Michael Horovitz at Art Bermondsey Project Space

CARLOS PUENTE

SHADOWS OF SPAIN

CLOSING EVENT 31st MARCH 7-10pm

BY SPECIAL INVITATION

MICHAEL HOROVITZ & VANESSA VIE

Stretches of Spain

with guests

Carlos Puente and Isabel del Rio

Personal Explorations, from Romanticism to Present Days

For the finissage of Carlos Puente’s first solo exhibition in London, Art Bermondsey Project space has invited one of the last Beat Poets of London, Michael Horovitz to perform British and Spanish poetry together with his lyrical soul-mate, Spanish artist Vanessa Vie.

The evening will include works from:

Romantic Spanish poets – Galician Poetess Rosalia de Castro
The Generation of 1898 -Unamuno’s mature poetry inspired by William Blake-
Asturian poet, essayist, dramatist & philosopher Ramon de Campoamor
Generation of 27 — Federico Garcia Lorca’s Dark Sonnets & Poet in New York
SPANISH CIVIL WAR —W H Auden, George, Ernest Hemingway, resonances from Picasso’s Guernica, the Bloomsberries & the International Brigade
POST CIVIL WAR – Pablo Neruda, Christopher Logue, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Andrei Voznesensky, Geraldine Monk, along with other reverberations of Gongora & Goya

Carlos Puente will also present some of his poetry and guest interventions will be performed by Spanish poet & translator Isabel del Rio. Michael and Vanessa will also perform excerpts from their repertoire including song-poems and extrapolations accompanied with guitar, harmonica and anglo-saxophone variations. Throughout the evening they will interweave the vibrant stretches of diverse eras and (counter)cultural activities between Spain, Britain, Eastern Europe, Germany, North & South America & beyond.