The industrial revolution first, and, currently, the process of computerization and digitalization of our culture and civilization, have led to such important changes in the graphic arts, that it is striking that we still continue to use the same name for this type of artistic work. This is probably so, because a central idea in this type of visual expression continues to be valid, which is the conviction that it participates in an intense way with the principles of iconography, in a way that other forms of visual artistic expression do not. That is, the idea that it is an image that, when linked to a written text, forms with it a set of meaning, which, furthermore, instantly (it is prepared specifically for each publication), makes it independent of a tradition which is not, therefore, increasingly useful in the context of a civilization that does not stop demanding speed.

In the exhibition “Oh secret voice of dark love” by Jesús Martínez Oliva, the graphic work that he prepared to illustrate the poems that make up the collection of poems “Sonnets of dark love” by Federico García Lorca is shown, prepared on the occasion of the edition of that text by the Flores Raras publishing house, in 2018. As these are illustrations, they are shown in La Posta accompanying each of the sonnets, reinforcing the idea that their meaning is formed in conjunction with a written text.

In this context of illustration of written texts, editorial work appears to be particularly relevant. It is for this reason that we have invited the editor, the person who founded, together with other partners, FLORES RARAS, to share with us the experience of an adventure such as publishing books, and, in particular, illustrated books, an experience that is added to that of a bookstore, together, some work experiences that we think can be enormously useful for the LGTBIQ+ group. Mili Hernández will be with us on Friday, November 17 at 7:00 p.m.