Bullfights: Czech painter Georg Dokoupil chooses Morante to announce the bullfighting season in Seville | Culture | EUROtoday

This Monday, the Real Maestranza de Caballería unveiled the poster asserting the 2026 bullfighting season in Seville, a piece by the Czech painter Georg Dokoupil that options Morante de la Puebla. At the occasion, held within the Hall of Posters within the bullring, Morante joked about his standing as a mannequin, congratulated the poster artist and wished luck to the brand new businessman of La Maestranza, José María Garzón. “We are all going to enjoy this fair; it is going to be my comeback and I feel very responsible with all the expectations that there are on me,” mentioned the matador.

The gallery proprietor Fernando Francés, commissioned by the Real Maestranza to hold out the fee, has indicated that he had supposed to make “a tribute to bullfighting and to the figure of Morante, who had just announced his retirement.” Francés has revealed that the writer didn’t quit his efforts – he painted a number of work – till he achieved one to his full satisfaction. Dokoupil himself, an artist ascribed to Neo-Expressionism, has alluded to his supply of inspiration. “There is no bullfighter who has a better figure,” he famous to applause.

Dokoupil’s work will serve to stamp all of the ticketing, hand-held applications, triptychs and international posters for the festivities held within the Sevillian bullring throughout the 2026 season. The work, lastly, will add to the in depth assortment of latest artwork that has given its title to the bullring area during which they’re exhibited all year long. Dokoupil’s work will be part of the more and more in depth listing of prestigious companies which have accepted the provide of the Real Maestranza to announce the Sevillian bullfighting season since 1994 on the initiative of the remembered painter and grasp knight Juan Maestre, the decided promoter of this initiative that has given the the Aristocracy one of many best-known artwork collections within the metropolis.

The assortment of posters, which has given its title to the corridor that homes them within the bullring, accommodates signatures equivalent to these of Luis Manuel Fernández, Miquel Barceló, Carmen Laffón, Botero, Salinas, Luis Gordillo, Hernán Cortés, Norman Foster, the Mexican creator Abraham Cruz Villegas or the Austrian Martha Jungwirth, who signed final yr’s poster. The occasion additionally served to announce the journalist Rubén Amón as bullfighting preacher for subsequent Easter Sunday.