From black and white to color and from tube televisions to streaming platforms. The series have been there since the dawn of the medium and, on the other side, have always been the viewers: since (usually) the smallest of the house had to play the role of remote control until today, when we can watch virtually any content on our mobile. In other words: this communion has lasted more than half a century and now the SGAE is highlighting it with the exhibition The series of our life.
The exhibition, which is completely free, makes a “sentimental journey” through 60 years of television in our country through a hundred objects, such as photographs of filming, props and costumes, press clippings, promotional products, clapperboards or scripts and original story boards.
It is curated by television critic Lorenzo Mejino (author of the blog Series for gourmets of El Diario Vasco) and brings together a selection of more than 50 mythical productions of the small screen.
Which series are featured in the exhibition?
“They are series with which we have laughed, cried, suffered, loved… They have marked our lives and the history of our country, and without a doubt they have become inescapable references to understand who and how we are”, explains Maribel Sausor, head of SGAE’s Complementary Activities department.
As they say, they are not all there are, but they are all there are: from Los Tele-Rodríguez (which began broadcasting in February 1957) to others from the times of black and white such as El Séneca and Historias para no dormir by Ibáñez Serrador.
In color, productions that have marked an era as Cuéntame cómo pasó -the longest-lived of our television-, Verano azul, Curro Jiménez, Anillos de oro, Farmacia de guardia or Médico de familia. Without forgetting the most current ones, such as Élite,La casa de papel, Cardo or La Mesías.
Schedule
The exhibition can be visited from Monday to Sunday from 16h to 21h, with access through Pelayo street, 61. It will remain open to the public until next November 3.
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