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This year's poster has been designed by the Portuguese artist, Joana Vasconcelos |
It is often said that we live with our backs to Portugal.
That the Portuguese know us more to the Spaniards, than we to them.
La Mar de Músicas, the festival organized by the City Council of Cartagena and which will be held from July 19 to 27 in its 25th edition, wants to contribute to reverse this ignorance, and for this purpose it will show music, cinema, art and literature for 9 days. Luso country in the port city.
The Cartagena festival is announced, in this commemorative year, with a poster by Joana Vasconcelos, the most international artist in Portugal.
"If there is a festival in Europe of global music that stands out for its trajectory, musical quality and commitment to art in all its expressions, that is La Mar de Músicas, a festival that we organize from the City of Cartagena and that celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. We came to this 25th edition with mixed feelings, on the one hand, the sadness at the lack of Paco Martín, director and creator of the festival since its inception, and on the other, the joy that their festivals will continue, "he said. the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón in the presentation this morning at FITUR of the festival news.
"Paco has given us magnificent cultural projects for Cartagena, for the Region of Murcia and for Spain, and recently the Ministry of Culture has posthumously awarded him the Gold Medal of Fine Arts, and with him at the head, La Mar de Músicas has become a point of reference for all the global music festivals in Europe, it has been awarded as the best small format festival in Spain on several occasions and considered as the best cultural project in the Region of Murcia by the Contemporary Foundation since it analyzes the cultural fabric in our country We have the obligation to continue with their work, to continue with their projects, which are already of all Cartagena and the inhabitants of our region, "added the mayor of Cartagena.
"As a good director, Paco took a good team, which is working to ensure that the 25th edition is as good as the public deserves, an audience that accompanies us in greater numbers every year. Mar de Músicas This year from July 19 to 27, they will have a small Lisboa in Cartagena, because we are going to make a Special Portugal "indicated Castejón before showing the creation of Joana Vasconelos to announce the 2019 festival.
Joana Vasconcelos is said to be the great enfant terrible of Portuguese art, the most international and radical artist in the country.
His work collects Portuguese traditions to turn them into new icons, and behind them there is always a reflection on the identity and condition of the current woman.
This is reflected in the poster of La Mar de Músicas.
A photograph of the Piano Dentelle sculpture # 3 made by the Vasconcellos in 2016, where a piano and its bench are upholstered with crochet covers from the Azores Islands, which provoke a kinetic and psychedelic effect, in which the tradition is found, contemporary and the scholar.
The photograph of the work of Joana Vasconcellos has been converted into a poster by the communication company Germinal & Brandon Love, in close collaboration with the Portuguese artist, which reflects the funny vindictive wink at the popular culture of her country, so characteristic in its art.
Vasconcelos is a sculptor, a woman and a feminist.
All his work constitutes a demand.
His carefree and funny works contain, however, claims to the traditions of his country and denounce the lack of equality of women.
She feels very Portuguese, although she was born in Paris, where her parents fled due to the Salazar dictatorship.
They returned after the Carnation Revolution.
The artist has a strong bond with Spain.
His signature is among the most cited of international news.
His exhibitions at the 2005 Venice Biennale, at the Palace of Versailles 2015, and at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao last summer have marked his career.
The Portuguese joins the long list of Spanish artists who have made the image of the Cartagena festival such as Miquel Barceló, Cristina García Rodero, Joan Fontcuberta, Guillermo Pérez Villalta, Chema Madoz, Oscar Mariné, Ángel Mateo Charris, Dora Catarineu, Javier of Juan, Alberto García Alix, El Hortelano, Ouka Leele, Ceesepe, Javier Mariscal, Antonio de Felipe, Carmen Calvo, Ángel Haro and Juan Ugalde.
Joana Vasconcelos represents the new Portugal.
The one that combines tradition and modernity.
The one that wants to show La Mar de Músicas in its 25th edition.
And for this, from the festival they are working on the specials of music, cinema, art and literature that will make Cartagena host one of the largest cultural landings that has been made in Spain in the neighboring country.
It will be presented in the coming months.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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