The Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Andalusian Centre of Contemporary Art) exhibits, until the 13th of November, the collective exhibition ‘La Chanson’ in the frame of the aesthetic which explores ‘The Song as a Transforming Social Source’. With this proposal, the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo ventures into the changes that emerged from music during the 20th century and especially with the surge of the 50s and 60s French movement, which was labelled ‘La Chanson’.

The exhibition is organized with visual and sound facilities which follow the metaphoric line which inspired the French movement which began with Edith Piaf and carried on with Boris Vian, Serge Gainsbourg, Jacques Brel, Juliette Gréco, Léo Ferré and Georges Brassens among others.

The outlook of music as a part of a culture which manifests itself in everyday behaviours, such as fashion, design and everyday life activities, is an interesting way to observe the 20th century and its social and political transformations using art as its form of expression.

Participating in this singular exhibition which looks to venture in the influence of music on a political and personal level through art, are the works of John Baldessari, Douglas Gordon, Johanna Billing, Jérôme Bel, Marta de Gonzalo and Publio Pérez Prieto, Susan Philipsz, Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa, Mika Taanila and Paul Rooney among others.

John Baldessari is an American conceptual artist who works on the narrative potential of the images with associative power which bring language in the space of the work. From his beginnings, Baldessari explores the relation that the spectators have with his work, how they look at it and the way in which they make associations and comparisons. In 1970, causing perplexity to critics and spectators, he burned all of his works as part of his work ‘The project of Cremation’ which explored the natural cycle of life, declaring the death of painting. Today he’s considered as one of the most interesting conceptual artists of the 20th century.

Johanna Billing is a Swedish conceptual artist who works preferentially with video. Her work takes time as a factor in learning, in the political sense in which time plays a key role in political processes as a conceptual focus of her work.

Jérôme Bel is a French choreographer and dancer who has carried out interesting dance performance works. Due to his interpretative quality and innovative aesthetics, quite a few of them have been brought to films which have been screened at Sao Paulo’s Biennial, Porto Alegre, at the Georges Pompidou, at the Tate Modern in London and in many other galleries and museums.

Douglas Gordon was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and works in video where he ventures into memory, making a game with sequential image repetitions, deconstructing the time sequences, creating emotional responses in the spectator.

For more information: http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/cultura/caac/programa/chan11/frame.htm

Nancy Guzman

For those who think that music is an agent for social change, this is a great exhibition that you can’t miss if you’re in apartments in Seville

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On the final stretch of Sol Street in Seville, in an enclosed corner of the old town, there’s a unique 15th century building called the house of the Moor King (casa del Rey Moro). It’s one of the oldest domestic buildings in the city and a true architectonic vestige of gothic-mudejar style.

The House of the Moor King is framed by a large garden between the streets of Enladrillada, Sol and Marteles, a space of 5000 sq metres, where a spinning wheel of the hispanic-muslim times used to stand out, which was the place for reaching figs, blackberries, medlars, lemons and oranges from the trees that have been growing in the garden in times of need.

This whole ensemble, from the 22nd of May 2001, has been declared ‘Bien de Interés Cultural’ (B.I.C.) which means heritage of cultural interest. Even though, the PGOU (Urban order general plan) of 2006, inherits de general plan of 1987, that proposed the construction of houses at the site, despite the special protection that the B.I.C. gave to it.

But on February 15th 2004, this fantastic neighbour phenomenon took place which has been flourishing in all the cities: the occupation of empty, forgotten and degraded spaces by the Councils, to make them into social interaction places that, self-managed by the neighbours become reactivation gardens and revitalize the local economy.

At this point the platform ‘La Noria’ of Amigos de la Huerta del Rey Moro (Friends of the Garden of the Moor King) was born. Bringing proposals and activities for the life of the community, such as environmental activities, popular meals, summer cinemas, children’s play days, musical shows, plays, painting workshops, etc. Organized through commissions, the Friends of the GMK maintain relations with the Council, they have participation networks in Fighting Neighbourhoods, Platform of Urban Gardens of Seville, and with different organizations and entities of social economy.

For example, the ‘Asociación Huertos’ (Gardens Association), focuses its work on, as a nonprofit, environmental education through urban gardens. Urban agriculture looks to raise awareness and capacitate the possibility of supplying for itself and being self-sufficient through the learning of the cultivation of food in an ecological way.

Today, Asociación Huertos has an agreement with the Council of Sevilla for the programme of School Gardens. But even so, the Platform carries on its struggle to highlight to the Urban Management of the Council the modification of PGOU: to achieve that the Garden of the Moor King carries on being a green area, a place of co-existance and a public and leisure place where people can go and enjoy.

For more information visit the webpage of the Garden of the Moor King: http://www.huertodelreymoro.es/

Cinta Blanch

If you want apartments in Seville come by the Garden of the Moor King and from its 200 year old fig tree, balance yourself on its small swing and contemplate the wonderful city’s old town.

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The world’s most famous circus is touring Spain; it is the famous Canadian circus, Cirque du Soleil that this time comes to Seville with Corteo.

Cirque du Soleil has become one of the most acclaimed shows around the world. The unique combination of theater arts and street performances in a circus environment, have conquered the lovers of performing in all corners of the planet.

Staged for the first time in Montreal in 2005, Corteo has been seen by millions of people worldwide. Corteo, which means in Italian Cortege, displays almost in a wild way the contrast between big and small, comedy and tragedy and the magic of perfection against the charm of imperfection. At the same time, the show masterly represents the wisdom, goodness, strength and fragility of the clown, accompanied by the rhythm of energetic music played live to exaggerate the emotions of the play into a world where fantasy and reality are the same thing.

Guardian Angels watch over the silence of death, while a real carnival erupts to commemorate, the sweet clown’s imaginary death, only to show us the human part that still resides in the recesses part of our bodies, the one that viciously mocks our realities.

In this world of farcical, there are acrobats hanging from chandeliers, “kids” jumping in trampolines dressed as beds, tightrope, juggling, human puppets, acrobatics on ladders and swings, while the silliness of the clowns awake the joy of public.

From the 7^th of September to the 16^th of October “Corteo” will be presented at carpa blanca, Charco de la Pava in Seville. You can find the complete schedule of the show: http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/es-es/shows/corteo/default.aspx on this website, you can buy tickets ranging from 35 to 174 euros.

Hans

So, let the joy of a clown’s imaginary death get a space in your agenda when you rent apartments in Seville

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