Ruidos y susurros de las vanguardias - Medialab Prado

literary magazines with renewed restlessness.
El Gran Café Social de Oriente
(Located in the Glorieta de Atocha, currently Cervecería Restaurante “Dorna”
serving Galician food, Tapas and Pizzas)
Rafael Barradas, painter and contributor to ultraist magazines and creator of his
own movement Vibracionismo, moves from Barcelona to Madrid and founds in
this café nearby the Atocha train station his literary circle known as "de los
alfareros", as most of the participants were contributors to the ultraist magazine
"ALFAR ". This café and the figures who populated it, as well as the urban space
around it, turned into the painter's motif of his work, who lived nearby.
Barradas portrayed most of the protagonists of the Spanish literary life, and more
specifically, the members of the ultraist movement; most of his portraits were
made in India ink.
THE "POSTISMO" IN THE "CAFÉ CASTILLA"
(Located in calle Infantas, currently a luxury hotel)
The "Postismo" was born in this café in Madrid around 1945, the triangular
business cards distributed in this café with the name of the three founders:
Chicharro Jr. ("chebé"), Carlos Edmundo de Ory and Silvano Sernesi, are a proof
of its creation.
They were members of an association called "Versos con café" with briefs forays
into the "Café Gijón", a hive of "creative youth" and their "Garcilaso".
Some of their performances consisted in arriving to the café with their jackets
inside out, their socks in their pockets, as a handkerchief, or wearing them in their
hands as gloves and a skull or something similar under their arms. They jumped
onto one of the tables and began to pronounce a strange recital of guttural sounds
and trills accompanied with rhythmical convulsions of all their body. They even
recited poems of a supposed Russian poet called Serjovich that they had
invented, though the audience even believed to have read things by him. Time
later, Felix Casanova de Ayala (who had attended the recital) asked him: "… but if
the Russian does not exist, who wrote the poems", Edmundo de Ory answered
"Postismo did, my friend".
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