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With an exhibition of the more than 30 musical instruments created by the artist Joaquín Orellana, based on the marimba and with the exhibition of two documentaries that narrate his career, hundreds of Guatemalans celebrated on Thursday, April 24, the trajectory of the 91 -year -old composer.
The artist Joaquín Orellana touches an instrument during the presentation of his exhibition “Road to Multifony” in Guatemala City. (Free Press Photo: EFE)
Orellana, present at the exhibition Multifony Wayhe described as “a dream” the tribute that the Municipality of the City of Guatemala made in honor of his career in the historic center of the capital.
“It is incredible to go from being marginalized and rejected, crossed out as crazy, to have this magnitude of recognition today that is hard to believe it is real,” Orellana said during the event.
The exhibition shows the instruments that Orellana built with pieces of traditional marimbas and turned users with acute sounds, out of the traditional, and that have been used to create different orchestral works.
The tribute to the Guatemalan artist emphasizes one of his main works, Symphony from the Third Worldwhich tells the history of the country from Orellana’s vision and that in 2021 was presented in Athens, Greece.
During the event on Thursday, April 24, the more than 500 attendees were able to take an interactive tour with the artist’s instruments to understand their operation.
The most prominent instrument of the route is the ‘Imbaluna’, a marimba in the form of a moon room that was created by Orellana at the beginning of the 21st century and is described as a skeletal keyboard with unique sounds.
Orellana’s work will be exhibited in the historic center of the Guatemalan capital during the next two months in the exhibition Way to multifony.