Last Thursday was held in Baeza presentation to the press of the logo and poster of the cultural event and Baeza Antonio Machado, 1912-2012. One Hundred Years of an encounter. The event was attended the Committee appointed by the city of Baeza and Leocadio Marín, mayor of the city.
The year 2012 marks the centenary of the arrival of the poet Antonio Machado in Baeza Seville or, which is the same, one hundred years of his return to Andalusia after his family stay in Madrid, your trip to Paris and his years teaching at the Institute of Soria. Given the importance of the poet's stay was for poetry and English culture, this conventional circumstances should be a celebration of culture and opportunity of knowledge, recognition and celebration of the poet and his tireless work as well stay for Antonio Machado in Baeza resulted in him one of the most prolific and profound periods of his literary activity and thought. To do this, the Sectoral Council for the centennial celebration, appointed by the city of Baeza in plenary on 29 October 2009, has decided to schedule a series of activities to commemorate this event, and have adopted a logo and poster with to promote ownership of it and make themselves known to the public so that these advertising tools will help the citizens of Baeza, in the first place, and the rest of Spain, in addition to countless readers as the poet may have different parts of the world, recognize this celebration and make it their own.
Introduction and brief explanation of the centennial logo
The logo, while the hallmark and promise and sign verbal-visual aesthetic and functional high-level and high profile, wants to be the element chart that identifies the unique institution of the Centenary Meeting of Antonio Machado and Baeza, so clearly includes symbols related to what it represents. In our case:
Antonio Machado "Baeza " the centenary of his meeting
The logo, which the designer is the author of Granada Rafael Simon , get a very elegant synthesis between Machado, Baeza and the centenary of the merger of three symbolic elements: the two zeros, the "M" of Machado and Patio Renaissance arches of the former University of Baeza, the headquarters of the Institute " Holy Trinity "to which our poet came as Professor in November 1912, one of the great symbols architectural Baeza. Furthermore, unlike the current trend of logos "soft" on the basis of spots, lines and striking colors, it brings rigor and sobriety Machado, with just the right touch of color to evoke the stalls Baeza.
And finally, when done the centennial, the "M" arch "alone, without the" 1 " , wants to serve as independent logo of "Machado in Baeza, replacing the dates of the centenary of his stay in Baeza, that is, by" 1912 -1919 " .
Introduction and brief explanation of the first centennial poster
Although the Sectoral Council will promote the creation of different posters with poems of Antonio Machado along of the Centennial celebration, the poster is presented to provoke him to see a fair evocation of time of the meeting that occurs between the poet and the city, since that meeting was, and is in fact consequences of various signs, poetic and not poetry, for both sides found. Therefore, c omo it is the commemoration of a meeting, the designer, Rafael Simon, worked from the idea of \u200b\u200bthe first sighting of Baeza by Machado (so you placed the horizon at eye level), resolved by a double game silhouette. This is an image with a certain degree of abstraction that makes it more durable and sober, sobriety is very characteristic of the figure and the poetry of Antonio Machado. On the other hand, wanted to recognize both silhouettes with some clarity the two key elements of the centenary to be held: first, the poet Antonio Machado, who comes to town at the age of 37 years, and, another, the city of Baeza whose identification is urban forever linked with the silhouettes of their noble buildings and, in particular, with the towers of the cathedral and the Capilla de San Juan Evangelista, so linked it to the learning center where professed Antonio Machado. As for the colors are concerned, wanted the color of the silhouette of Baeza - the color of their Renaissance stalls also present in the logo - out that had the light against dark color which presents the poet, somehow symbolizing the state of spirit that came to town after losing his young wife, death triggered his departure from Soria and his arrival in Baeza.
opening and closing dates of the Centenary and advancement of activities
activities will be developed from 22 February to 1 November 2012, coinciding LXXIII with the anniversary of the death of Antonio Machado and the centenary of his arrival in Baeza.
The opening ceremony will be held this February 22, 2012, the day he was inaugurated the Temporary Exhibition Antonio Machado and Baeza: History, Culture, Arts and Literature , exposure has been appointed Commissioner Jose Luis Chicharro Chamorro, former director of the Provincial Museum of Jaen and member of Giennenses Studies Institute, and professor of Institute where he professed Antonio Machado.
The official closing date will coincide with the centenary exact, that is, with the November 1, 2012 and with the conclusion of the International Congress on Antonio Machado and Andalusia, to be held at the Antonio Machado International University of Andalusia.
These two major activities are accompanied by others that will taking place throughout the centennial year, coinciding with each month of the same. For example, the Sectoral Council has agreed to promote:
- Short Film Contest for Young Directors "Antonio Machado and Baeza"
- No voice is mine. Youth Poetry Gathering
- Days Homenaje a Antonio Machado de Baeza Writers and Poets
- Days Tribute to the poet Antonio Machado awarded the International Prize for Poetry Antonio Machado in Baeza.
- Promotion Activities related to the Centennial Center Education and Culture of Andalusia
- recitals, lectures, panel discussions, musical and theatrical performances, etc.. Baeza both in other parts of Andalusia.
- Ediciones del Centenario.
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