Lecture by David Maroto at the Instituto Cervantes

The Netherlands-based Spanish visual artist David Maroto will give a lecture on Thursday 18 June at the Instituto Cervantes in Utrecht. The event is organised in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Het Aktiverend Volksteater’, which runs from 5 June to 6 July at the StadsGalerij in Breda. The lecture begins at 7.00 pm, during which David Maroto will talk more about his artistic practice and his research into the play ‘Franco de tweede’(Franco the second).

The exhibition is the result of a study that weaves together the shared history of Spain and the Netherlands through various events from the last century: the death of the dictator Franco in 1975, the staging of the play ‘Franco the Second’ by the Breda-based group Aktiverend Volksteater in 1976, and the execution of the artist’s grandfather, a farmer with no political affiliation, during the Spanish Civil War.

This lecture is in Spanish and organised by Witte Rook in collaboration with its partner, the Instituto Cervantes in Utrecht, as part of an initiative to explore the shared history of Spain and the Netherlands and to place it in a contemporary perspective.

Het Aktiverend Volksteater — The Spanish artist David Maroto explores the relationship between his family history and the Spanish Civil War by contrasting it with the play ‘Franco de tweede’explores the relationship between his family history and the Spanish Civil War by contrasting it with the play ‘aktiverend volksteater’.