DRACULA: A MONSTER WITHOUT REFLECTION

One hundred years after Bram Stoker’s death, his, Count Dracula is in great health, despite having grown up in the darkness of a tomb. The cinema, comic book and literature have made sure that Dracula has become a popular culture myth, constantly reinterpreted by artists in all genres.   This exhibition pays homage to Stoker a century after his death, bringing together parts of the vampire traditions that inspired him, but above all revisiting his biography: his friendships with Walt Whitman and Mark Twain as well as his relationships with other Victorian contemporaries, such as Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling… Documents are provided that shed light on the creative process involved in Dracula until the publication of the first edition of the novel in 1897. It provides us with a graphic anthology of filmmakers and illustrators who have appropriated Count Dracula since Murnau put the monster’s face in his film Nosferatu in 1922, right up until today, with the latest interpretations of the myth from illustrators, such as Ana Juan, Fernando Vicente, Miguel Ángel Martín and Toño Benavides