José Luis Picón I Málaga, (EFE) of the artist on December 31 at the age of 101.
The texts are gathered in the notebook “La caspa”, included in the Arroyo de la Manía collection of the Malaga publisher Rafael Inglada, who makes a print run of only fifty copies of each issue.
“He wanted to have published the poems on the occasion of his centenary in 2021, but due to the pandemic, Ginés refused and was delayed,” he explains in an interview with EFE Inglada, who received verbal permission from Liébana himself while still alive and has now had the approval of his son Mateo.
Liébana sent him the originals in that first publication attempt and even wrote a brief note for the notebook, says the editor.
“Ginés Liébana, marginal dwarf of luxury, clandestine beautician, who has remained for a long time in the zeta of zu zilenzio without expiring, because it is made of stainless steel, writing, painting and other derivatives of the same, without knowing if he was a painter or a writer” , the artist defines himself at the beginning of the notebook.
Surreal and dream world
According to Inglada, the poet and painter from Cántico saw those poems as “something fun” and, in the hardest moments of the pandemic, it did not seem “appropriate” to publish them, so he decided to wait.
“I had asked him for some poems to publish in Arroyo de la Manía and he looked me up for these, because he had a vast and poetic body of work. He wrote every day and did so until the end of her life, while painting had already left her, ”she points out.
In the texts contained in the notebook “there is the surreal and dreamlike world that he always had”, highlights Inglada, who adds that Liébana “is considered above all a painter, but he also has many followers as a writer”, and in both fields “he has a very marked universe”.
Inglada maintained a long friendship with Liébana and in 1987 even published some verses by the poet from Cántico dedicated to Marlene Dietrich which, as the editor discovered years later, was the first poem that this author published in his life. EFE