Gabriel García Márquez Through the Hands of Pedro Villalba Ospina
Fall 2018 – Spring 2019
Otto G. Richter Library, Floors 1 and 2
Pedro Villalba Ospina’s artistic evocation of the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, brings to life a story that immerses the viewer in a timeless and magical literary world of love and loss.
View a short video about the exhibition Etching 100 Years of Solitude.
View photos of the Exhibition Opening.
Access the Exhibition Guide.
The installation takes place on the Library’s first and second floors and was inspired and directed by Villalba Ospina’s concept of transforming the library into a book, where the walls offer a multi-dimensional perspective of the book’s chapters and invite the viewer to look closer, delve deeper, through his hands and unique vision, into García Márquez’s canonical and timeless text. The University of Miami Libraries is thrilled to materialize the touch and feel of myth and magical realism, as a celebration and representation of connecting us with the diverse talents, and literary and artistic contributions, which abound in and connect the Americas.