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(Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:38:50 +0000) -

Marbella Town Hall has announced to organize a screening of the documentary film entitled
“La mirada de Ouka Leele” (The look of Ouka Leele), the 2010 finalist for the Goya Awards in the category
Mejor Pel�cula Documental (Best Documentary). The director of the movie Rafael Gordon will attend this special screening scheduled for March 11th (Thursday) in the hall of the Museum of Contemporary Spanish Engravings.
The film portrays the life and work of Spanish painter and photographer Barbara Allende (the real name of artist Ouka Leele), born in June 1957 in Madrid. The artist herself once said that photography is “visual poetry, a way of talking without using words”. And in the same sense, the film discusses how to develop the creativity of a genius, passion and struggle in the mind, painting and photography.
Barbara’s artistic career coincides with the beginning of a cultural revolution in Spain that went beyond music with experimentation in all kinds of art forms. The creation of a 240 square meters mural from start to finish in the village of Ceuti Murcia is the best work to unify memories and sketches of 40 years long work of this artist. In the words of Gordon Raphael, “Undoubtedly, this is the work of a genius, a remarkable woman but that word is not used.”
Black and white photographs, coloured paintings and serigraphs are some of her signature style works. However, when she started to create something new in the early years of her career she began taking black and white photographs and then....
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