Etching One Hundred Years of Solitude: Gabriel García Márquez Through the Hands of Pedro Villalba Ospina

A University of Miami Libraries Exhibition
Otto G. Richter Library | Floors 1 and 2
Fall 2018 - Spring 2019

Produced by University of Miami Libraries and The Tonkinson Foundation

About the Video
A short video that features the University of Miami Libraries presentation of Etching One Hundred Years of Solitude: Gabriel García Márquez Through the Hands of Pedro Villalba Ospina, an artist’s book exhibition featuring original etchings, drawings, and prints more than 20 years in the making. 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.

Director: Jose M. Cabrera

Writer: Cory Czajkowski

Videography: Felipe Marrou Jr.

Editor: Bryanna Herzog

Production Manager: Gisele Rocha

Lead Librarian: Martin Tsang

Archival footage courtesy of Pedro Villalba Ospina

Music: “Minimal Subliminal Piano (Instrumental)” by Celsey McFadden

This exhibition and video were made possible in part by the support of The Tonkinson Foundation.

About Special Collections

Special Collections is home to an outstanding array of rare books, manuscripts, archival collections, photographs and audio-visual items, maps, architectural drawings, artists’ books, and other research materials that document the history of Florida, the Caribbean, Central and South America, and beyond. Special Collections’ popular Artists’ Books Collection features a very wide panorama of some of the finest examples of this nontraditional format, including the work of local artists as well as many from the Caribbean and South America. This collection is often used to inspire students and other researchers to create their own works. At times, these new works have been added to the collection, expanding the purview of South Florida and regional topics with new dimension, shape, and texture.

About the University of Miami Libraries

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About the University of Miami

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