Pepe Luis Vázquez, on the closing of the Bullfighting and Culture course: “It is more difficult to lie with the word than with the crutch” | EUROtoday

The Bullfighting Studies Foundation, with the sponsorship of the Royal Maestranza de Caballera of Seville and the collaboration of the Royal Sevillian Academy of Good Letters, has held this week the second version of the Bullfighting and Culture Course, targeted on this event on the evaluation of the 'Visual Culture of Bullfighting' and which has included necessary personalities from the college, tradition and the world of bullfighting as audio system. A gathering with the bullfighter Pepe Luis Vázquez It was the end result this Thursday night time of some high-level cultural conferences.

With the route of the president of the FET, Ftima Halcn, the convention was held between March 5 and seven on the headquarters of the Royal Sevillian Academy of Good Letters with a superb inflow of public. It was the president herself who on the primary day defined that nowadays goal to “highlight the relationship that Bullfighting has with Culture throughout the centuries.s”, to which he added: “in this case we have focused on visual culture, that is, on those manifestations from the point of view of the image that bullfighting has had in painting, in engraving, in photography, in cinema…, in short, in everything that has created a visual image of the world of bullfighting”.

The final day was attended by the Lieutenant of Hermano Mayor of the Royal Cavalry of Seville, Santiago de Lenand the president of the Academy, Pablo Gutirrez-Alvizwhich was answerable for presenting a e book printed by this establishment the place all of the shows from the course held in 2023 are compiled.

The presence of Pepe Luis Vázquez It was one of many highlights of this course. The bullfighter was interviewed by the president of the FETFtima Halcnand by the professor Rogelio Reyes Cano, who raised numerous subjects to which Pepe Luis responded along with his normal naturalness and intelligence, leaving actual pearls equivalent to when he acknowledged that “it is more difficult to lie with the word than to lie with the crutch” to a query in regards to the incompatibility between regularity and artwork. In this sense, he went deeper: “You can have art or not, but to bullfight well you have to be completely dedicated. If you put soul, feeling and naturalness on top of it, that makes the work eternal.”