Presentation of Poster Spring Festival Sevilla 2016

Last 8 February was presented in the city of Seville poster for the Spring Festival in Seville 2016, work of painter and sculptor Ricardo Suarez, artist who has extensive experience as a poster artist.

As he explained by the author, It summarizes the work "as a caligrama" a series of citations from texts by authors such as Fernando Villalón, Luis Cernuda, Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Rafael Montesinos, Federico Garcia Lorca, Joaquin Romero and Antonio Rodriguez Murube Mailbox. All they defined, as detailed Suarez, "A contemporary altarpiece where chosen and synthetic iconographic program, that symbolizes and represents the city, builds the image that announces the Spring Festival this year ".

Inter alia, The poster includes a group of Nazarenes of the Brotherhood of San Gonzalo the author defines as "a white river capirotes"; the cover of the April Fair that Suarez himself designed in 2006 as a symbol of the ephemeral; a bulb off and a skull reminiscent the fragility of our passage through life and with which the painter wants "to retrieve and update the speech Valdes Leal left embodied in separate boxes 'The Last Things', in the Santa Caridad "; They are also represented San Leandro and San Isidoro, symbolizing the Christian origin of the city before the Muslim invasion, along with the skein; body bells of the Giralda, some moles They are representing the importance of women in the Spring Festival and box as a sign of the ephemeral are other items that appear on the poster.

The Simpecado of the Brotherhood of Our Lady of Rocio in Seville, as a tribute to the five brotherhoods pilgrimage to the pilgrimage onubense, a toro and burladero as a tribute to the national holiday, a fragment of a roof lanterns and the Virgen de la Esperanza Macarena They add to this tableau.

The poster also appears a discreet homage to the Primitive Brotherhood of Nazarenes in Seville with Five Crosses of Jerusalem, to the Triana bridge, and the Santa Caridad as devotion to Venerable Miguel Manara. By last, the signing of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra recalls held this year 400 anniversary of his death.

Source: City of Seville