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The Maria Victoria Captia MVA Cultural Center of the Diputacia de Málaga, located on Calle Ollerías in the capital, welcomes the South Printing (1925-2025) exhibition. One hundred years, one hundred objects, to commemorate the centenary of one of the most significant prints related to Spanish poetry of the 20th century.
The Vice President of Culture and Education, Manuel López Mentanza, was responsible for the inauguration of the exhibition along with the commissioner, poet, and editor Rafael Inglada, closely related to this printed press since the early 80s.
López Mestanza explained that through documentation, sometimes never before exhibited, through drawings, photographs, original machines, personal objects, and editions in the south, later called Dardo, a chronological journey is made through the different stages by which the printed press, from its beginnings in Tomás Heredia, to its acquisition by the generation of the cultural center of 27, initiated in 2005.
Through the one hundred objects in the exhibition, «the public will gain a very clear idea of its fertile history and the great relevance it has had and still has in the publication of books, notebooks, and artisanal magazines,» said López Mentanza.
Among the objects that Rafael Inglad, the Exhibition Commissioner, has gathered, it is possible to highlight some pieces of the southern printing press, such as a portable printer used by Manuel Altlaguirre in Madrid, Paris, and England, after being separated from the south; A manual roller for printing tests or a showcase with printers from different families.
Also highlighted is the wall clock that Emilio Prados offered to the printed press after being separated from it or the book of signatories in which writers, poets, and painters left their testimonies of the works edited by the press that later took the name Dardo, with its vicinta Aixandre, Jorge Guill, Brikmann, among others.
In the exhibition, some little-known or even unpublished photos can be seen, such as a portrait of José María Hinojosa that has never been exhibited until now.
Documents like the request made by Emilio Prados to the city of Málaga to transfer the printed media from its initial location on Calle Heredia de Tomás to that of San Lorenzo, and to the heirs of numerous poetry collections that were first printed in the south and later, when it changed its name in 1937 to Dardo, so well so well so well so well.
History of the Southern Printing
López Mestanza said that the printing of the south «is not only related to the history of poetry in Málaga, but to the history of Spanish poetry of the 20th century, with incalculable value.»
In the 1920s, when young Emilio Prados and Manuel others began working with the Minerva cars, giving voice to the poets of the time, who would be the generation of 27.
The first period was in the second half of the 1920s, with the publication of Costera (considered the most emblematic magazine of 27) by Emilio Prados, Manuel Otros, and José María Hinojosa (who joined later), and the books of Lorca, Alberti, Aleixandre, and Prados, among others.
The second period of splendor takes place in 1941, after the press was called Dart and extends to the nineties, due to the successive generations of printers and master editors like Bernabé Fernández-Coiverl Atance and Ángel Caffarena. They would be joined by younger ones, like Salvador López Becerra or Rafael Inglada.
The third prominent moment arrives in 2001 when, to prevent its disappearance, the acquisition of the printed dart (the former south) by Diputacia is formalized and handed over to the 27th generation for its custody and preservation at this headquarters.
Since 2005, books and poetry books have been composed and printed, creating various collections like the English Castle, Cloud Hunter, or Minerva Bed, which continue today.
It was also the Andrade family who steered the company from its inception to the present, maintaining the typographic beauty that characterizes them so much.
Parallel Activities on the Occasion of the Centenary
At the MVA, a series of conferences given by specialists in the history of southern printing, such as José Infante, Francisco Ruiz Noguera, Salvador López Becerra, and Rafael Inglada; A workshop, led by Lorena Fernández Jiménez, on «artistic practices in papermaking» and ten guided tours of the exhibition that will take place on May 12, 19, and 26, 2, 9, 23, and 30, 7, 14, and 21 at 18:00.
In the province, there will be twelve sessions of the workshop «South Printing 2025.»