The cultural and recreational program of Hispanidad 2023, which is celebrated between October 6 and 15, includes among its proposals an extensive musical lineup as well as a wide variety of cultural offers in museums and leading spaces in both the capital and the Community of Madrid.
Among the first, concerts by Carlos Vives, RaiNao, Cupido, Love of Lesbian, Tequila and Delaporte stand out on the various stages set up in the city. Meanwhile, those who want to enjoy this celebration “in a quiet way” will find a wide variety of exhibitions on offer at museums, as highlighted by the organization in a statement.
In the case of spaces such as the Royal Collections Gallery, the Prado National Museum, the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum and the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, they will have free entry on October 12.
Thus, Sala Alcalá 31 presents ‘Tell me who you are’, an exhibition that brings together an extensive selection of works by Sevillian Luis Gordillo from the last twenty years and analyzes in depth the most notable lines of research from this last period.
Two decades in which Gordillo has placed painting at the center, with special importance to the constant feedback that exists between it and photography, collage and drawing, a very characteristic territory of the artist in which the image in process defines configurations. internal ones that build the work.
Also noteworthy is the exhibition proposal by the Alicante photographer Cristina de Middel in the Canal de Isabel II Room with ‘Letters to the Director’, an exhibition that presents the perspective of the photographer Cristina de Middel on the fundamental themes of the traditional press (war, violence and migration) through previous and more recent projects that are shown widely for the first time.
Starting from the only response space that existed in the traditional press, the letters to the editor (where, whoever read a newspaper could write to question, ask or complain about something), Cristina de Middel seeks to counteract the unidirectional discourses of the visual and the informative.
Music will also reach halls and museums with concerts such as that of Aída Gimeno and Carlos Sanchís on October 12 at the Museum of America, with a repertoire that aims to demonstrate the cultural and historical connection between America and Spain, or the performance of the guitarist Colombian Ariel Acevedo on Saturday, October 14 at Caixa Forum.
The presence of Latin America will also be made tangible in the exhibitions that add to the plastic offering of the program, some of which are galleries from Madrid such as Álvaro Alcázar, La Caja Negra, BAT, Marlborough gallery, The Ryder, Fernando Pradilla, Travesía Cuatro, Formato Comodo, Benveniste Contemporary, Nieves Fernández, Espacio Valverde, Xavier Fiol and Freijo Gallery.
These exhibitions, by artists such as Ariel Cabrera, Jonathan Fernández, Gustavo Díaz, Felipe Arturo or Gina Arizpe, can be visited until November in some cases.
For its part, the Pedro de Lorenzo Cultural Center in Soto del Real, the Margarita Nelken Cultural Center in Coslada or the Asunción Balaguer House of Culture in Alpedrete, are some of the spaces that will also host exhibitions framed in this celebration outside the city.
Like the exhibition ‘On stage’, an extensive catalog of the work of twenty Ibero-American photographers with a solid professional career that can be seen at the Alfonso X el Sabio Culture House in Guadarrama.
The objective of this heterogeneous exhibition is to publicize the value that photography made by women has achieved today, so that the cultural panorama can incorporate “this fundamental element to understand the contemporary art scene.”
In its proposal, Hispanidad 2023 includes 165 activities, mostly free of charge, such as concerts, plays, exhibitions, literary events, parades and gastronomic days that will be distributed in more than fifty spaces, streets and stages in the Community of Madrid and with the participation, for the first time, of the city of Seville. All by more than 700 artists from seventeen nationalities as well as Spanish companies.
