If the buildings spoke, how many stories the Circle of Fine Arts could tell. 100 years are those that he turns under the motto Past, present, culturewith a festive billboard that brings together more than fifty proposals, from theater, cinema and photography to opera, electronic and traditional music, dialogues between thinkers, parties and awards.
The Centennial Gold Medal, the main recognition delivered by the Circle, falls from the Italian writer Antonio Scurati – dressed for his way of noticing, from literature, about the threats faced The broken, valued by the irony with which it portrays the social and political dynamics of Spain.
The Circle of Fine Arts has called to see this first century as a new starting point and has announced innovations: the opening its file to the public digitally, various collaborations and loans from its collection to reach different corners of Spain and a radio circle transformation into a Po Dcast platform.
Juan Miguel Hernández, president of the Circle of Fine Arts since 1995, has emphasized the social work of the institution and the importance of “humanistic values”: “We always claim creation, culture in the sense of claiming, of socially harassing to claim the values that are not easily forgotten and that, above all, are universal values. That stops the slaughter of Gaza.” To his complaint, the director of the Circle, Valerio Rocco, has added, highlighting the alliance with tile (network of cultural spaces in support of emergency situations) “which becomes increasingly important today in the framework of the unacceptable situation that is being experienced in Gaza”.
In his speech, where he has made a complete tour of the Centennial program, Rocco has renewed the institution’s commitment to “offer an open, free, transgressive and plural space for the arts, culture and thought”.
The building as the protagonist
A series of proposals will offer a tour of the hundred years of history. Stir The Circle of Fine Arts as a space of cultural agitation in the 80s and 90s It will arrive in February to tell the renewal that the institution had at the end of the last century.
The House of Arts. Open since 1926it is a collection that presents unpublished pieces such as plans, documents and photographs that detail the design and construction process of the building, which will be intervened in a call for different artists and groups in Minerva’s owl. The company the creative storage will allow the corners of the circle to be traveled with the performance In Perspective that will accompany the public with contemporary dance, architecture and music.
The season begins with an exhibition dedicated to those who would also have fulfilled their birth number 100. Martín Chirino. Circle memory Tribute to the Canarian sculptor, who was president of the Circle of Fine Arts between 1983 and 1992, and who, in the words of Juan Miguel Hernández “supposed an important turn” when he transformed the circle into a space “open to society, culture and contemporary art.”
On October 2, the photoperiodist Robert Capa will arrive at the corner, in the exhibition Icons In collaboration with Magnum Photos, where there will not only be photographs, but also period documents such as newspapers, books and personal objects.
From October to December, the study cinema will have a 1926 films cycle with live music, with projections such as The Volga Batelers, A Page of Madness o Fallen. Another activity of the big screen will be the cycle Housing is a right, not a privilege. Heritage cinemawith a group of feature films among which it stands out Human fueros, The roof, El Pizito o Rosetta.
The concerts of the camera circle start on October 12 with one of the five LIED recitals of the cycle Schubert Dualstarring German Christian Gerhaher.
Image, word, sound, scene. The dehumanization of art celebrates – also – the hundred years of the work of José Ortega y Gasset. They will be dialogues that will seek to talk about the current problems around the image, the word, the sound and the scene, with Ana Rodríguez Fischer, Ramón Andrés, Begoña Lolo and Alberto Conejero among the guests.
From October 21 it will begin Theory of ignorance. Seminar to decolonize philosophya series of sessions that invite to question the “canon which is the result of long centuries of racism and colonialism that have resulted in a great theory of ignorance.” Other dialogues that will take place the same month will be Contemporary teachers With tributes to Spanish creators, and Back to Gramsci: Europe and its emancipation horizons to study and discuss the writings of Youth of Antonio Gramsci.