Projection of the documentary 'No escribiré arte con mayúscula' (I won’t write art with capitals) (2015) and subsequent talk with the director, Luis Deltell

Isidoro Valcárcel Medina (Murcia, 1937) is one of the pioneers of conceptual art in Spain and therefore, continuing the line of discovering and exploring fundamental tendencies in the history of art linked to the Es Baluard museum, we present this documentary on the artists for the first time in the Balearic Islands.
 
Valcárcel has always worked from the margin, in the area of the performative, poetry and experimental manifestations. Subversive and radical, he was recently awarded the Premio Velázquez de las Artes Plásticas 2015 (Velázquez Plastic Arts Prize 2015).
 
On 15th January, we will be screening the documentary about this figure, entitled No escribiré arte con mayúscula (“I won’t write art with capitals”) (2015), directed by Luis Deltell and Miguel Alvárez. Afterwards, Deltell will share details of the development of the project and his relationship with the artist with the public.
 
Synopsis

Oblivious both to the fashions of each era and the pressure of the art market and the institutions, Valcárcel Medina’s path goes through a crucial period in Spain’s recent history, in a constantly critical manner, helping us to understand the period by unmasking some of its contradictions and absurdities.
 
This documentary reconstructs part of the work – which merges with the life – of Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, through testimonies of people close to the artist and basically using words (or rather, the ideas that can be defined and transported by them).
 
Participants: Maite Angulo, Rocío Areán, Tono Areán, Miguel Cereceda, José Manuel Costa, Norberto Dotor, Carmen Gutiérrez, Pilar Huete, José Iges, Trinidad Irisarri, Jordi Massó, Fernando Millán, David Pérez, Yolanda Pérez Herreras, Esteban Pujals, Alfonso Puyal, Julia Ramírez, María Roeseler, Domingo Sánchez Blanco, José Antonio Sarmiento, Camino Valcárcel, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Jaime Vallaure and Pelayo Varela.
 
Luis Deltell is a film director who has been awarded 30 international prizes from 2001 to 2015. He is the director of the documentaries País soñado (“Dreaming country” (2008), En la ciudad perdida (“In the lost city” (2009) and No escribiré arte con mayúscula (“I won’t write art with capitals”) (2015), co-directed with Miguel Alvárez. He is a tenured PhD professor at UCM. His field of research is the history of the image and the analysis of the new information science technologies. He belongs to the Complutense Spanish film research group.