Exhibition
Puppets. 30 years of EtcéteraPremio Nacional de Teatro para la infancia y la juventud 2014 Ξ Premio Prestigio Turístico Nacional
Puppets. 30 years of Etcétera essentially covers thirty years of artistic and technical work of our company. You can see puppets and stage sets of our most important shows, stage technology halfway between theater, visual arts and music. Many of these works have been to major venues like the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium, and the Teatro Nacional Sucre in Quito, Ecuador.
To contextualize the origins of Etcétera, we present also figures from different traditions of Africa, Asia and Europe, from the collection of the company; and a sample of the puppeteer work of the artist Hermenegildo Lanz, among which are the legendary puppet of that representation, in friendly creative complicity, made by Manuel de Falla, Federico García Lorca and H. Lanz in Granada in 1923.
Contents of the exhibition
- Puppets and stage sets of the most important Etcétera shows between 1981 and 2011
- Traditional puppets from Mali, Myanmar, China, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, India, Turkey, Belgium, Italy and Spain
- Puppets, reconstructions of scenery sets and sketches of puppet shows where Hermenegildo Lanz intervened
- Puppetry workshop
- Models and explanatory videos
- Puppet theatre
- To learn more
- Educational workshop
1.600 m2 of exhibition space,
300 puppets,
8 large original sceneries,
workshop and theatre
Puppets. 30 years of Etcétera is an exhibtion concept and produced by Parque de las Ciencias and Etcétera
«I’ve never seen such a complete and spectacular exhibition, still reflecting the actual work of a company, Etcétera, puppeteer spans the globe as a whole regarding the techniques, history, the various possible dimensions and dialogue between tradition and modernity . In this sense, one can say that being a puppet of art we call «total» (for the freedom we have in the use of different forms of artistic and scenic), exposure could also be described as «total», the cover as many different aspects and perspectives of gender of the puppets.
We are indeed facing one of the main events in the history of puppetry in Spain, as an exhibition ever held in our country, and certainly in much of the world-and that signs something I already knew but the roundness visual, artistic and pedagogical ratifies this exhibition: the fact of Etcétera occupy one of the positions in the world ranking pointers of puppet companies.»
Toni Rumbau, in Titeresante.
«The story of puppets that we want to show in this exhibition transcends the history of the company Etcetera. It’s a universal story. It is about the effort to materialise the ideas that fill our minds. Of the marvellous blend of art and techniques that is the world of puppets. About talent, lighting, sound, colour, pulleys, counterweights, rhythm … all at the service of a story. This exhibition is, in short, about the amazing creativity of human beings.»
Ernesto Páramo. Director of Parque de las Ciencias
Director: Ernesto Páramo
Coordination: Javier Medina
Exhibition Coordination: Manuel Roca
Graphic Coordination: Inmaculada Melero
Education: Paz Posse
Communications and press diffusion: Cristina González, Lourdes López
Exhibition development: Juan José Robles, Lilia Bravo, Ángela Rodríguez, Víctor Costa, Esther Alcedo, Maica Hervás, Elisa Wilkinson, Ignacio Sánchez, Víctor Palacios, Alice Durand, Nieves Lardón
Administration: Pilar López, Javier Arroyo, Fernando Vélez, María Angustias Meler
Etcétera
Curators: Enrique Lanz, Yanisbel Victoria Martínez
Exhibition desing, lighting desing and audiovisuals realization: Enrique Lanz
Exhibition desing assistance: Isabel Bustamante, Carlos Montes
Construction exhibitions element and assembly: Isabel Bustamante, Enrique Lanz , Carlos Montes, Óscar Ruiz, Yanisbel Victoria Martínez
Texts: Yanisbel Victoria Martínez
Translation: Wendy Booher
Graphic desing: Fabiola Garrido
Actividades diarias
Shows the movement of some of the exposed puppets
From Tuesday to Saturday: 11:15, 13:15 and 17:15 hSundays and Holidays: 11:15 and 13:15 hTours of 30 minutes where we show the movement of some puppets of our most iconic shows. Although this is an exhibition in a museum context, our work is essentially theatrical, and the theater is movement, game, action … The body of the puppet is only complete with motion, animation, so it seems important that this can be seen at certain times of exposure.
Shadow Theatre Workshop
From Tuesday to Saturday: 11:45, 13:45 and 17:45 h
Sundays and Holidays: 11:45 and 13:45 h
Workshop for 30 minutes, allowing a brief introduction to shadow theater. It is to children and adults. Through simple silhouettes, different sources of light and shadow body, explains the principles of shadow theater. Is learned playing, whether it is a highly practical activity.
Puppeteer´s Workshop
From Tuesday to Saturday: 11:45 to 13:15/ 13:45 to 14:30/ 17:45 to 19:00
Sundays and Holidays: 11:45 to 13:15/ 13:45 to 14:30
The workshop is a very special place for the puppeteer: a tailor-made microcosm in which he works and experiments until he achieves what he imagines. It is here where he can spend more time than in the theater, because the process for designing and building the puppets islengthy. Behind every puppet there are many hours of searching, and there are moments of solitude and reflection, hardship and joy.
Here we recreate a workshop that reminds us a bit of all of them: a place that blends works in progress, scavenged objects, materials, finished works, models, remnants of old productions, tools, discarded dolls, and molds. Although everything appears disorderly, it eventually ends up in order onstage. We wanted to show this contrast between the harmonious and chaotic in this exhibition.
At the times indicated, is in the workshop a member of our company working at the sight of visitors, and answer your questions.
We are pleasantly surprised to note the good response to this activity among children and adolescents who show infinite curiosity about puppets.
Puppets. 30 years of Etcétera (1981-2011)
Catalogue of the exhibition and book-memory of 30 years of Etcétera.
It also contains information on the traditional puppet theaters and puppet work of Hermenegildo Lanz.
Consult index.
Spanish and English bilingual edition
192 pages
Date of Publication: 2012
Price: 16.00 €
Edition: Parque de las Ciencias de Granada
Coordination, editing and Spanish translations: Yanisbel Victoria Martínez
Texts (© authors): María del Mar Moreno Ruiz, Ernesto Páramo, Enrique Lanz, Yanisbel Victoria Martínez, Alfonso Alcalá, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Miguel Martín Rubí, Penny Francis, Enrique Rueda, Joan Matabosch, Carles Gibert, Juan Mata, Enrique Varela, Carlos Laredo, Jorge de Persia, Brunella Eruli, Maryse Badiou, Rubén Darío Salazar, Adolfo Ayuso, Joan Baixas
Photographs (© authors): Enrique Lanz, Ricardo Lanz, Javier del Real, Nieves Sanz, Jesús Martínez Atienza, Javier Algarra, Jorge Dragón
Graphic desing: Fabiola Garrido
English translations: Wendy Booher
Corrections: Wendy Booher (English), Abel González Melo (Spanish)
Thanks: Abel González Melo, Orestes Pérez Estanquero, Miguel Romero, Rubén Darío Salazar, Paul Sheren, Yipsia Torres
Gráficas Alhambra
ISBN: 978-84-938590-4-6
Depósito Legal: GR- 1832/ 2012
It is on sale in the Parque de las Ciencias and in book shops of Madrid and Barcelona: La Central, Laie, Yorick and Panta Rhei.
Through the websites of these book shops can also be purchased online.
«The exhibition of Etcétera has a mute and indispensable supplement accompanying the visit: the Catalog. More than a catalog, would be classed as a treaty that dissects, clarifies and provides the necessary keys visit to understand in depth but also in extending what is seen, showing the hidden sides that hide in every puppet figure, decorated and historical moment. (…) The set, beautifully illustrated with a wealth of historical images, many of them unpublished, and design precisely who was founder of Etcetera, Fabiola Garrido, and will be a classic in the history of puppetry in Spain. «
On Friday June 8 was inaugurated the exhibition. We are very pleased with the result, the public acceptance, the impact on press. Here we share some links to articles or comments posted:
El país, “Aquel titiritero a la vera de Lorca”, by Elsa Fernández-Santos
El país, “Etcétera y sus juguetes del arte”, by Fernando Valverde
El mundo, “El mecanismo de la magia”, by José Antonio Cano
Terra Noticias TV, “Granada recupera el mundo de los títeres de Lorca y Falla”
Granada Hoy, “La vida en las marionetas”, by Jesús Arias
Ideal, “Un bellísimo y olvidado Etcétera”, by Ángeles Peñalver
Ideal, “La magia del títere y la mezcla entre el arte y la técnica…”
Teleprensa Periódico Digital de Granada, “Arte, tecnología y creatividad…”
Granada Digital.com, “Una nuestra reivindica el títere como art…”
A falta de mochuelos, «Mamá, de mayor quiero ser titiritero»
Ideal, «El retablo de Maese Pedro’ se verá en el Parque de las Ciencias en 2013», by Inés Gallastegui
Ideal, “Hermenegildo Lanz, el artista borrado”, by Inés Gallastegui
Ideal, «Pedro y el lobo un éxito para todos los públicos«, by Alfredo Aguilar
Ideal, «Instrumentos con mucho cuento», by Inés Gallastegui
Titeresante, «Éxito de público en la exposición de Etcétera en Granada», by Toni Rumbau
Titeresante, “Asombrosa exposición de Etcétera en Granada”, por Toni Rumbau
Canal Sur, “Con-ciencia”, entre los minutos 11 y 19
RTVE, «La aventura del saber»
The Parque de las Ciencias developed a complete press kit in Spanish, English and French. It is accompanied by two photographic reports on the exhibiton and the official ceremony of inauguration.
There are also numbers of tweets from the vistiors, which are available on our twitter profile as well as reviews and publications on our facebook page.
