CentroCentro, in collaboration with Museo ABC, presents "En la Pradera de San Isidro," a captivating exhibition exploring Madrid's iconic San Isidro celebration. This unique display features drawings and illustrations from the esteemed Colección ABC, many shown for the first time. Visitors can journey through a century of festive art, highlighting traditional elements like mantones, rosquillas, and verbena. These artworks document the city's vibrant life and artistic heritage.
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This exhibition at CentroCentro showcases a selection of drawings and illustrations from the Colección ABC, celebrating the San Isidro festival in Madrid. It features works by numerous artists that capture the spirit of the Pradera, including traditional elements like mantones, rosquillas, and verbena.
CentroCentro, as part of the City Council's cultural offerings, presents "En la Pradera de San Isidro. Mantones, Rosquillas y Verbena," an exhibition that delves into the essence of Madrid's San Isidro celebration through a curated selection of artworks from the Colección ABC. For over a century, the magazine _Blanco y Negro_ and the newspaper _ABC_ have documented the city's life, its people, its festivities, and particularly its celebrations, with San Isidro being a central event. This exhibition, a collaboration between the Ayuntamiento de Madrid and Museo ABC, highlights drawings and illustrations, many of which are exhibited for the first time, emphasizing the artistic heritage preserved within the city's collections and archives. The exhibition offers a festive journey back to the Pradera of yesteryear, guided by the artistic visions of celebrated illustrators such as Narciso Méndez Bringa, known for his detailed and elegant drawings; Ángel Díaz Huertas, a master of popular, colorful, and expressive art; Manuel Escudero, Ramón Estalella, Carlos Masberguer, Enrique Climent, and José Francisco Aguirre, who depicted castizo scenes with mantones and fans in an "art deco" and avant-garde style; Joaquín Xaudaró, with his "bird's-eye view" of the Pradera; Ramón Manchón, Inocencio Medina Vera, José Robledano, Enrique Herreros, Francisco López Rubio, Mecachis, and Melitón González, who portrayed San Isidro with wit and humor; and even Adolfo Lozano Sidro, Valls, Fernando Alberti Barceló, Enrique Estevan, Tomás Muñoz Lucena, leading up to Miguel Gallardo and Juanito Mediavilla, who celebrated the Saint with shoulder pads, quiffs, and rock and roll. The iconic elements of the Pradera—the Saint, rosquillas (sweet doughnuts), botijos (water jugs), holy water, verbena (fair), mantón (shawl), and fan—have been rendered by artists, documenting a century-old celebration that intertwines the religious and the secular, the refined and the popular, in a city that unites everyone to the sound of the organ grinder.
Entry to the exhibition is free. Visitors can also enjoy the exhibition during the general opening hours of CentroCentro.
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