“The son of the Galician” is usually his most fooled nickname, but one that he carries with the greatest of pride, Matías recognizes, marveling at walking the streets of Cipole, which were once his. It is that Juan Carlos, that “Gallego”, his father, is part of the Cipoleño DNA since he actively participated in those years of social upheaval, which culminated in the so-called “Cipollettazo”.
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That is why it is not at all unreasonable to think that, in the midst of all this global chaos and pandemic, his wish is to present the book “The world’s pause” in his homeland. The one that served as the setting for the first kiss, gave him the profession that he exercises today in his office – today he has become a tripod that supports the cell phone, as happens to so many psychologists – and in which he garnered friendships “for the entire life, ”he says.
Matías de Rioja was born in Cipolletti, in 1981, and currently lives in the Federal Capital. He is dedicated to clinical psychology and is a university professor. He is the author of two other books of poems and collaborates with various written media.
“For me being here is very important,” he gestures excitedly. “When I spoke with the publisher and the possibilities of presenting the book, the first thing I thought was to do it in Cipolletti,” he added. “I am born here, I am the son of Gallego, Susana is my mother, and one of the poems that circulated the most in these months was ‘El son del Gallego’,” he explained.
I was born here, I am the son of the Gallego, Susana is my mother, and one of the poems that circulated the most in these months was ‘El son del Gallego’ ”.
Matías de Rioja.
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This Friday, at 9:00 p.m., Matías presents his collection of poems edited by South Leaves, together with his friend, the musician and also a psychologist, Javier Andrada. They will combine the songs of “Chavo”, as they say to Javier, along with the lyrics of Matías, at the Cipolletti Cultural Complex.
Tickets, free and free, are collected at the Complex’s box office (Fernández Oro 57), from 11am to 1pm and from 6pm to 9pm. By health protocol, only 100 people enter.
The event was organized by the Secretary of Culture of the Municipality of Cipolletti, in the efforts that they have been doing to recover the cultural sector, so hit and affected by the paralysis of last year, and that just in February they put on a show in the theater again of the Cultural Complex. As recorded, the application of protocols has been giving good results and has not become in any case of contagion.
There was a moment in the quarantine, in the first weeks especially, of a lot of strangeness, with the feeling that the outside had disappeared ”.
Matías de Rioja, on the reason for this book.
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After a very difficult year, in which the artist community was unable to present their productions to the public, De Rioja is more than eager to regain the bond with his readers, to meet friends, and to share what so many generated for him. months of confinement and pandemic. All this without mentioning that it will be in the city of your heart.
“There was a moment in the quarantine, in the first weeks especially, of great strangeness, with the feeling that the exterior had disappeared”, he expresses when faced with the question of why this book.
Matías was born in Cipolletti, in 1981, and currently lives in the Federal Capital. He is dedicated to clinical psychology and is a university professor. In addition to “La pausa del mundo”, he published the poems “Mufasa should not have died (written just in case)” (2014) and “Maybe you expected another thing” (2017), with which he does not stop collecting followers, who enjoy of that connection between the letters, Lacán and his discursive turns in the face of emotions.
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