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Archives October 2009
The singer from Jerez will go over his greatest hits at Teatro de la Zarzuela at 26th October 2009.He is one of the great names in flamenco. A true native of Jerez despite moving to Madrid at a young age, he has been one of the great flamenco singers for some time. In fact, this decade he has become one of the best-selling flamenco singers.
José Mercé is bringing his magic to Teatro de la Zarzuela. The award-winning flamenco singer is introducing the songs from his new album, 'Ruido'. Songs like 'Contigo, Fe' and 'Que Venga Ella', among others, are sentimental ballads with a decidedly flamenco feel and carefully chosen verses. This time there will be no controversy.
The relationship between sexual desire and death instinct through visual arts.The exhibition takes us on a journey through the history of eroticism in Western art: from the Baroque period, with work by Rubens and Bernini (17th century), to the Surrealist movement (20th century), although it does in fact mainly focus on 19th-century artists.
Georges Bataille, one of the most controversial French intellectuals of the early 20th century, gave the title Tears of Eros to a strange and evocative essay on aesthetics which looks at beauty, desire and pain. Although the actual book was only published in 1961, the relationship between eroticism and death has been a obsession for philosophers, psychologists and artists since the Romantic period. Following in their footsteps, in the way Surrealists also did, Bataille produced a vast oeuvre on all sorts of paraphilias which featured surprising moments of lucidity.
