DIVINA INVENCIÓN
o la celebración del amor

SEGIO BLANCO (UY/FR)

After the last year’s great success of his monologue in auto-fictional form Memento Mori o la celebracíon de la muerte, Uruguayan director, author and actor Sergio Blanco returns to FIT. He is back to tell us about love with Divina Invención o la celebración del amor, a monologue performed by the author himself, again in the form of a lecture. He confronts love, dissecting its disparate effects on those who enjoy/suffer it. “If it is true that, as Lope professes, love is a science that makes us wise, it is also true that it connects us with the most brutal part of us. However, beyond the fact that love is between civilization and barbarism, wisdom and rudeness, the human and the brutal, I think it is a sublime experience that always ends up transforming us” says Blanco, who comes on stage only with and images running behind, including paintings by Francis Bacon, who is called upon here to sanction the marriage between love and violence. The visual journey does not stop only in physical places (Heidelberg, Hong Kong, Venice, Manhattan, Río de la Plata, Geneva…), but it also dwells on icons such as Superman, Cleopatra, Lancelot, Melibea, Scarlett O’ Hara… An evocative cocktail of citations that Blanco prepares “with the caution of the academic and the exaltation of the artist”.

DIVINA INVENCIÓN O LA CELEBRACIÓN DEL AMOR
Text, direction and performance Sergio Blanco
audiovisual design & artistic collaboration Philippe Koscheleff
production CNTC
distribution Matilde López Espasandín

WED 06.10.2021 | 20.30
PALCO TEATRO LAC – LUGANO

22.00 Ater-show meeting with the audience,
moderators Simon Valdwogel and Katia Gandolfi