The artist illustrates the poster for a new edition, whose tickets go on sale this Thursday
Tickets for the forty-first edition of the Cartagena Jazz Festival (November 2-20) will go on sale this Thursday, as will the 200 tickets for €60 for the eight concerts that will take place at the Nuevo Teatro Circo. Lacking knowledge of the details of the programming, which will be presented this Thursday, Cartagena’s city council released the image of the poster yesterday. An original work by the painter Gonzalo Sicre that reflects «those unique moments we enjoy during concerts, where from the darkness a ray of light reveals the transcendental of jazz. The unique and unrepeatable moment.
Sicre was born in Cádiz, although he has lived in Cartagena for many years. He is considered one of the country’s most important figurative artists. His work can be inscribed in the group of neo-metaphysical painting which counts among its important representatives the Cartagena artist Ángel Mateo Charris, Joel Mestre and Dis Berlin.
The presentation of exterior and interior spaces without human presence is a constant in Sicre’s work, “which is clear evidence of a clear abandonment of stories or anecdotes, in favor of concentrating on the more purely luminous aspects of painting, although in the poster he created for the Cartagena Jazz Festival, there is a presence of the public enjoying a concert,” Cartagena’s city council said in a press release. Sicre’s images are imbued with a sad light and soft melancholy, with calm and ordered compositions, creating an almost mysterious restlessness.
This year the Cartagena Jazz Festival will be held at the Nuevo Teatro Circo, on one of the terraces of the El Batel Auditorium, the Mr. Witt cafeteria and returns to the streets of the historic city center.
The only name confirmed so far is that of Ron Carter, who will perform at the Nuevo Teatro Circo on Friday, November 11.
Source: La Verdad
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