﻿{"id":2741,"date":"2015-10-21T06:33:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T06:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josepmariarossello.com\/lorca-and-dali\/"},"modified":"2015-10-21T06:33:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T06:33:09","slug":"lorca-and-dali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josepmariarossello.com\/en\/lorca-and-dali\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLORCA AND Dal\u00ed\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Project of Lorca-themed Giant Figures<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For now, it remains unclear whether Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca came to Tarragona with Salvador Dal\u00ed. Lorca stated that he came &#8216;without telling anyone,&#8217; and in the interview given to him by journalist Lluis de Salvador, he did not mention coming with Dal\u00ed. Cipriano Rivas Cherif, the theatre director who had already premiered works by Don Ram\u00f3n del Valle Incl\u00e1n and Lorca&#8217;s \u201cYerma,\u201d as well as Lope de Vega&#8217;s \u201cLa Dama boba,\u201d which Lorca had adapted, informed the journalists and public awaiting the poet, who were gathered to pay tribute to him at Casa Marshall in Barcelona, that Lorca would not be attending because he had gone to Tarragona with Salvador Dal\u00ed. However, Lorca does not state in the interview that he was accompanied by anyone. Conversely, Salvador Dal\u00ed, in his last interview with historian Ian Gibson, stated that he came to Tarragona with Lorca in 1935, for Santa Tecla.    <\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2741 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/josepmariarossello.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CIMG0849-scaled.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/josepmariarossello.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CIMG0849-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"The project of Lorca-themed giant figures\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josepmariarossello.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CIMG0849-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/josepmariarossello.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CIMG0849-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/josepmariarossello.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CIMG0849-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 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alt=\"The project of Lorca-themed giant figures\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josepmariarossello.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CIMG0864-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/josepmariarossello.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CIMG0864-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/josepmariarossello.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CIMG0864-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/josepmariarossello.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CIMG0866-scaled.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/josepmariarossello.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CIMG0866-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"The project of Lorca-themed giant figures\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josepmariarossello.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CIMG0866-150x150.jpg 150w, 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sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Joking among friends, with historian and journalist Jordi Rovira, we discussed the idea of creating giant figures to represent the two artists. And since ideas, if not grounded in reality, are of little use, I created prototypes of Lorca&#8217;s and Dal\u00ed&#8217;s heads, so that these works could serve as the basis for the giant figures. They are in black and white because I based them on photographs from that era.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not long ago, replicas of the city&#8217;s giant figures, which I found highly amusing, were paraded through Tarragona during festivities. They possessed a touch of ingenuity that brought them closer to &#8216;Na\u00eff&#8217; works, and, though unrelated, Niki de Saint Phalle&#8217;s delightful \u201cNanas\u201d came to mind. They were the giant figures of the Tarragona Gypsy Association. I inquired who had made them, and I was introduced to the creators, two young members of the association: Miquel Ximenis and Joan Guti\u00e9rrez. I then stated that if the giant figures were ever to be made, I wished for them to be created by these two. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When I had to dismantle my workshop three years ago, Jordi Rovira agreed to become the custodian of the prototypes of the artists&#8217; heads, and they found their resting place at the Royal Archaeological Society of Tarragona, of which he was the President. Last Saturday, as part of the commemorative events for the 80th anniversary of the poet&#8217;s visit\/visits to Tarragona, &#8220;LORCATS TGN 80,&#8221; the noble doors of the Archaeological Society (RSAT) were opened to inaugurate an exhibition dedicated to Jordi Rovira&#8217;s publications, and to two projects that, due to lack of funding, remain shelved: \u201cThe Giant Figures of Lorca and Dal\u00ed,\u201d and the \u201cCommemorative Medal of Augustus&#8217;s Bimillenary.\u201d Despite the Archaeological Society being located on a main floor of Carrer Major, public attendance was constant during the three hours the institution was open to the public; it will be open again for the \u201cLorca Route.\u201d Friends and adversaries alike paraded through the premises, reliving anecdotes and memories surrounding a character as courageous as he was controversial, such as Jordi Rovira.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Project of Lorca-themed Giant Figures For 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