Tuesday 1 July
9:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m.
The tangos of Mariano Otero || Collector's stamp Carlos Gardel
Price : FREE
THE TANGOS OF MARIANO OTERO
For several years, Tangopostale has been eager to exhibit Mariano Otero's tango works. His wife and their two daughters opened the doors of his studio to us, and together, we selected the most beautiful pastels and drawings that you will see in this exceptional exhibition.
Mariano Otero's work is composed of still lifes, nudes, bathers, café scenes, posters and, what particularly interests us today: tangos.
Exhibition opening hours:
➜ Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 June: from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
➜ From Monday, June 30 to Friday, July 5: from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
➜ Opening celebration of the exhibition on Wednesday, July 2 at 11 a.m.
Mariano Otero, a Spanish painter born in Madrid in August 1942 and who died in Rennes on July 9, 2019, listened to a lot of tango when he was a kid, and never forgot its tunes and dances, its words and its colors.
Solitude, uprootedness, but also social justice and revolt—all these themes have been dear to him following the exile of his father in 1947, a republican writer and journalist forced to flee Franco's regime. It wasn't until 1956 that the Otero family joined him in Rennes, when Mariano was 14 years old.
Ink on paper, line drawings in pencil, pastels on paper: for around ten years, Mariano Otero painted, in various formats, the dancing couple, the tanguera putting her shoe back on, the entwining of bodies, the sound of the bandoneon, etc.
“My attraction to tango goes back a long way. My mother, who danced it very well in her youth, sang the words of Carlos Gardel to me as a child… Tango was in me and the turning point happened in November 1994… Since then, I have been revolving around tango.”
CARLOS GARDEL COLLECTOR STAMP PROJECT
On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the death of Carlos Gardel (1890 – 1935), on the initiative of Georges Galopa, president of the Gardéliens of Toulouse and specialist in Gardel's biography, and in partnership with La Poste, theToulouse Philatelic Union decided to produce five stamps and a collector's item (4 different stamps which are different from the standard issue sheet stamps) in homage to the creator of sung tango.
These unique stamps will be on display at the Municipal Community of Health Centre, during the same hours as the "Tangos of Mariano Otero" exhibition. They will be on sale on site, then at the Eterna milonga every day, as well as during the Despedida on Sunday, July 6 at Mas Tolosa.
Esquirol metro station (line A) - 8 minutes walking
