Cali, November 3
of 1,938 Bogota, October 7, 2006
Tribute to the Master and his friend on his birthday 68
The last picture of the Master Alape in Cali. Departmental Library. Tertulia
Cali with youth around 50 years of the explosion of August 7, 1956 Photo
MIC NTC ...
--- I am returning to the habits of children in the 40s and 50 of the last century is
as the reconstruction of memory, life, artist, intellectual man,
reunion with old and new friends. Arturo Alape
Tribute to Maestro and friend on his birthday
Night of Art, Music, Poetry and Tertulia. Invite
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Centennial Library
Social Research Group "ARTURO ALAPE in Cali Blog
" ARTURO ALAPE "
Friday, November 3 2.006
6:30 PM - Cali
LOCATION: CENTENNIAL LIBRARY
Colombia Calle 4 ª Avenida. West Corner
Tel: 893 2909 E-mail: bcentenario@yahoo.es and aalapeblog@gmail.com
--- Arturo Alape, the inquirer unfailing our reality .*
(Cali , 1938 - Bogotá, 2006)
By Luis Alberto Díaz Martínez.
communicator and writer. For Katia, Paloma, Manuel, Nicholas and all his loved ones.
A humanistic sensibility, warm, simple and endearing like the Maestro Arturo Alape can only understand if you know, for example, from "very peladito" along with his older brother Alvaro, they had to walk the streets near former Cali central gallery, selling food to raise some money that would allow his mother Transito in-hold tenancy where a family lived with the absent parent. That is, he never forgot his home and always took great pride.
Moreover, if a few years of primary school managed to take final impressions joined as that of April 9, 1948, when a few hours after the assassination of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan and chaos that swept across the country, discovered in the back of a newly arrived neighbor bike-resident in the same tenancy Cali, a bullet hole and a stain of blood that covered her entire back, as has been happening in Colombia since then. That is, never ceased to be anxious or critical questions about the barbarity of their counterparts, seeking an answer at all costs.
And if one learns that officiating assistant and runner of a sensitive dentist got to know their facilities to combine shapes and colors, it also follows that force soon began their classes in drawing and painting in fine arts first, to continue with them after the People's Institute of Culture when he had toured the municipalities of Valle del Cauca as a peddler of hardware until arriving finally in Cali tolerance zone with an assortment of lingerie. That is, he was never crumpled to the effort to sustain dignity and pure pluck with moonlighting.
Until they made teenage and early adult, he became reader of poetry fighter English Civil War, the Letters to Theo Van Gogh and the great literature, participated as a student leader at the conference Cali contributed to the fall of Rojas Pinilla's dictatorship, led from the leftist political activism, at the beginning of the National Front-the birth of the neighborhoods invasion in Cali, and when no other alternative generation is committed to go to the mountain to observe with his own skin the armed insurgency and eventually decide that the way it was meant to replace the pure analysis and creation. That is, took the bull by the horns and without resentment or the curses of some of his contemporaries was routed for the life of literary and pictorial art, paying the high price of exile, the ostracized interior, the decrease and ninguneo.
Then followed a dizzying journey through the intricacies of historical research, sociological and journalistic through the maze of reflection, debate, testing and university professor, for the adventurous and refreshing cliffs creating universes libertarian narrative with short stories, novels, poetry and painting which, added to his vocation of traveler, music lover's bolero, tango, Caribbean rhythms, jazz and classical music, in addition to its culinary delights, made him a new kind of humanist who took literally the juice its existence and humor in complicity with their loved ones. In short, a wonderful and irreplaceable legacy in scope to really understand why we keep killing between brothers and how we can stop if finally land once and the owners of all powers in Colombia.
Public Works: Diary of a guerrilla (1970), Tirofijo Deaths (1972), Guadalupe years without consideration (coauthor, Casa de las Americas prize, 1976), One Day in September. Testimony on the work stoppage of 1977 (1977), men's body invisible (1979), The Bogotazo: memories from oblivion (1983), Night Bird (1984, 2003), The peace, violence: witnesses of emergency (1985), The Lives of Pedro Antonio Marín, Manuel Marulanda Velez, Tirofijo (1989), multiple rating on Thomas Carrasquilla (1990), Juliet, the dream of butterflies (1994), Sureshot: dreams and the mountains (1994), Ciudad Bolivar: the bonfire of illusions (1995), multiple rating on León de Greiff (1995), Rio de huge voices and other voices (1997), Looking at the end of the morning (Grant Creating Colcultura 1995, 1998), Blood of Others (2000), I am a book in prison (2002), Light in the agony of the fish (2004), Frida Kahlo (2004) and the unburied corpse (2005). ---
* Text to be published in the journal "METROPOLITAN" http://www.calicultural.com/articles/107/art_03mx_107.html of Cali in November 2006, in the section: OUTSIDE CALI / CALI IN MIGRATION
This page is dedicated to the recognition of those who for one reason or another decided or had to leave Cali, the city, cultivating and harvesting followed elsewhere. Like it or not, Cali is his lair, its meaning, so here are.
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ARTURO
ALAPE * By: Omar Ortiz
the tabloid, Tulua, October 14, 2006 http://www.eltabloide.com.co/?Articulo=12742
http: / / www.eltabloide.com.co/Imagenes/opi_omarortiz-01.jpg (Photo: Omar Ortiz)
Carlos Arturo Ruiz, who appeared well on civil registration was primarily a fighter, a fighter who beat him the difficulties of poverty and who from an early age had to put the chest to the wind to raise her mother and younger siblings. But its many offices are not prevented him from studying People at the Institute of Cali between 1955 and 1959, managed to become a painter, artistic discipline practiced for sixty-eight years, complementing its interest in writing, drama, research, journalism and in general all areas creating enabling it to generate criticism and controversy.
Born in Cali, studied in the Central School of Youth in Moscow, where he resolved to adopt the pseudonym of "Arturo Alape" as a tribute to James Frías Alape, "Black Charro, guerrilla leader of the fifties. Alape was passionate fighter for popular causes and as such became a member of the Communist Youth to was Secretary and well traveled throughout the department of Valle, with a mission to make the most important organization there to serve their revolutionary ideals of the Party. In this militancy became friends in the town of Marquetalia with Pedro Antonio Marin, "Sureshot", commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-FARC-and that would close a book that made him famous, "The deaths of Tirofijo "published in 1972.
for his political activity had to take several times into exile by death threats from state security forces. Cuba and Germany were their temporary shelters, under which he used to realize the role their experiences social, their experiences, their research, resulting in at least 23 books published of which we highlight: "Diary of a guerrilla" (1970), "The death of Sureshot" (1972), "The Bogotazo: memories forgetting "(1983)," Night Birds "(1984)," Julieta's dream of butterflies "(1994)," The corpse unburied "(2005). Arturo Alape
could not be defeated, suffering from leukemia for seven years he played a trick on this October 7 when the attending physician at the clinic Corpas in Bogota, was pronounced dead, but what All we know is that from any landscape Alape walk proud to be the most communist of the Doctors who had the Universidad del Valle.
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