The Museums of Sitges join the Festival with two exhibitions around the fictional figures of Frankenstein and Pepe Carvalho

The Museums of Sitges join the Festival of Cinema with two exhibitions that are welcomed in their facilities. The name of the exhibitions is Homage to Pepe Carvalho, in the exhibition hall of Can Rocamora, and Frankenstein Lives: 21 new insights on the creature of Mary Shelley, at the Blue Hall of the Maricel Palace. The two exhibitions provide an artistic vision within the program of parallel activities of the Festival.

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.

For their part, Frankenstein Lives: 21 new insights on the creature of Mary Shelley brings together 21 illustrations on the legendary figure of Frankenstein. The artists that have made works are Raquel  Lagartos, Sara Morante, Javier Olivares, Fernando Vicente, Mireia Pérez, Tyto Alba, Joaquín Pertierra, MBRichart, Pedro Rodríguez, Miriampersand, Irene Gracia, Raquel Aparicio, Elena Odriozola, Juan Miguel Aguilera, Raúl Cáceres, Raquel Alzate, Dídac Pla, Carlos Rodríguez Casado, Laia Arqueros, Santiago Sequeiros and Carlos Spottorno.

The exhibition is curated by the writer Fernando Marías and is part of the multidisciplinary project Frankenstein Lives, which includes in a book the 21 illustrations to accompany 21 stories on the mythical figure. The exhibition can be seen in the Blue Hall of Maricel Palace until Sunday 14.