SPANISH LANGUAGE & CULTURE SPRING/SUMMER 2019 1 Cesc Gay. Photo by David Ruano Cesc Gay. 211 EAST 49TH STREET NEW YORK, NY 10017 WHO WE ARE WORKING TEL. 212.308.7720 Instituto Cervantes is an international non-profit organization founded by Spain in 1991 to promote the Spanish language and Spanish and Hispanic-American culture [email protected] through language classes, public programming and access to our extensive library. newyork.cervantes.org TOGETHER We are present on five continents with more than 75 centers spread out across many different countries. EXECUTIVE OFFICE ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT SPONSORSHIP: BE A PART, PLAY A PART Ignacio Olmos, Executive Director María Noguerol Martín, Director Enrique García Fernández Support Instituto Cervantes New York and consider making a tax-deductible donation. 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(Spain) $5,000 Benefactor Tax deductible $4905 BROCHURE COORDINATOR Sofía Cerdá (México) Ana Vázquez Barrado Úrsula Mocoso ( Peru) For more info about our memberships you can email us at: [email protected] Vanesa Albertos (Spain) Verónica Gálvez (Spain) Yurién Ribot (Cuba) yoUR DONatION IS VERY IMPORtaNT to THE SUCCESS OF OUR MISSION AND WE THANK yoU FOR yoUR GENEROSITY. 2 3 WELCOME This summer, Instituto Cervantes offers an ambitious and varied program, full of activities and cultural proposals from Spain and Latin America. Among our exhibitions, we invite you to follow the trail left in New York by one of the most emblematic poetic voices of the 20th century in Spain, León Felipe; we remember group El Paso, which defined and shaped the post-war avant-garde art of such renowned artists as Rafael Canogar, Juana Francés or Pablo Serrano, and we sneak into the dressing room of the renowned conductor Pablo Heras Casado through the photographic gaze of Fernando Sancho. These proposals are joined by round tables such as “The Future of Europe”, in which professors such as Jan Willem Duyvendak and Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca will discuss alongside diplomat Agustín Santos- Maraver on the rise of populism; series of conferences such as “80 Years of Spanish Exile in the US”, with which we want to recover the memory of the republican diaspora and make its cultural and human contribution to New York City known; and talks such as the one that Canadian journalist Naomi Klein will hold with activist Jamia Wilson on the role of the media in social justice movements. The cinematographic proposals will come from Festivals such as “Panorama Europe Film Festival”, “Galician Film and Food Festival”, “The Americas Film Festival”, “Mamalluca Chilean Film Festival”, together with the staging of Upstairs Neighbors -theatrical debut opera by Catalan film director Cesc Gay- and musical experiences ranging from cantaora Clara Montes to the flamenco-fusion group Ketama. These are all joined by our familiar wine tastings, book clubs and tango workshops, all under the goal of sharing the cultural wealth of the global Hispanic world. Un verano más, el Instituto Cervantes les ofrece una programación ambiciosa y variada, cargada de actividades y propuestas culturales llegadas desde España y Latinoamérica. Entre nuestras exposiciones, les invitamos a seguir el rastro que dejó en Nueva York una de las voces poéticas más emblemáticas del siglo XX español, León Felipe; recordamos al grupo El Paso, que definió y configuró el arte vanguardista de posguerra de la mano de artistas tan reconocidos como Rafael Canogar, Juana Francés o Pablo Serrano, y nos colamos en el camerino del reputado director de orquesta Pablo Heras Casado a través de la mirada fotográfica de Fernando Sancho. A estas propuestas se unen mesas redondas tan necesarias como “The Future of Europe”, en la que profesores como Jan Willem Duyvendak e Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca reflexionarán junto al diplomático Agustín Santos-Maraver sobre el auge del populismo; ciclos de conferencias como “80 Years of Spanish Exile in the US”, con el que queremos recuperar la memoria de la diáspora republicana; y charlas como la que la periodista canadiense Naomi Klein mantendrá con la activista Jamie Wilson en torno al papel que juegan los medios de comunicación en los movimientos de justicia social. Las propuestas cinematográficas vendrán de la mano de Festivales como “Panorama Europe Film Festival”, “Galician Film and Food Festival”, “The Américas Film Festival”, “Mamalluca Chilean Film Festival”, a los que se une la puesta en escena de Upstairs Neighbours -ópera prima teatral del director de cine catalán Cesc Gay- y experiencias musicales que van desde la cantaora Clara Montes hasta el flamenco-fusión de Ketama. A ello se unen nuestras ya habituales catas de vinos, los clubs de lectura y los talleres de tango, todo con el objetivo de compartir la riqueza cultural del mundo global hispano IGNACIO OLMOS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR >> FallSpring/Summer 2017 2019 Table of Contents L ART 8 ARTE LITERATURE 20 LITERATURA CRITICAL THINKING 44 PENSAMIENTO ARTES ESCÉNICAS PERFORMANCE 56 Y MÚSICA CINEMA 80 CINE THE ART EL ARTE DE OF FOOD110 LA COCINA LIBRARY114 BIBLIOTECA RENTALS118 ESPACIOS SPANISH CURSOS COURSES120 ESPAÑOL CALENDAR124 CALENDARIO CULTURA ART E Hierros encontrados y soldados, 1957. Pablo Serrano ARTE ART DESIGNDIALOGUE OF THE ARTS PABLO HERAS CASADO: Photography & MUSIC AT HOME IN THE WHOLE WORLD BY FERNANDO SANCHO Although frozen in time, a picture can provoke the same feeling as music does. Not for nothing, both arts share a common interest: time and space. The exhibition Pablo Heras Casado: at home in the whole world is a series of images that display the work of the conductor Pablo Heras Casado. In this body of work, photographer Fernando Sancho combines light with sound to bring the musical language closer to the visual. Fourteen black and white photographs will be shown helping us observe the universe of one of the most internationally consolidated Spanish musicians. Aunque fijada en el tiempo, una fotografía evoca tanto sentimiento como aquel que viene de la música. No en vano, ambas artes comparten un interés común: el tiempo y el espacio. La exposición Pablo Heras Casado: at home in the whole world es una serie de imágenes que dan muestra del trabajo del director de orquesta Pablo Heras Casado. En ella, Fernando Sancho emparenta la luz con el sonido para acercar el lenguaje musical al visual a través de catorce fotografías cuya apuesta por el blanco y negro nos ayudará a observar el ejercicio de abstracción de uno de los músicos españoles más consolidados internacionalmente. Photo by Fernando Sancho Pablo Heras Casado: at home in the whole world. WHAT Opening: Thursday, April 4th 7 pm Apr. WHEN April 4th to May 21th 4th WHERE Instituto Cervantes. Free Admission RSVP [email protected] 10 >> exhibition GALLERY HOURS M-F: 10 am-7 pm. Sat: 10 am-2 pm 11 DESIGNDIALOGUE OF THE ARTS Spanish TRANSITION History, CINEMA & ART to DEMOCRACY MOVIES´ POSTER TELLING Stories WITHIN THE History CURATED BY LAURA GÓMEZ VAQUERO During the years of the Transition in Spain (1974-1982), cinema played an active role in the succession of changes taking place in the country. It was uniquely able to capture the different manifestations of a society confronting an iron-clad past, an unstable present, and an uncertain future. Numerous films undertook, from novel perspectives, a revision of the recent past, mainly, of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the dictatorship. Others, on the other hand, addressed current issues such as, for example, questions of gender, and of course, the newfound freedom of expression, whose most direct (and superficial) materialization were the films that, for a short period of time, circulated under the classification S (soft-core porn). Durante los años de la Transición española (1974-1982), el cine participó de manera activa en los cambios que se sucedían en el país. Supo, de manera especial, captar los diversos estados de una sociedad enfrentada a un férreo pasado, un inestable presente y un futuro incierto. En este sentido, fueron numerosas las películas que emprendieron, desde perspectivas novedosas, una revisión del pasado reciente, principalmente de la Guerra Civil (1936-1939) y de la dictadura; otras, por el contrario, abordaron asuntos de actualidad como la política, cuestiones de género y, por supuesto, la recién estrenada libertad de expresión, cuya materialización más directa y superficial fueron las películas que, durante un breve periodo, circularán clasificadas como «S» (soft-core porn). Poster of Cría Cuervos, directed by Elías Querejeta WHAT Opening: Thursday, May 16th 7pm May WHEN May 16th to June 20th 16th WHERE Instituto Cervantes.