The José Manuel Navia exhibition, proposed as part of the 2016 celebration of the 400th anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes, is presented as a visual journey through the places and paths travelled by Miguel de Cervantes throughout his troubled and uncertain life, which is revealed to us in a veiled manner in his works. It is, above all, the biography of a person of whom it could be said "that palaces were not his world", as his biographer, Jean Cannavagio, states, recalling Tomás Rodaja in El Licenciado Vidriera. Cervantes was not rewarded in life for his awakenings and misfortunes, other than with the greatness of his works. And yet, in his last moments, he did not waste a drop of his life. Already ill, a few days before his death he added the finishing touches to the Persiles and wrote in the prologue that “Time is brief, anxieties grow, hopes diminish and, with this, I carry out my life with my desire to live.”

This work traces his life and work and forms the personal view of somebody who wants to make his own and share, through the image and the text, that Cervantine territory, both real and literary, which runs from Alcalá de Henares through Italy, Greece, Tunisia, Algeria, Portugal and most of Spain: Madrid, Castile-La Mancha, Extremadura, Seville and the whole of Andalusia, Valladolid, Barcelona...

The images that make up the exhibition (42 newly produced photographs) will be accompanied by detailed texts and literary quotations linking the images to the writer's life and work.

Organizes 
Acción Cultural Española, AC/E
Instituto Cervantes
Arts Santa Mònica. Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya

Coordination
Alma Guerra (AC/E)

Project
Carmen Martín Eizaguirre