The right -handed Roca Rey – who stars the cartel of the avant -garde painter Pablo Alonso Herriz An Álvaro Núñez livestock confinement.
The event has been presented at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Telmo in the capital of Malaga and is the first of the commemorative acts of the 150 years that the bullring of La Malagueta celebrates in 2025. In collaboration with Lances of the future, the bullfighting company directed by José María Garzón, the Provincial Council, owner of the Coso, has prepared for the occasion a special decoration; First, he will make a wink to his origins and the stripes of the ring will be painted red; The boxes will be adorned with garlands on the first floor, and with flags of Spain, Andalusia and Manila mantons of the time in the second.
On the other hand, the artist Pablo Alonso Herráiz, will take a tour of the different epochs of Picasso through an intervention in the tables, and will capture an original floral inspiration design, following the line of the walk cape that appears in the announcer poster . Finally, the bulls will be announced by megaphony, as was traditional in Malaga until well into the seventies.
According to Francisco Salado, president of the Provincial Council, the poster of the celebration of April 19 “is identified with the work of Herráiz, modern, groundbreaking and avant -garde, such as Picasso”, and stressed that “there is no more modern cultural demonstration in the world that the Fiesta de los Bulls ”. “That thrust as counterculture that bulls are causing among the youngest, is turning the party into the great avant -garde movement that exists today in Spain,” he added. He also thanked the Academy for the gesture of performing the act in its headquarters as a “sign of cultural sensitivity, but, above all, of courage and modernity.”
A note from the provincial agency notes that Pablo Alonso Herráiz “is one of the most important avant -garde painters of the national scene.” Born in Seville and based in Malaga for more than 30 years, he combines his artistic work with the teacher, as a professor at the University of Guadalajara (Mexico), and is the author of posters on different themes, such as the Holy Week of Malaga of the year 2007 and that of the first Picassiana run, among others.