The exhibition “Terror in the laboratory. From Frankenstein Dr. Moreau” Remember in this city 200 years of the writer Mary Shelley devise the creation of his novel Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus .
at a press conference, the curators and exhibition organizers explained that the sample is displayed in the Espacio Fundación Telefónica goes beyond reflecting how in the nineteenth century art and science create characters that would later become icons of science fiction.
Along with the work of Shelley, are included as axes to “the island of Dr. Moreau” and “man invisible “, both of Herbert George Wells; “Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson
Also, “Man of the sand,” Ernst Hoffmann.; and “Future Eve” by Auguste Villiers-Adam L`Isle are part of the exhibition will be open until October 16.
The writer Fernando Marias recalled that the June 16, 1816 Mary Shelley, her husband Percy, Lord Byron, John Polidori and others gathered to spend the summer in Geneva, but as the weather did not allow them to enjoy the landscape locked themselves to talk about today, fiction and suspense.
recent scientific experiments that were carried out in Europe led to each propose a story and Mary Shelley conceived Frankenstein, who two years later would see the light as a book that would icon to this day.
writer and philosopher Fernando Savater said that “Mary Shelley created thereby the first materialistic story of terror”, from which arise many others that are a portrait of Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus.
In the presentation of the exhibition, said that is the popular literature that creates the most memorable visual for people and characters, and as in its case- become part of their imaginary as some components of the sample are part of your collection private.
the exhibition is curated by Maria Santoyo and Miguel Delgado, who explained that the content of the exhibition the relationship of culture and science is, which for long has had no barriers between yes.
the space exhibition includes dolls and figures, audiovisual material, posters, machines and laboratory instruments, paintings, photography and historiography of each of these books.
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