GRAND APPLAUSE
Let's imagine for a moment that Bizet's opera Carmen was a museum piece. Now let's imagine that this exhibition work came to life from the hand of contemporary artists such as Luis Úrculo, Norberto Llopis or Bernhard Willhelm. That's Grand Applause, an exhibition in four acts or an opera that runs through four rooms of an exhibition.
We propose a translation from an exhibition format to a performative one. This work is a curatorial project; a choreography that runs through a virtual architecture of real life scale based on the fiction of Bizet's opera Carmen and puts into dialogue the work of three artists who share the power of suggesting fictions from everyday elements: Norberto Llopis in the role of Carmen, Luis Úrculo in the role of Don José and Bernhard Willhelm as the bullfighter Escamillo. In Grand Applause, we take a step towards the large format, and we go from being the absolute protagonists of our pieces to becoming one more element of an entire ecosystem, in which we dilute the issue of authorship among Merimee, Bizet, The Korgis, Reveriano Soutullo, Juan Vert, Luis Cobos, Héroes del Silencio and Rafael Alberti.
CREATION - Jorge Dutor and Guillem Mont de Palol with works by Norberto Llopis, Luis Úrculo and Bernhard Willhelm.
TECHNICAL COORDINATION AND REGIDENCY - Carmelo Fernández
SOUND - Carlos Parra and Marcelo Lastra
TRAMOYA - Almudena Sancho
CURTAIN MAKING - Paloma Martínez López
GRAPHIC DESIGN - Miguel Marques
PRODUCTION - Jorge Dutor, Guillem Mont de Palol
WITH THE COLLABORATION OF Graner - Factory of Creation, SÂLMON Festival, Festival de la Universidad del Museo de Chopo, Estiu en Obres, Las Naves Espai d’Innovació i Creació.
WITH THE SUPPORT OF Scholarships for Research and Creation in the fields of Visual Arts, New Creative Sectors, Performing Arts, Music and Thought of the Generalitat de Catalunya
PREMIERE AT Mercat de les Flors within the SÂLMON <festival 2016
DURATION 80 minutes
For all audiences
