Ramón Valencia, an entrepreneur of the Plaza de la Maestranza, said last Tuesday, the presentation of the posters of the Sevillian fertilizer, that the April Fair “is solid, topped, balanced and luxury.” What he did not say is that it is also discriminatory and dependent on the compounds of the bullfighting business.
The story says that Seville is the mother and teacher of bullfighting, but sometimes it looks like a grumpy and provincial stepmother and a mentor without criteria.
The teacher is not another place; Compete with sales for the Bully scepter, and, as such, its fair must be open and universal in bulls and bullfighters. It is not worth repeating year after year a campus of commercial livestock to the taste of the figures or configuring views of seen and amortized bullfighters.
It is legitimate, of course, that the businessman presents the posters that, in his opinion, will mobilize the ticket offices and the benefit, but Seville cannot be just a business.
Why isn’t Emilio just in the posters if he has triumphed in the previous two years? Because the Matilla House does not hold it
The responsibility is not exclusively from the businessman; Also of the Royal Maestranza de Cavalía, owner of the square, and who lives from his turnover; And of the Sevillian fans, as wise as it was, but as silent, passive and permissive as it is. The fair is shot, Yes, but not balanced; Morante’s presence ends everything, hence the businessman thanked him for “his commitment to his land, his fans and his place,” and forgot to add “with the company.” And it is not balanced because a fundamental bullfighter is missing such as Emilio de Justo. There are no excuses. The businessman’s obligation is that those who have to be. Nor will Paco Ureña, Fernando Adrián, Antonio Ferrera …
But why isn’t Emilio just in the posters if he has triumphed in the previous two years? It is not because it is not from Triana and takes over Tauroemotion, who runs an independent man named Alberto García. Would it have been left out of the fair if the Matilla house seized it? Well no. In the same professional situation – represented by bullfights that do not belong to the jet set– They are Ureña, Adrián and Ferrera (East is also free). What a coincidence that the four are out of the posters.
Why are Castella and Manzanares so well placed? Because the Matilla House seizes them. For the same reason that the Fandi returns one more year. Does Cayetano merit accumulate to say goodbye in Seville included on Fair Saturday in a poster with Roca Rey? No, but it belongs to establishment of bullfighting, and perhaps the Peruvian bullfighter wants to return the favor he did with a providential quite at the Santander Fair of 2023. If so, better invite him to dinner instead of occupying a position that does not correspond to him.
And the bulls? Of the more than 1,100 livestock that pasting Spain, the same 15 of almost every year – with the exception of Fuente Ymbro – and four of them repeat. It will not be due to the demands of the fans … Does the Real Maestranza comment, who is called to preserve the universality of the square? No, the teachers are limited to charging around 22 percent of the gross billing of each celebration, keep silent and presume to be very comfortable homemade.
Teachers limit themselves to collecting around 22 percent of the gross billing of each celebration, and presume to be very comfortable homemade
This year, by the way, they have shown that their concern for bullfighting matters is scarce. The Real Maestranza is in charge of choosing the pictorial work that will head the posters of the celebrations; and since 1994 he invites national and foreign painters to offer his particular vision of the world of bulls. This year, the chosen artist has been the Austrian painter Martha Jungwirth, who uses an abstract figurative art. He accepted the commission, but he has not turned his head much, so that he left for half his painting that hung in a personal exhibition held last year at the Guggenheim Museum and the fragment presented him to the Real Maestranza, who has accepted it without grinding. It is the only picture of all those made so far that it does not apparently, any relationship with bullfighting, but there will be for history throughout the Sevillian bullfighting of 2025.
And the fans? Would you have to comment on bull and bullfighter posters and the Austrian painter? If it existed, yes, but it does not exist. And we should ask if, ever in history, the lying Wise From the square they have worried about the prestige of the teacher or have preferred to look exclusively at their silent and tortist belly.
Anyway, that for each other, between the business and commitments of the businessman, the passivity of the Real Maestranza and a non -existent hobby, the years go by, and the mother and teacher loses her prestige and the respect and affection she had one day.
Hopefully the square takes many days and the businessman wins the money that his effort deserves, and the real teacher manages to fill her coffers to continue with her extraordinary care work, but someone, among all those responsible, should realize that the teacher needs to be more than a fruitful business before it is too late.
“Go to a war without weapons”
“Emilio de Justo’s offer to deal alone the run of the fifth is like going to a war without weapons,” said businessman Ramón Valencia in the presentation of the posters when asked about the absence of the bullfighter. Did, perhaps, that Emilio de Justo has no category to lock himself in Seville with six bulls?
“In the 25 years that I have presented the posters, I have never missed my word, if I had given it; And the date on which he will deal with his bulls is never promised, ”he added in relation to the decision of the livestock of La Quinta to withdraw his bulls in disagreement with the afternoon of preferred chosen by the company.
“That unwritten law of bullfighting is fulfilled that consists in rewarding who triumphs,” he said without more when asked about the absence of other bullfighters.
And about the television broadcast of the fair it was conclusive: “There will be no television because there has been no interesting offer; we have maintained contacts with OneToro, but they have nothing to offer”
Some journalists who were present at the act that the press conference was tense, that the manager of the Pagés company eluded the topics of draft and resigned to offer convincing explanations.
The businessman and his son, Ramón Valencia Canorea, who accompanied him, offered before the awkward questions some data about the fair:
– 28 killers will perform in the 51 posts available in the 17 bullets announced; 27 of these bullfighters are Sevillians, which is 52.94 percent of the total.
– The price of loose towns increases 2.8 % compared to that announced the previous year according to the CPI. There is a wide variety of prices: from € 31 in high sun and from € 67 in high shadow. “
– The price of fertilizer for retirees and young people under 21 years (250 locations) has been reduced by 20%, and is established at 450 euros. Those who have the cultural bond may use it for the purchase of tickets.