Uruguay and Argentina have a traditional cultural bridge. Below is a list of cultural activities sponsored and promoted by the Embassy of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay in Argentina during the month of June 2019.
Sundays in June at 18 p.m. from 02/06 to 30/06. “Distinctive features: None” a work that goes through the work of the Uruguayan poet Circe Maia at Espacio Teatral La Gloria.
Sponsored by the Embassy of Uruguay in Argentina, every Sunday in June at 18 p.m. the play “Señas particulares: ninguna” is presented at the Espacio Teatral La Gloria (Yatay 890 – CABA). The show is part of the Ciclo de Unipersonales Perspectivas 6 event.
With dramaturgy by Rodrigo Marcó Del Pont and acting by Paz Sapriza, “Señas particulares: ninguna” is an invitation to a peculiar journey through the universes of two women who search and investigate, who ask and question, who invite us to share what we have in common and also what is most precious in each of us, what makes us beings who live in community and at the same time creatures with a unique and unrepeatable history. Through the work of the Uruguayan poet Circe Maia and the “personal mythology” of the Uruguayan actress residing in Argentina, Paz Sapriza, two worlds are assembled in a fabric that redefines them by putting them in relation: two artists from different generations who are nevertheless united by similar life experiences and also a way of seeing the world.
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Dramaturgy: Rodrigo Marcó Del Pont, Peace Sapriza – Interpretation: Peace Sapriza - Locker: Daniel Deybe - Sound Editing: Silvina Pucheta - Sound operation: Matthew Lopez Sapriza - Photograph.:Mariana Sapriza Moran.
General admission $ 250
09/06 at 20 pm – Edú “Pitufo” Lombardo at the CCK Dome: One of the great figures of the Uruguayan carnival, live and with free admission
Under the auspices of the Embassy of Uruguay in Argentina, Uruguayan singer Edú “Pitufo” Lombardo will offer a concert accompanied by percussionist Bruno Ferrúa and special guests. He will perform classic murga-songs and songs from his latest album Músicos Ambulantes, released in 2018 with Rubén Rada, Emiliano Brancciari (No te va gustar) and Jorge Drexler.
Free admission until the room is full
Tickets are free and can be collected in person from Tuesday 4 June, from 12 to 19 pm, at CCK Sarmiento 151, until the venue is full (up to two tickets per person). They can also be reserved through the CCK website. Reservations must be collected from Tuesday itself, on the days and times of the box office, and up to two hours before the show.
About Edú “Pitufo” Lombardo
Born in Montevideo in 1966, Edú “Smurf” Lombardo He has an extensive career in Uruguayan song: the percussionist and singer was part of the murgas Falta y Resto, La Gran Muñeca, Contrafarsa and Asaltantes con Patente, he was part of the group Los que Iban Cantando, and the bands of Jaime Roos, Rubén Olivera, Mauricio Ubal, Jorge Galemire and Jorge Drexler. In 2002 he starred alongside “Pinocho” Routin in the award-winning play Murga Mother.
In 2007 he opened a new stage when he launched himself as a soloist. He released the albums Rock and roll, Enlightened and Brave y Musicians and Street Vendors, won five Graffiti Awards (the most notable in the Uruguayan music scene) and his song “Descolgando el cielo”, a tribute to the sky blue team, became an emblem of Uruguayan football.
In 2013, he accompanied Jorge Drexler to the carnival in Cadiz (Spain), where Edú was the arranger and stage director of the concert along with the drum line of Fernando “Lobo” Nuñez. In 2016, he recorded the album with Fernando Cabrera Cabrera sings Mateo and Darnauchans and accompanied him in different performances throughout the year. In 2017, after ten years of absence from the carnival, Edú returned as director and arranger of the Murga Don Timoteo, which won the first prize in the official contest. He was also distinguished as “Golden Figure of the Carnival” for his work.
27/06 at 20 p.m. – Uruguayan Symphony Orchestra with Norma Aleandro in the CCK Symphony Hall, with free admission.
Under the auspices of the Embassy of Uruguay in Argentina, the Ossodre / National Symphony Orchestra of Uruguay together with actress Norma Aleandro will perform at the Symphony Hall of the Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK) next Thursday, June 27 at 20 p.m.
For the second consecutive year, under the direction of its musical and artistic director Diego Naser, More than 80 musicians will come to Buenos Aires to perform this show. Aleandro will play some of the most emblematic female characters created by William Shakespeare and which have served as inspiration for many operas, such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, among others. She will be accompanied by the Orchestra performing works by great composers, such as Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Bizet, Dvorak, Brahms, Ravel, Mendelssohn, Verdi and Elgar, among others. Totally multifaceted, throughout her career, Aleandro has managed to transfer her talent and feeling to the most diverse characters.
Program
Step 1 —: Norma Aleandro and the Ossodre – Fragments of Shakespeare's works (selected by Patricio Orozco) with Works by Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Bizet, Dvorak, Brahms, Ravel, Mendelssohn, Verdi and Elgar (Musical selection by Diego Naser)
Step 2 —: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
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Sodre Symphony Orchestra / Uruguay – Norma Aleandro, guest artist – Patricio Orozco, stage director – Diego Naser, musical director
Free admission until the room is full
Tickets are free and can be picked up in person at CCK Sarmiento 151, while the venue is full (up to two tickets per person). They can also be reserved through the CCK website. Reservations must be collected on the days and times of the box office, and up to two hours before the show. Link: www.cck.gob.ar
28/06 to 02/07 – MICA 2019: Uruguay Country Focus on the 5th edition of the Argentine Creative Industries Market
Uruguay will be the focus country for the 2019 Argentine Creative Industries Market / MICA 2019, organized by the National Secretariat of Culture, which will take place in Buenos Aires from June 28 to July 2. Through the Uruguayan Creative and Cultural Industries Market (MICUY), the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay (MEC) made a selection of Uruguayan suppliers and applicants for proposals and professionals in the sector who will travel to Buenos Aires to participate in MICA 2019 in the following categories: Editorial, Design, Music, Audiovisual, Animation and Video Games; Performing Arts and Visual Arts. In turn, during MICA 2019, Uruguayan musical, theatrical and visual artists will make special presentations.
During these dates, the International Festival of Performing Arts of Uruguay (FIDAE) will be presented, which will take place between August 14 and 25, 2019. And the launch of the second edition of the Market of Creative and Cultural Industries of Uruguay – MICUY 2020 will take place, which will take place between March 18 and 21 of next year.
From 29/06 – Opening of the Exhibition “Figari: Myth and Tradition” at the National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA).
Organized by the Embassy of Uruguay in Argentina, the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay and the National Museum of Fine Arts of Argentina “Figari: myth and creation” is an exhibition that brings together thirty little-known paintings by the Uruguayan artist Pedro Figari (Montevideo, 1861 – 1938) curated by Pablo Thiago Rocca, current director of the Figari Museum in Uruguay. The opening of the exhibition is on Saturday, June 29 at 10 am at the National Museum of Fine Arts (Av. del Libertador 1473, CABA).
“Figari: myth and creation” – Text: Pablo Thiago Rocca – Director of the Figari Museum
“Figari: myth and creation” is an exhibition that brings together thirty paintings by the Uruguayan artist Pedro Figari (Montevideo, 1861 – 1938), who inaugurated his first exhibition in Buenos Aires at the age of sixty. Figari’s pictorial programme then focused on the evocation of what he called “the legend of the Río de la Plata”: a painting that is both memorable and fantastic, recreating in colonial times the courtyards and soirees of the patrician classes, the Creole dances of the gauchos and the chinas, the “pure grape” candombes of the black slaves and freedmen. In this review of the passage to modernity, his favourite characters are the anonymous protagonists of a minimal and everyday feat, figures often ignored in history textbooks. The Uruguayan artist's talent as a mythographer was not, however, limited to this project, which was in itself quite ambitious and for which he became famous first in Argentina and then in France and the entire world. Restless, exuberant, unexpected, Figari created with his brushes a series of motifs that helped him reflect, with humor, precision and depth, on the multiple facets of the human condition. In this way, he conceived pictorial series that range from the primary life of the caveman to stately landscapes of Venice, passing through bullfights, crimes of passion, religious processions and bowls players, among others. "Figari: myth and creation" explores, along with the emblematic paintings of his production, others less known to the general public but equally filled with the imagination of the great fabulist that was Don Pedro Figari.
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“Vigilance” by Pedro Figari from the Exhibition “Figari: Myth and Creation” (Oil on cardboard – 70×50 – 1922) – Figari Museum / Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay (MEC Uruguay)
Continues until 30/06 – Picasso in Uruguay exhibition at the National Museum of Visual Arts in Montevideo.
In 2019, Uruguay will host for the first time an exhibition of the modern art genius, Pablo Picasso, his life, work and a passage about his relationship with the Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres García. “Picasso Mundo” is the program that emerged from the Picasso Museum in Paris with the aim of transporting and publicizing different works by the Spanish painter and sculptor, Pablo Picasso. Uruguay is among the seven destinations selected to carry out the proposal. “Picasso in Uruguay” will be of great attraction for the entire region, remaining from March 29 to June 30, date on which the works will return directly to France and Barcelona.
The 42 works by Pablo Picasso to be exhibited in Montevideo belong mostly to the collection of the Musée National Picasso-Paris and the rest to the Museu Picasso Barcelona. The exhibition will be displayed at the Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales (MNAV), located in the Parque Rodó neighborhood. The curatorship will be in charge of Emmanuel Guigon, director of the Museu Picasso in Barcelona; and its arrival is the result of an agreement between the Ministry of Education and Culture, the MNAV, the French Embassy in Uruguay, with the support of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Tourism.
The exhibition, which will open at the MNAV on March 29, will feature paintings, sculptures and objects for the first time. Among the documents to be exhibited, some letters addressed to Torres García will be on display.
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