Homage to Pepe Carvalho presents 25 works by different artists in memory of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and his mythical police character. Among the authors, there are prestigious figures such as Jaume Plensa, Josep Guinovart, Eduardo Arroyo, Joan Pere Viladecans, Benet Rossell, Mariona Brines and Anna Monzó, from Sitges. Each artist has visually reinterpreted a novel by Montalbán and his set allows a varied and polyhedral journey around the figure of Pepe Carvalho.
The exhibition, of traveling character, arrives in Sitges, after having settled in Hamburg, Munich, Seville, Gijón, Oviedo, Palma de Mallorca, Castellón, Girona or Barcelona. The exhibition is curated by Gabi Serrano and will be in Sitges on the 18th of October commemorating the fifteenth anniversary of the death of Vázquez Montalbán. The exhibition will be Can Rocamora until the 21st. Homage to Pepe Carvalho has been inaugurated today, with the presence of the deputy and actor Junco Puigcorbé, who played Carvalho in a series; the director of the festival, Ángel Sala; the commissioner, Gabi Serrano, and the director of Museums of Sitges, Vinyet Panyella.
Cureted: Gabi Serrano
Partner: Sitges - Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya
Timetable:
From Monday to Friday, from 5pm to 7pm.
Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, from 11am to 2pm and from 5pm to 7pm.