Cultural Programme March 2016

HISTORY ART ART Great Hispanists Series: Mother Nature Isadora Rose-de Viejo:

Prof. Henry Kamen “The Paper Palace” Fri 4, 6.30pm - Opening, Until Wed 30 Yunus Emre Institute, 10 Maple St

Thu 3, 6.30pm London, W1T 5HA Tue 15, 6.30pm Instituto Cervantes, 102 Eaton Square Instituto Cervantes, 102 Eaton Square

London, SW1W 9AN In her paintings, Terry Katalan aims to portray a timeless London, SW1W 9AN

concept of nature through the use of materials derived The history of the Royal Wallpaper Factory in Madrid Prof. Henry A. Kamen (Rangoon, 1936), is a British directly from it. historian living in Barcelona. Fellow of the Royal was virtually unknown for over the past thirty years. In her original and innovative study (the first of its kind Historical Society (London) since 1970. Professor of Terry Katalan (Istambul 1965) was born in a Sephardic in Spain), Isadora Rose-de Viejo examines its history the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in family and lived many years in Barcelona. Her art during the reign of four monarchs using documents Barcelona from 1993 until his retirement in 2002, he works have been published in ‘Artistas para el Museo rescued in dozens of Spanish and French archives. continues lecturing and writing, i.a. for the Spanish de Mañana’ and many other Spanish art magazines. Isadora Rose-de Viejo is a former curator at The daily newspaper El Mundo. After curating the exhibition in the Royal Institute of Hispanic Society of America in New York and currently British Architects (2012), she was honoured to present an independent scholar specialising in Spanish art of Among his publications: The Disinherited; Exile and one of her paintings as a gift to HM Queen Elizabeth the late 18th and early 19th centuries. the Making of Spanish Culture, 1492–1975 (2007), II to celebrate her 60th Jubilee year. She has exposed Imagining Spain. Historical Myth and National Identity her paintings in Istanbul, Barcelona, Girona, Madrid, An event of ARTES (Iberian & Latin American Visual (2008), The Duke of Alba (2004), Empire: How Spain Frankfurt, London and Paris. Became a World Power, 1492–1763 (2003), Spain Culture Group) with the support of the Spanish Em- bassy, the British Spanish Society and the Instituto 1469–1714: a Society of Conflict(2005). An exhibition of the Yunus Emre Institute with the Cervantes. collaboration of Instituto Cervantes. In English In English – Free entry Free entry RSVP by 1 March: [email protected] RSVP: http://bit.ly/HenryKamen_ICLondon RSVP: http://bit.ly/paperpalacemadrid

LITERATURE FILM / LITERATURE Cervantes Prize Winners Series: The Fifth Horseman. A vision of Antonio Buero Vallejo The First World War, by Vicente

Blasco Ibáñez Thu 17, 6.30pm Instituto Cervantes, 102 Eaton Square

London, SW1W 9AN Tue 22, 6.30pm Instituto Cervantes, 102 Eaton Square The next lecture of the series is dedicated to Antonio London, SW1W 9AN

Buero Vallejo (1916-2000), one of the greatest Documentary screening and Q&A with scriptwriter, dramatists of twentieth-century Spain, and is given director and producer Enrique Viciano. by Dr Catherine O’Leary, Head of the Department of Spanish at University of St Andrews. 2016 marks the centenary of the publication of “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”, the great Persistent critic of Spanish society, both under novel of the First World War by Vicente Blasco Franco and after his death, Buero Vallejo’s emphasis Ibáñez. Written in Paris between 1915 and 1916, the on universal issues of justice and humanity make his success of the novel was immediate. In 1921 it was theatre strikingly relevant today. Among his plays are adapted into a film, starring Rudolph Valentino and Historia de una escalera (1948), Un soñador para un Alice Terry. The adaptation of Vincente Minelli from pueblo (1958), El concierto de San Ovidio (1962), El 1962 with Glenn Ford, Charles Boyer and Ingrid sueño de la razón (1969), and Caimán (1980). Thulin is recognized as one of the most representative

war melodramas. In collaboration with the Cultural Office of the Spanish Embassy in UK Documentary in English Q&A in Spanish with simultaneous translation into English. In English – Free entry RSVP: http://bit.ly/buerovallejo_ICLondon RSVP: http://bit.ly/screening_ICLondon