La Mercè opens on the 24th with a contemporary look at Shakespeare with Rigola and Belbel

2024-01-09 18:10:57

A cycle that approaches the theater of William Shakespeare from the present day, with Jordi Coca, Sergi Belbel, Xavier Albertí, Salvador Oliva and Àlex Rigola, is the highlight of the start of the year at the La Mercè Cultural Center in Girona. In addition to the cycle Shakespeare avuithe Municipal School of Humanities (EMHU) will also start a new edition of Cinema and philosophywhile in the field of visual arts they stand out the exhibitions sew citiesby Pere Bellès, i bluesby Clara Gassiot.

Shakespeare today. Current views of Shakespeare from theatrical theory and practice will gather once a month from January to May some of the best specialists and most prominent theater professionals in the country who have worked in the Shakespearean canon: Jordi Coca, Sergi Belbel, Xavier Albertí, Salvador Oliva and Àlex Rigola. It is organized by the Tom Sharpe Chair of the University of Girona, in collaboration with the EMHU and coordinated by Jordi Sala Lleal. The sessions for this first term will be on January 30, February 20 and March 12.

After Lliterature and philosophy, Art and philosophy i Music and Philosophya new edition of Cinema and philosophy will put on the table six audiovisual works from different periods and the great philosophical challenges they raise from the hand of Pepa Balsach, Virginia García del Pino, Javier Rebollo, Eudald Espluga, Sergi Sánchez and Paula Kuffer.

As for theMunicipal School of Art (EMA) kicks off the exhibition season with the show sew cities, by the artist Pere Bellès, in which he proposes a visual route through the city in search of ascribed memory, searching for a dialogue with space and with the territory that forms part of everyone’s imagination. The inauguration will take place on January 18 and can be visited until March 1. From March 7 and until April 26, the Olot artist Clara Gassiot will take over with the exhibition blues, a pictorial proposal based on the vibrational frequency of colors, specifically, the color blue. The two samples will include a master class by the artist.

In addition, it starts this year a new collaboration between the EMA and the Catalan Association of Japanese Calligraphy with the exhibition Acashodo. It is a group exhibition with works by Gerardo D. Cristante, Eva Ibáñez Cano, Carme Feliu Latorre, Andi Dom Dom, Christian T. Arjona and Teresa Belmont, founding members of the association. Calligraphic pieces, Chinese ink landscapes, Shodo Art and abstraction can be seen there. The exhibition will close the pairing of Japanese calligraphy on ceramics by Lucinda Clay. The exhibition will be inaugurated on February 15 and can be visited until March 29.