Mexico is a country critical to the Instituto Cervantes: Juan Manuel Bonet – RadioFórmula

February 08, 2017

the new director of The Instituto Cervantes, Juan Manuel Bonet, aims to conduct numerous projects with Mexico, a country which he considered to be “central” to the cultural institution and of the teaching of Spanish in the world.

Paris.- The new director of the Instituto Cervantes, Juan Manuel Bonet, aims to conduct numerous projects with Mexico, a country which he considered to be “central” to the cultural institution and of the teaching of Spanish in the world.

“Mexico is a country critical to the Cervantes”, underlined Notimex Juan Manuel Bonet, expert in art and literature, contemporary mexican, and who on Wednesday took the protest officially to the office in Madrid, Spain.

The decision of the protest took place at a ceremony held at the world headquarters of the Institute present in 87 cities in 44 countries on five continents.

Bonet, who substitutes in the charge to the academic language Víctor García de la Concha, told this news agency that “the Cervantes has yet to be more ibero-american” and that you want to work “more with Mexico,” in the cultural part, and even in the academic.

“The UNAM has an office in our headquarters, and with the UNAM, the University of Salamanca and Buenos Aires, we have created the SIELE, evaluation service that is called to a great future,” he emphasized to this agency by the critic of art and literature and former director of the Reina Sofía Museum in Spain.

Now, in office, Bonet, who had an “intimate friendship with Octavio Paz”, wants to promote, among others, that called a “project Larbaud-Kings” on the collection unique in the world of the work of the mexican author Alfonso Reyes, who preserved the library of the French writer Valery Larbaud (1881-1957).

“I Think to develop it to see both Paris and Vichy, where it is preserved in the library of the first, as in Madrid, and in Mexico,” explained Juan Manuel Bonet, who has catalogued the work of Kings in the library Larbaud of the French city of Vichy, center.

On the academic side, the new director general of the Cervantes discusses the possibility that the Institute, which does not have headquarters in Mexico, can impart the teaching of Spanish in the mexican capital.

“Why is it that Cervantes could not teach the Spanish in cities with so much demand in this regard, with as much floating population as foreign as is the City of Mexico?”, said Bonet, who was born in Paris, France, in 1953.

The new director of the cultural institution dependent on the ministry and the Ministry of Culture of Spain is not overlooked by the current context by the passing of Mexico following the change of political administration in the united States, the only country in the Americas next to Brazil, in which the Instituto Cervantes has centres.

“We are concerned, it has already been said by my predecessor, Víctor García de la Concha, which the White House has deleted his website in Spanish, when in that country there are 55 million Spanish-speaking and concerned that tighten both the relationship of the united States with the aztec country,” said Bonet.

“we must also remember that, in the face of our activities in the united States, go hand in hand with Mexico, which has provided us with its network of cultural centers and consulates,” said the new director of the Cervantes Institute, an institution founded a quarter century ago.

Bonet, who in the past five years he directed the center for the Cervantes in Paris, now hopes to travel more to Mexico and Latin America in general since his new position at the head of the institution academic and cultural environment that promotes the language and culture “in English” at the global level.

The intellectual and poet, she has visited Mexico on numerous occasions, he has been a jury member in the Award Tamayo in Oaxaca, and has written a lot about mexican painters, recently even, for the catalogue of the Grand Palais in Paris, on the exhibition of mexican art of the TWENTIETH century that hosted the famous enclave.

Bonet, who in addition to Octavio Paz had a friendship with the great mexican photographers Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Kati Horna, among others, has written numerous texts on the avant-garde in mexico the TWENTIETH century, especially on the “estridentismo”.

he has Also been curator of exhibitions on Spanish civil war exiles in Mexico, as Ramón Gaya or Miguel Prieto, and during his tenure as director of the Cervantes Institute of Paris commemorated the centenary of Octavio Paz, and was a consultant to the Library Octavio Paz of the Embassy of Mexico in France.

During his last period in the French capital, before taking the direction of Cervantes at the global level, launched the “Routes Cervantes Paris” dedicated to Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.

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