“The children’s response is surprising. It is a good opportunity for them to know this work that is still current, all of Quino’s work is still currentWe have the same social and family problems as when the character was created, ”he said.
As if entering a black-on-white comic strip, the exhibition takes the audience into Quino’s life and delves into the characters that made him famous with images, interactive activities, and workshops.
The exhibition “The world according to Mafalda” will visit Mexico with a stop in: Mexico City, Monterrey, Puebla and Mérida in the coming months.
The viewer travels through the intimacy of spaces that were part of the comic strip, such as the dining room where Mafalda refuses to eat noodle soup, her wardrobe, her desk and a family album.
Nor could they miss the records and posters of The Beatles, his favorite group.
It also recreates part of the apartment where the family lived and the car where they traveled on vacation, a 1960s Citroen, a replica of the one owned by Quino, Rosas explained.
Sarcasm, critical and progressive thinking that defines Mafalda They have a special place in the show with a series of worlds sculptures, as she conceived them in the comics, and with a space that is used to disseminate the Declaration of Children’s Rights.
“The world according to Mafalda” is an exhibition created in 2007 as a tribute to “Quino”, and since then it has traveled Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Costa Rica until reaching Mexico.