The passing of time was one of the vital concerns of poet Jaime Gil de Biedma. He once mentioned that he wrote poetry so that he would never completely die, and today, on the 25th anniversary of his death, his work remains very much alive.  It is the passing of time that serves as a test to the permanence of literary work. Borges said that that a poet’s success is in direct relation to the degree of enthusiasm or of indifference, of generations of anonymous individuals who put it to test in the privacy of their own libraries. Gil de Biedma undoubtedly passes this ultimate test. He agrees with the popular notion that there is no such thing as aging.

The exhibition En palabras de Jaime Gil de Biedma (In the words of Jaime Gil de Biedma), aims to portray all his glory as a poet and an intellectual. To hear his words, his poetry, his thoughts, all that has made him a unique author, remembered, widely read and reinterpreted through several generations. The exhibition in conversation format, another of his great passions, portrays the purest form of Gil de Biedma. 

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• As part of the activities for "25 years without Gil de Biedma”
• Curator Inés García-Albi Gil de Biedma
• Executive Producer Pere Roca
• Exhibition design Pep Boltà
• Audiovisual Production Manager Maria Basora
• Audiovisual Producer Antonio Cortés
• Music Producer David Amills
• Sound Production Tàrek Ryan and Raimon Segura
• Audiovisual Postproduction Adrià Fernández
• Actor Carlos Reyes
• Literary Adviser Andreu Jaume
• Voice sound Pere Roca, Marcos Isamat, Olivier Peissel, Luís Gil de Biedma
• Audiovisual Archive Filmoteca de Catalunya, Historic Archives of the City, Familia Viza, Familia Villavecchia, Maria Ripoll, José Luís López Linares, Llorenç Soler.
• Organized Arts Santa Mònica – Departament de Cultura
• With the collaboration of AC/E Acción Cultural Española and Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial