Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Espert, Rosales and Parcerisas, National Awards for Culture … – euronews

Reuters, 25/03 16:42 CET

 The actress Nuria Espert. EFE / File The actress Nuria Espert. EFE / File

Barcelona, ​​25 Mar ( EFE ) .- The actress Nuria Espert, filmmaker Jaime Rosales and writer and poet Francesc Parcerisas are three of Ten distinguished this year with the National Culture Awards of Catalonia, awarded by the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CoNCA).

It has also awarded the journalist Josep Maria Cadena, the ballerina Guillermina Coll, the Federation of Devils i Dimonis de Catalunya, the Private Foundation Espai Guinovart, Professor Xavier Pla, the group Quico Celio, Noi i Mut Ferreries and artist Amèlia Riera.

The CoNCA gives the most relevant distinction in the Catalan cultural sphere personalities and entities throughout the territory to which recognizes “excellence of his work, the continuity of its work until today and own innovative look provided by each one of them. “

For Nuria Espert, highlight its long and consolidated international career as an actor, theater director and theater entrepreneur and remember who has returned to the Catalan scene this year with the interpretation of “King Lear” by Shakespeare.

Espert, who has traveled to Barcelona from Madrid, where he lives, has acknowledged that when he received the call in which he announced the award was surprised.

Then, reflected and found it natural, because just left the King Lear in the tables Lliure, an experience he described as “quite extraordinary” and has been “like a spiritual retreat in India, the guru was the text. “

He also understood that the prize is as close to a period of” pleasure and suffering for the ‘King Lear’ ‘, a work that keeps “as treasure “and looking forward to reinterpret later this year.

The filmmaker Jaime Rosales, author of films like” Beautiful the more demanding youth “, speaking of the winners, has thanked the prize for people you admire.

It has also considered that art is what causes the consciousness of people awake, something the power “will not, because he prefers that people not smart and conscious, because that thinks it more manipulable. “

In his view, a society without art is” threatened by totalitarianism “and warned that the youth of today” is very manipulable, which It is disturbing, because we think that fascism is somewhat remote, but you can come back. “

The poet Francesc Parcerisas, the generation of the seventies, is distinguished by the relevance of all his work, since over forty years. “We have to thank ‘He said that literature today, let us record of lived experience.”

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