Exhibitions "goya. disasters of war"
The City Council and the MAPFRE Foundation program a series of cultural activities on the occasion of the 'Goya.' exhibition. Disasters of War
The Mirador del Carmen will host a recital by musician Abraham Boba from the group 'León Benavente', a dance show by choreographer Luz Arcas and a conference by Leyre Bozal, curator of Collections at the MAPRE Foundation.
The exhibition of engravings 'Goya. Disasters of War' at the Mirador del Carmen is extended until March 31.
The Estepona City Council and the MAPFRE Foundation have programmed a series of cultural activities on the occasion of the 'Goya. Disasters of War. Fundación MAPFRE Collections', which can be visited until March 31 at the Mirador del Carmen.
The cycle of activities will begin next Tuesday, February 13, with the conference 'The fight for life' offered by the curator of Collections of the MAPFRE Foundation, Leyre Bozal in the Mirador del Carmen auditorium. With a degree in Art History, Bozal is a researcher and author of several books on art and has worked at the MAPFRE Foundation since 2009. The conference will begin at 8:00 p.m. and admission will be free until capacity is reached.
The next appointment will take place on February 15, at 8:00 p.m., with the musician and poet Abraham Boba. The member of the musical group 'León Benavente' will offer the recital 'Know your enemy' that he created for the occasion and which is based on the ancient text 'The art of war' by Sun Tzu. This artist from Vigo formed the group 'León Benavente' in 2013 and has written all of his songs for the four albums he has published to date. A contributor to media outlets such as Radio 3, he published his first collection of poems 'This is not a song' in 2021 with the Espasa publishing house.
The cycle of activities will end on Saturday, March 9, at 8:00 p.m., with the dance show 'The Thing and the Force' by the Malaga dancer and choreographer Luz Arcas, winner of the II Godot Prize 2023 for Best Dance Work for 'Mariana'. The artist has also been recognized with the El Ojo Crítico de Danza award in 2015 and has been a finalist for Best Female Dance Performer at the Talía Awards in 2023 and at the Max Awards in 2017 and 2022. Her repertoire has toured different countries, accompanied by teaching projects in Europe, Africa, America and Asia. She is also the author of the book 'I thought that dancing would save me'.
Invitations to performances by Abraham Boba and Luz Arcas will be available at the exhibition hall box office two days before each performance.
On the other hand, it should be noted that the City Council and the MAPRE Foundation have extended the exhibition period of the 'Goya. Disasters of War', so the exhibition can be visited until March 31. The collection is made up of 80 prints that Francisco de Goya y Lucientes made to express the pain and anguish he felt in the face of war events and their consequences on the civilian population.
Regarding the exhibition, it should be noted that Francisco de Goya's engravings constitute one of the most important parts of the MAPRE Foundation's collections and confirm the interest that this organization has always had in works on paper and specifically in the recorded work.
The modernity that Goya displays when representing a war and its consequences is fully valid today. He is undoubtedly the first artist to do so without praising the heroics of one side or the other, without taking sides. On the contrary, it shows the pain and barbarity of an event like this, and in doing so, universalizes it. Goya captures what happened during the War of Independence, but in reality it could be any war.
The exhibition can be visited free of charge by people registered in the city. The presence of these works by Goya consolidate the Mirador del Carmen as a national reference exhibition space. In that sense, it should be noted that the center was inaugurated with a pictorial collection by Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, in which an interesting tour of Spanish painting from the 19th and 20th centuries was made.
Information about the participants in the cycle of activities
Leyre Bozal (Madrid, 1978), has a degree in Art History from the Complutense University of Madrid. She began her professional career as a professor at said university and shortly after, she joined, also as a professor, the European Institute of Design, where she taught for four years. Since 2009 she has been curator of Collections at Fundación MAPFRE, a place where she has also carried out curatorial, coordination, scientific management of catalogues, etc...
Among his curated exhibitions, The Spirit of an Era stands out. Boldini and Spanish painting at the end of the 19th century'', September 2019-January 2020, Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid or Ignacio Zuloaga in the Paris of the Belle Époque 1889-1914, Madrid, Fundación MAPFRE, September 28, 2017-7 January 2018.
Much of her work focuses on writing, which seems to be the place where she feels most comfortable, and she has published books and articles on art, such as Pablo Picasso, Suite Vollard, 1930-1937, Madrid, Fundación MAPFRE , TF. Editors, 2009, Colás and his friend Velázquez, Antonio Machado books, Madrid, 2011, “Why does Lef fight?”, in AAVV., From Chagall to Malévich: art in revolution, Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, 2019, Il Mediterraneo come Genius loci, in AAVV., “L'alfabeto del segno e della materia, Joan Miró Genius Loci”, Palazzo Salmatoris, CHERASCO (CN). Catalogo della mostra, Araba Fenice Edizioni sas., Milano, 2022 or José Gutiérrez Solana, 98 beyond 98, Works from the Fundación MAPFRE Collections, in “José Gutiérrez Solana, Fundación MAPFRE Collections”, Madrid, 2023.
Abraham Boba is the pseudonym that David Cobas (Vigo, 1975) uses to sign all his works. In 2013 he formed the group Leo'n Benavente, in which he writes all the songs and with which he has published four albums to date. In 2021 he published his first collection of poems, This is not a song (Espasa) and created a show based on those texts. He is a regular contributor to some media outlets such as Radio3. Know Your Enemy is a recital created 'for the occasion, based on the ancient text The Art of War by Sun Tzu.
Luz Arcas founded the company La Phármaco in 2009. She has a degree in Choreography from the María de Ávila Superior Conservatory in Madrid and in Stage Direction from the Royal Higher School of Dramatic Art. Among his creations, Psicosis 4.48 stands out, in co-production with the Teatro Español (June 2023). Mariana (XXII Seville Flamenco Biennial, in co-production with Teatros del Canal and MA scène nationale – Pays de Montbéliard, October 2022 – April 2023).Todas las santos (FIT de Cádiz, in co-production with Teatro de la Abadía, November 2022) , Trilla, (duo with the composer Le Parody, Museo Thyssen Málaga, April 2022), Toná (Madrid Autumn Festival, in co-production with Teatro de la Abadía, November 2020), A great political emotion (Teatro Valle Inclán, in co-production with the National Dramatic Center, 2018), Miserere. When the night comes they will cover themselves with it (Teatros del Canal, 2017) and Kaspar Hauser. The Orphan of Europe (Madrid Autumn Festival, 2016).
Explore non-theatrical spaces such as And what does it matter, everything is grace (Picasso Museum of Málaga, Picasso-Calder exhibition, 2019), Room with my soul outside (Picasso Museum of Málaga, Bruce Nauman exhibition, 2019), La errancia (Centro of Contemporary Culture Conde Duque, Garden State, 2018), Chacona (Center Pompidou in Malaga, 2015) or Embodying what was hidden (King Juan Carlos Center in New York, 2015).
Bordo poniente is currently preparing its next dance piece that will take place in Guadalajara (Mexico), co-produced by the University of Guadalajara and which will premiere in November at the Teatro Experimental de Jalisco. He has recently choreographed the opera Rigoletto at the Teatro Real in Madrid, co-produced by the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, Bilbao and the Tel Aviv Opera House. He has choreographed for the IPCNA (Lima, Peru, 2021, together with the choreographer Luz Gutiérrez), for the National Company of El Salvador (Dolorosa, 2019 and La Anunciación, 2021) and for the Víctor Ullate Ballet (The most beautiful children, 2018 ). It also carries out other types of artistic and pedagogical projects such as World and Language (Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, 2016) or Tú que tiene la luz (National School of Drama of New Delhi, 2016).
His repertoire has toured different countries, accompanied by teaching projects in Europe, Africa, America and Asia. She is the author of the book I thought that dancing would save me, published in October 2022 in the publishing house Continta me tú.
Luz Arcas has been awarded the II Godot Prize 2023 for best dance work for Mariana, and has been a finalist for Best Female Dance Performer at the Talía Awards in 2023 and at the Max Awards in 2017 and 2022. She has also won the The Ojo Crítico de Danza in 2015, the award for best female dance performer at the Lorca Awards in 2015 and the Injuve and Málaga Crea awards in 2009.