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Bigas Luna: Barbaric Comedies

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Wednesday, 8 June 2016 to Sunday, 12 June 2016
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Friday, 10 June 2016 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Bigas Luna, Necklace of Flies (Collar de Moscas), 2002, video

Vane is pleased to be taking part in an homage to one of Spain’s most fascinating and influential contemporary filmmakers and artists, Josep Joan Bigas Luna (1946-2013), in a collaboration with Durham University, the Tyneside Cinema, and ¡Vamos! Festival.

‘Barbaric Comedies’, curated by Betty Bigas and Santiago Fouz Hernández, showcases some of Bigas Luna’s controversial video artwork, including the famous short Necklace of Flies (2002) and the five-piece ‘Barbaric Comedies’ (2003), which was inspired by the well-known work of Spanish dramatist Ramón del Valle-Inclán (1866-1935).

Additional support for the exhibition at Vane has been provided by BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art.

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The work of Bigas Luna is internationally renowned and his films include the popular comedy/drama Jamón, jamón (1992). The homage to his work is part of a series of international events that started in San Francisco in 2015 and will continue with planned events in Barcelona later this year and in Los Angeles in 2017.

The video installation ‘Barbaric Comedies’ was produced in 2003 to complement Bigas Luna’s extravagant adaptation of the famous trilogy by Spanish playwright Ramón del Valle-Inclán (1866-1936), the Barbaric Comedies. The seven-hour long performance took place in Sagunto, Spain, as the closing act of the Valencia Biennale. It had a budget of 2.4 million Euros and a cast of 90 actors, including trained theatre actors, street performers and extras, as well as animals. The video pieces were meant to introduce the spectator into the world of Valle-Inclán as re-interpreted by Bigas Luna. The two had a lot in common, as suggested by the pop-up ‘Bigas-Valle Museum’ in the corridor that led to the 10,000-square-metre industrial unit where the main performance took place.

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Screenings of four Spanish films by Bigas Luna will be held at Tyneside Cinema in Pilgrim Street, Newcastle. As well as the world-famous film trilogy ‘Iberian Portraits’, including Jamón, jamón, which launched the careers of Oscar-winning actors Penélope Cruz and her husband, Javier Bardem, Tyneside Cinema will also screen Bigas Luna’s final film DiDi Hollywood starring Elsa Pataky and Peter Coyote.

Screenings will be held on Friday 10 June at 8pm (Jamón, jamón); Saturday 11 June at 5pm (Golden Balls) and 8.30pm (The Tit and the Moon); and Sunday 12 June at 3pm (DiDi Hollywood).  All films will be introduced by Dr Santiago Fouz Hernández, Reader in Hispanic Studies, in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, at Durham University.  Films on Friday 10 June and Saturday 11 June will be followed by Q&A sessions with the director’s daughter, art curator Betty Bigas, and Consol Tura, actress and casting director of Bigas Luna’s films.

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Vane was founded in 1997 in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North East of England. Vane opened a permanent gallery space in Newcastle city centre in 2005. In October 2011 Vane launched a brand new gallery space on the first floor of Commercial Union House, 39 Pilgrim Street in the centre of Newcastle. Vane represents the work of a number of artists, both from across the UK and internationally, as well as showing the work of invited artists in collaboration with other galleries. The gallery directors are Paul Stone and Christopher Yeats. Vane is supported by Arts Council England.

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