The magic and illusion flood the lecture of Mucho Mas Mayo festival, with a lecture-performance of Juan Cabrera and Miguel Puga, "From the magic of art or vice versa ', an event in which public participation will be essential.
It will be tomorrow, Wednesday May 13, at 20 pm in the Auditorium of the Museum of the Roman Theatre.
Miguel Puga 'MagoMigue' (Granada) is one of the most important Spanish illusionists nationally and internationally, and also one of the most comprehensive current showmen in the area of magicians and comedy shows, illusionists.
In recent years has mounted several shows of magic in different Spanish stages, as in bewilderment (1997), where is the ball?
(1998), The Worst of Spain (1999), Magomiscelánea (2000), Tonto, trademark (2004) and Card and Piano Concerto, opuspocus n º 1 (2005) and with actor Magiaderías Santi Rodríguez (2006).
He also collaborated on the film I Maat Ja Juan Muñoz (2000).
He has published two books: "Magic.
Stories from the history of magic 'and' Tales of Magic ', co-author.
Conceived, shaped and directed since its inception in 2002 the HocusPocus Festival in Granada, which is the international festival of Europe's biggest illusion, now in its seventh edition.
For his part, John J.
Cabrera Contreras (Vizcaya) is an artist, art critic, curator, director of the Virtual Gallery ACPA, editor of the Bulletin GV, author of several publications, and Professor of the Painting Department at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Granada , where he worked since 1986.
Since 2002 Juan Cabrera Miguel Puga and have stuck together on several occasions in a hybrid event, which is a serious academic conference of magic and fun show to 50% with a duration of approximately 100 minutes.
Since the component 'surprise' is relevant, data that can be offered in this proposal are very short on details.
The event is divided into two parts.
In the first staged reading of a perfectly academic conference, which is about how the foundation of the prestige of Art, which the conventional theory of art can not provide a reasoned and convincing, is in magic or illusion.
However, the traditional theory of art has sought explicitly to hide this inbreeding and eradicate the link between art and magic.
At the same time, for similar reasons, the magic has been reduced to a marginal form of art in modern societies.
The second part of the event is a spectacle of illusion in which public participation is crucial.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena