Photo: czechmarionettes.com
Two puppets of Don Quixote and Sancho, part of the collection of the Fundación Ramón Álvarez Vineyard, departed from the cultural center of El Coto de Gijón to Singapore. Parts originating in Prague, part of an exhibition of figures and puppets from around the world organized by the Embassy of Spain in Singapore and which has a special interest in the work of Cervantes. The two puppets are part of the valuable and extensive collection material Ramon Alvarez that the employer gave the Foundation Viña Municipal de Cultura de Gijón.
The Embassy of Spain in Singapore contacted Paco April, Fundación Municipal de Cultura de Gijón and contributor to The New Spain, asking for the sample material Cervantes. April Paco thought at once of two puppets from the collection of Ramon Alvarez Vineyard.
The puppets of Don Quixote and Sancho were requested through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The two pieces are originally from Prague, where they were recently acquired by Carmen, the daughter of Viña Ramon Alvarez, a gift for his father. These are two wooden puppets two feet tall and "very lively," as Alvarez's Vineyard.
The two pieces were not part of the iconography Cervantes shows that for the fourth centenary of the great work of Miguel de Cervantes was held last year with funds from the collection of the Fundación Ramón Álvarez Vineyard. "They were later incorporated," explains the owner.
Part of the Foundation funds have already been shown Viña Alvarez in Merida and then exposed in French universities of Toulouse and Cane. The exhibition is composed, as well as parts of Alvarez Vineyard, more than sixty illustrative panels made by Professor Jesús Menéndez Peláez, director of the Foundation Alvarez Vineyard.
The Embassy of Spain in Singapore charged the schoolchildren of the Asian country to do an introduction to Don Quixote to explain how they saw the works of Cervantes. With this material was made an exhibit.
Now the embassy has prepared a new sample in which figures and puppets will be exhibited around the world with particular attention to the figure of Don Quixote. In this exhibition which will be represented Gijon.
Source: The New Spain
Posted on Tuesday April 25, 2006
