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cultural programme march 2015

© Courtesy Geoffrey Parker exhibition

Nature: a cultural artefact A project by Gloria Ceballos

THU 12 FEB – FRI 21 MAR

MON – FRI 10:30am – 7:00pm SAT 10:30am – 3:30pm Exhibition Room, Admission free Further information: http://www.gloriaceballos.com © Gloria Ceballos. Porcelain Plate, 2015

Nature: a cultural artefact* represents Gloria Ceballos constant about the human relationship with nature as the centre of her practice. As city inhabitants our experiences of nature are restricted to parks, gardens and other green areas within our cities: the “cultured nature”. We call green spaces a natural environment, when in they are human-controlled places. and theorized. The “three ” concept studied for many authors sinceIn our Cicero aim to andcontrol developed everything, by Landscapenature is classified, theorist, organised, John Dixon designed, Hunt is the focus of Ceballos latest series of work presented in this solo exhibition at the Instituto Cervantes in London.

Nature: a cultural artefact* is the title of Gloria Ceballos thesis presented at the Royal College of Art, London in 2015. LITERATURE LECTURE SERIES

SPANISH AND LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE MIGUEL DE CERVANTES AWARDS. CARLOS FUENTES, DE LA AFRENTA AL MELODRAMA: ESTÉTICA, VIOLENCIA Y FAMILIA EN LA OBRA RECIENTE DE CARLOS FUENTES By Prof. Steven Boldy (University of Cambridge)

MON 09, 6:30pm

In English Organised by the Embassy of Spain in the UK and Instituto Cervantes London In collaboration withOffice the of Institute Cultural ofand Modern Scientific Language Affairs, Research Institute of Modern Language Research, Senate House, Room 246 Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Admission free Booking essential: [email protected] Carlos Fuentes Latin American writers.Fuentes,pursued his studies in law at the University of Mexico. He graduated (Panamá at the 1928 Institute – México of International D.F. 2012) was and one Development of the most Studiesprolific in story collection, Los Días Enmascarados (Masked Days, 1954) was followed by his Geneva, Switzerland, then he entered the diplomatic service. Fuentes’s first short immediate success, which let him pursue a full-time writer career. In 1962 he publishedfirst novel hisWhere best-known the Air is novel, Clear The(La regiónDeath ofmás Artemio transparente, Cruz (La 1958). muerte It dewas an Artemio Cruz), that won him recognition as one of Latin America’s leading young authors. It was inspired by the stories his grandmothers had told him about the Mexican Revolution and its aftermath.He won many awards. These included Mexico’s Alfonso Reyes Prize (1979), and the Premio Miguel Cervantes from Spain (1987) as well as honorary doctorates from universities in the US and the UK including Warwick, Harvard, Cambridge and the University of California, Los Angeles. Prof. Steven Boldy (, 1951) graduated in Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge University and he obtained his Ph. D. with ‘A Study of the Novels of Julio Cortázar’ in 1978. He has lectured at Liverpool University, University of Leeds, Tulane University (New Orleans, USA) and Cambridge University, where he has been the Head of Department of Spanish and Portuguese for two years and works today as Professor of Latin American Literature. Among his books, is worth to mention The Novels of Julio Cortázar (Cambridge: CUP), Memoria Mexicana, The Narrative of Carlos Fuentes and A Companion to Jorge Luis Borges (Tamesis, 2009). HISTORY, LITERATURE AND THOUGHT great BRITISH hispanists series #6: PROF. GEOFFREY PARKER In conversation with Dr. Julio Crespo Mac Lennan

TUE 17, 6:30pm

In English Auditorium Instituto Cervantes London Admission free Booking essential: [email protected] | 0207 201 0752 Further information: www.londres.cervantes.es © Courtesy Geoffrey Parker

Professor Geoffrey Parker will be interview by Julio Crespo MacLennan. Noel Geoffrey Parker is a British historian specializing in Spanish and military history of the early modern era. His best known book is Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800 Amongst the foreign honours he holds, he is a member of the Order of Alfonso X, first the Wisepublished and was by Cambridge granted the University Great Cross Press of the in 1988.Order of Isabella the Catholic by the Spanish government. He has received honorary doctorates from the Catholic University of Brussels (Belgium) and the University of Burgos (Spain). He is a fellow of the British , the Spanish Real Academia de la Historia, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. Prof. Parker has taught at the University of Illinois, the University of St. Andrews and Yale University. He is currently the Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History at The Ohio State University. arts

NIGEL GLENDINNING MEMORIAL LECTURE: Clay, something more than and water. Baroque Spanish pottery symbolic values By Prof. Alfonso Pleguezuelo

THU 19, 6:30pm

In English Organised by ARTES, Iberian & Latin American Visual Culture Group and Instituto Cervantes Londres Auditorium Instituto Cervantes London Tickets £6, free for members of ARTES and Instituto Cervantes London Booking essential: [email protected] | 0207 201 0752 © Courtesy ARTES 2015

Alfonso Pleguezuelo is a Professor of History of Art at the University of Seville. His doctoral thesis was based on early baroque architecture of Seville; He has recently published some articles on Spanish Baroque sculpture, especially from Luisa Roldán, who was a of Spanish ceramics of the Modern Age. He is the author of several museumsculptor toprojects Felipe and IV. Hehas has curated spent several most of exhibitions his research on on this the matter, field the last of which took place in 2014 at the Museum of the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon “The Splendour of Cities. The Route of the medievalist archaeologists published in “Medieval Ceramics” an articleTiles”. Inand this was field also I had a personal years ago friend contacts of Anthony with the Ray group through of British which he could learn about the collections of Spanish pottery preserved in museums Oxford, Cambridge and, above all, in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British in London. His contribution to the International Colloquium “A Splendid Isolation ?. Spanish Cultural Identity and the Visual Arts 1500-1700. “Held in 1997 at the Victoria & Albert Museum, which dealt Juan Floris, ceramist the service of symposium held later in Antwerp. Philip II, was finally published in the Proceedings of another THEATRE DRAMATISED READING

Eloisa is Under an Almond Tree By Spanish Theatre Company

FRI 20, 6:00pm

In English With the collaboration of the Embassy of Spain in the UK and Instituto Cervantes London Media partner El Ibérico Office of Cultural and Scientific Affairs, Water Culture Space, 21 Surrey Quays Road, London, SE16 7AR Tickets £8 Further information: http://canadawaterculturespace.org.uk/events/eloisa-under-al- mond-tree-performed-spanish © Courtesy Spanish Theatre Company

This play narrates a number of unforeseen incidents in the of become caught in the mystery of a disappearance, from years ago, of Eloisa,Fernando, a woman his fiancé with Mariana a suspicious and their physical respective resemblance families. to TheyMariana. The secrets and misunderstandings that occur in the play to other misunderstandings and to hilarious situations.

Enrique Jardiel Poncela (1901-1952) was a Spanish writer and playwright. His works, related to the Theatre of the Absurd, moved away from traditional humour to a more intellectual, improbable and illogical one. This was a break with the naturalism that was dominant in the Spanish theatre of his time. Indeed, he was attacked by the majority of the critics then, since his humour wounded delicate sensibilities and opened up a range of comic possibilities that were not always well understood. Besides, he ran into problems with censorship under the Franco regime. Nevertheless, the passing years have led to an increasing recognition of his works and they continue to be performed, many having had films based upon them. In collaboration with