Sculptor and painter Antonio López lent himself yesterday to a social and creative experiment that the Liceu is organizing this week at La Mannequin de Barcelona with the intention of "therapeutic a spot that's sick".
Sculptor and painter AntonioLópez lent himself yesterday to a social and creative experiment that the Liceu is organizing this week at La Mannequin de Barcelona with the intention of "therapeutic a spot that's sick". Within the context of the Barcelona Obertura Spring Pageant, the Gran Teatre has added to the occupation of emblematic locations within the metropolis that usually takes the Ciutat de Clàssica circuit of free concert events with a purpose to arrange an uncommon three-way dialog: between the Castilian artist (and his sculptures), Schubert (and his Winterreise) and the identical area of the outdated jail, within the tiny cells the place all of the anguish of these prisoners nonetheless resonates, in full silence that at sure occasions there have been sixteen the place there was barely room for 4. It was overcrowding or demise, since liberating up area meant sending a few of them to shoot Montjuïc.
Final night time's expertise – repeated immediately and tomorrow, at 7 p.m. doorways open and at 8 p.m. live performance – was the wildest proposal within the collection of Schubertian winter journeys that the Liceu proposes each season in dialogue with a special visible artist. Regardless of defending himself as a optimistic and vitalist, Antonio López (Tomelloso, 1936) generally contributes together with his figures and iconic heads to precise the other: the concept of the person expelled, deserted by society, the walker who undertakes the journey to demise.
The German baritone Benjamin Appl takes an energetic half dressed as a prisoner within the staging in the primary gallery of the previous penitentiary. A double flat display falls like a guillotine over James Baillieu's piano. Photographs by video creator Tal Rosner and animations by Bárbara Lluch (Núria Espert's granddaughter) and her workforce are projected, reinterpreting López's work. Typically in a extra modern type and others extra life like, additionally utilizing sources that evoke the inside world of each the prisoners who had been the middle and the Schubertian wanderer: the falling snow, the frozen mountain... Generós, Antonio López has given his total catalog to the artists for this reinterpretation.
The day earlier than, a brand new area for concert events had been added in Barcelona to these taking part within the Ciutat de Clàssica, and it turned out that it had uncommon acoustics. That is the perspective of the Glòries tower, which is accessed after visiting a multimedia exhibition within the basement of Jean Nouvel's constructing, the Hipermirador Barcelona.
Of all of the chamber ensembles scheduled for this off season of the Spring Pageant, the one one performing that has no ties to town: the younger and already award-winning Arete Quartet from Korea, who made their Spanish debut below the suspended set up Cloud Cities Barcelona, an interactive work by Tomás Saraceno that may be a net of 6 km of tensioned and related cables, forming 113 cloud areas. He offered a posh and spectacular program: Mendelssohn and the Kreutzer Sonata by Leos Janácek.
This 4th version of the Ciutat de Clàssica, which has the help of the Metropolis Council, involves an finish this weekend, having bought out in an hour. 2,700 individuals have handed by means of the competition, which nonetheless has concert events on the weekend on the Mies Van de Rohe and the Born Middle de Cultura.
On the Liceu, Spring continues immediately with Sara Blanch and René Pape, who replaces the introduced Xabier Anduaga, and at L'Auditori the OBC soloist is the pianist Isata Kanneh Mason.
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