The cultural agenda for this week in Madrid brings a new edition of PhotoEspaña and the performance of the Galician artist Xoel López at the Arde Madrid summer festival organized at Ifema. Open-air cinema also returns in Matadero and Woody Allen's play 'Dreams of a Seducer takes the stage at the Teatro Lara.

PhotoEspaña

The 2020 edition of PhotoEspaña is one of the great protagonists of the cultural de-escalation this summer. This is demonstrated by exhibitions such as El Santo Christo Ibérico , by Koldo Chamorro, which until September 20 lands at the Lázaro Galdiano Museum .

This is the most ambitious monographic project by the Navarrese photographer, which began in 1974 with the aim of analyzing the profound contradictions of our society through Christian liturgies and demonstrations throughout the Spanish geography. With the Catholic Jubilee of the year 2000, Chamorro ended that stage of his work, in which he collected in contrasting black and white the tension between the traditions of the past and the temptations of modernity.

Theater

In 1972 Woody Allen had not yet achieved the status of a great screenwriter and film director. His most popular hitherto hitherto had been no movie, but Play It Again, Sam , a play with over 400 performances on Broadway featuring Alan Felix, born loser and movie buff in equal measure, so clumsy like Peter Sellers, unable to seduce any woman ... until he is aided by an imaginary Humphrey Bogart.

That year, Allen himself took it upon himself to adapt the script to film, and thus emerged what we know here as Dreams of a Seducer (directed by Herbert Ross), a compendium of the comic skills of the New York genius and his ability to interweave autobiographical details. and fictional characters. Starting on Friday the 17th, the piece will come to life at the Lara Theater with Ramón Paso, in charge of the version and direction, and a cast led by César Camino and Ana Azorín .

Ticket prices: between 12.60 and 14 euros .

Xoel López

"I was the son of all mothers, and I was the mark of every path / I was a kite of all skies and of all lost dreams", sings Xoel López in Cometa , one of the best songs in Sueños y pan (2017), last album to date.

Those verses somehow summarize the long career of a musician who started billing British pop-rock in English, then moved on to folk-pop in Spanish and Galician, still under the alias of Deluxe , and on his last three solo albums he has progressively embraced the Latin sounds after several trips and stays in the American continent.

His is one of the essential dates of Abre Madrid , the summer festival of Ifema , which on Thursday the 16th receives this essential figure on the Spanish music scene on its main stage. In addition, López is already immersed in the preparation of what will be his next album, which will be published in the fall, with three advance songs such as three soles that will have their place in the repertoire: Tigre de Bengala, Joana and Alma de Oro.

Ticket price: 25-50 euros .

Bizarre Love Triangle

The unclassifiable Galician band Triángulo de Amor Bizarro will be in charge of opening the Crew Nation Presents program on Thursday the 16th , a series of concerts in La Riviera that was born with the aim of raising funds for technicians and tour staff of the musicians .

Ticket price: 17.50 euros .

Cinema in Matadero

From Thursday to Sunday until August 16, Cineteca offers a festive program to enjoy summer nights in the open air, which includes comedies, fantastic and genre movies, such as the Korean gangster, the police and the devil. .

Free entry (upon reservation).

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