Bauer asked to “remember Tato Pavlosky, an extraordinary human being, an integral artist.” Twitter Horacio Pietragalla
singers and songwriters Leon Gieco and Victor Heredia received the “Tato” Pavlovsky awardwhich is awarded to personalities from the world of culture for their commitment to the promotion and defense of human rights, in an act in which Cultural Center of Memory “Haroldo Conti”located in the exESMA, with which the activities of Memory Week began.
The playwright was also awarded Griselda Gambarothe actor Alberto Fernandez de Rosaand the poet and journalist Jorge Boccanera, within the framework of the event that was chaired by the Secretary of Human Rights, Horacio Pietragalla Corti; and the Minister of Culture, Tristán Bauer.
Pietragalla Corti highlighted the figure of Pavlosky and said that he was “lucky enough to meet him after a performance of Teatro x la Identidad” in which he “transmitted great affection to him. and I began to have a relationship with him and learn about his history, his exile”.
“For us it is important to be able to honor the victims who transformed persecution, exile and pain into art and resistance,” added the official.
“Tato” Pavlovsky was a pioneer of psychodrama in Latin America. Photo Daniel Darras.
In the same way, Bauer asked to “remember Tato Pavlosky, an extraordinary human being, an integral artist”and thanked the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo “for their presence, for always remembering here our 30,000 disappeared, our compañeros and compañeras, many of them artists.”
Later, upon receiving the award, Gieco said that he also knew Pavlosky and detailed: “I saw all his works and on my last album there is a song that is inspired by the work ‘Rojos Globos Rojos, which he did with Norman Briski’.
For his part, Heredia thanked the distinction and considered that “perhaps the greatest award I received was belonging to the black lists of this country.”
“I suffered two exiles like many of the comrades who are present here and I believe that the honor that life has given me is having the possibility of accompanying the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, the backbone of this democracy,” he said.
Meanwhile, Boccanera expressed that it is “a great honor to receive this recognition that bears the name of an emblem of cultural militancy” as well as “to receive it in this house of memory of another great fighter for social justice, Haroldo Conti.”
The playwright Griselda Gambaro received the “Tato” Pavlovsky award. Twitter Horacio Pietragalla
In his turn, Fernández de Rosa said emotionally that “it is very difficult to receive an award like this, which I am deeply grateful for, without the innumerable colleagues who are not here today going through one’s head” because “one feels the moral obligation to represent them They are the ones who should be awarded”.
Meanwhile, Gambaro was unable to attend the event and his producer Gracia Rodríguez received the award instead, who read an emotional text by the author referring to the civic-military dictatorship.
The ceremony culminated with a recital by Gieco and Heredia with their most popular songs and the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Taty Almeida, Clara Weinstein and Herenia Sánchez de Viamonte were also present.
Also present were Rosario Lufrano and Osvaldo Santoro, president and vice president of Radio and Television Argentina; and Jorge Marrale, president of SAGAI.
Gieco: “I saw all his works and on my last album there is a song that is inspired by the work Red Balloons Red. Twitter Horacio Pietragalla
The secretariat was represented by the undersecretary for the Promotion of Human Rights, Natalia Barreiro, and the director of the “Haroldo Conti” Cultural Center for Memory, Lola Berthet; together with references from Human Rights organizations.
The Pavlovsky Awards were instituted in 2021 by the National Human Rights Secretariat, with the aim of promoting the construction of memory and making visible the close relationship between the world of culture and human rights.
The distinction bears the name of Eduardo “Tato” Pavlovsky in homage to the playwright, psychoanalyst, actor and author of memorable pieces on the national scene such as “El señor Galindez”, “Potestad” and “La muerte de Marguerite Duras”.
Heredia: “Perhaps the greatest prize I received was belonging to the black lists of this country.” Twitter Horacio Pietragalla
Tato was born in Buenos Aires on December 10, 1933 and was a pioneer of psychodrama in Latin America. In 1978, after the persecution of the task forces, he went into exile in Spain, returning to Argentina once democracy was restored. He passed away in 2015, at the age of 81.
