano, eh?
So you think it was outside of some “zone”?
What about the RN ships you were going to to try to sink at Gibraltar?
Thats a long way from your precious “zone”
ldiota.
Not a single islander was hurt or raped during the conflict by Argentinean personal, not even the ones that help the British forces.
Do you know the names of those three ladies? I doubt it.
Mrs Susan Whitley, Mrs Doreen Bonner and Mrs Mary Goodwin.
RIP all the dead and injured during the conflict.
www.ppu.org.uk/falklands/falklands3.html
Enjoy celebrating the 30th anniversary of the commencement of killing Marcos. When did you lot lose your integrity (if you ever had any)?
As you know I was not in favour of the war nor my self elected dictators, but facts are facts as Lucy Beck wrote in the article@32. Your elected leaders share the responsibility of that stupid war thirty years ago.
A few hours ago six Nobel Peace Prize laureates from every corner of the planet called for Britain to open talks with Argentina on the sovereignty of the islands and to comply with United Nations resolutions calling for the initiation of talks with Argentina, so get use to the peaceful change and stop barking non sense.
Fuckoff.
Malvinas Argentinas
en.mercopress.com/2011/12/12/chile-names-harvard-educated-economist-as-new-central-bank-president
falklandsnews.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/haig-tells-argentina-we-will-defend-the-falklands/
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17549388
My King's share of the vote was as great as my Queen's =)
The six nobel peace prize winners can say what they wish, their letter does nothing to change the correct and just British gvt position and we will see if they respond to a letter from the people that really mater, the islanders themselves.
A group of highly respected Argentines have called on your gvt to change its approach and drop its claim. They then are visciously attacked by sections of your media. Are they not allowed an opinion that is different to the nonsence vomited out by your increasingly desperate leadership.
There is no change Marcos and you are no closer to achieving your ambitions with regards to the Islands. You do actually know this but cannot bring youself to admit it.
if you think this was just another imperialists event
why dont you go to lybia and tell them that, and perhaps you can take your king and queen with you.
and if you get out alive, you may,,just may, have a different opinion of why they were there in the first place .
Yes, I am wondering how many British imagines / pictures they will use, I bet our memories of that war are a lot less confusing.
Hero's indeed!!
Was it not these same “Hero's” who sited their Artillery in the middle of housing estates?
Who paint red crosses on not only their ammunition stores but also their food stores as well?
Was it not these “Hero's” how used the primary school in Port Stanley as a toilet?
Malvinas vs Falklands: Negotiations with the U.N.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vys78sGB7Y
So you want to kick out the islanders?
Thats what you planned in 1982.
The islanders are'nt going anywhere. We are'nt going anywhere either.
Why don't you go back to Spain or wherever your ancestors came from? I am sure the surviving indigenous population would be ecstatic to reclaim their land from a bunch of foriegn usurpers and squatters.
The Falklands are 300 miles away from the mainland and your claim to them is based on lies, distortion and a ludicrous inferiority complex.
@46 Ignorant little shit!
at this rate, argentina will be broken up and split into different countries,
and all because their deluded leader and her indocrinoughts, put the british falklands, before their own people and argentina,
so in advance, bye bye .
l pray for the day when Argentina breaks up into smaller countries.
Or perhaps Chile takes over some of their southern provinces.
And then not to forget to thank the UK for 'giving a helping hand'.
As for the Argentine troops performance, people lke J. Moore had a very different concept like the one you´ve displayed here at MP ad nauseam but, hey, you surely know more than him.
@54: that´s pretty much retarded. I´m sure all the fans of your dead pal Pinochet (a dictator) would love that. And then they say “the chileans/british intentions toward argentine land are a lie” ..... Spare us you BS, please.
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You guys don´t see the bright side of this comments: people from the UK, the FI and Argentina united by the despice toward Mrs. Kirchner !!!! Now how can we use that in a constructive way ?
remove the offending item from the constitution.
renounce any and all claims on the falkland islands,
and promise to try and put right , that others have destroyed,
be friendy-helpfull-diligent-kind-offer-be conciderate, the fure is in your hands .
briton at 57 is right.
Can Argentina do it?
lt would be nice but l doubt it.
Yes, definitely smaller countries it will have to be.
not BS, a great idea for us.
Keep the Falklands British -
www.facebook.com/pages/Keep-the-Falklands-British/123151384435619?sk=wall&filter=1
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