December 9-13, 2004
Lucknow, India

Name:

Mr Pedro Jorge Roth



Mr Pedro Jorge Roth

 

Designation

Advisor

Organization/Institution

Fundación Pío Roncoroni – Escuela Siglo Nuevo and Universidad del Salvador – Buenos Aires

Country

Argentina

   

Short Biography

Mr. Pedro Roth is a photographer and painter with long experience in these two fields from the very beginning of his career. Because of his skills still photography and wide experience in the field he has been engaged by reputed photography organizations. He has worked with various publishers for photography portion of the publications. He has also worked with magazines and journals. He served us Chief of photographs for newspapers also. He has organized several exhibitions on photography.

Speech

La solidaridad desde San Martín de Tours.

San Martín de Tours era un soldad del Imperio Romano nacido en la actual Hungría. Un día de mucho frío se encuentra con un mendigo despreciado por todos. Toma su capa y la corta dos, le da una mitad al mendigo y conserva la otra. Esa noche tiene un sueño. En él se aparece Cristo y le revela que él mismo era el mendigo. A partir de ese momento, San Martín de Tours, hasta entonces pagano se convierte al Cristianismo. Actualmente es el Patrono de Hungría, Francia y de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.

La propuesta es organizar una muestra internacional sobre la metáfora de cortar la capa, como lo hizo San Martín de Tours. Utilizando esta capa en todas sus acepciones: políticas, el mundo también esta cortado de Norte a Sur; sociales, hoy nadie da ni la mitad de su capa al prójimo; educativas, cómo compartir la información. Pienso que el lenguaje del arte es el mejor vehículo para transmitir estos conceptos. Proponemos hacer una exposición mundial, de amplia convocatoria. Hacerla circular en todos los países participantes de este congreso, trasformando esta media capa en bandera.

Solidarity through San Martín de Tours

San Martín de Tours was a Roman soldier born in what nowadays would be Hungary. On a very cold day he encounters a beggar, despised by everyone. He grabs his cloak and cuts it in half, one piece he gives to the beggar and the other he keeps. That night he had a dream. In it, Christ appears and reveals to San Martín that he himself was the beggar. From that day on, San Martín de Tours, up to now a pagan became a Christian. Today he is the Guardian of Hungary, France and Buenos Aires city.

The proposal is to organize an international exhibition about the metaphor of cutting the cloak, as San Martín de Tours did. Using this cloak in its various meanings: political; the world is also cut from North to South; social, today nobody gives half of his cloak to his neighbor; educational, how to share information. I think that the language of art is the best way to spread these concepts. We suggest a world exhibition, of wide convocation.
Take it all around the countries gathered in this congress, turning this half cloak into an ensign.

   

Organized by
World Movement for Global Democracy (WMGD)*
*an initiative of City Montessori School (CMS), Lucknow, India