TALK / WORKSHOP IN VALENCIAN
April 4, 2025, at 12:00 noon in the Auditorium of the Faculty of Fine Arts UPV
Free access until full capacity is reached
The 19th century brought to Europe an authentic revolution in the field of the arts, understood in a transversal and holistic way, which affected all levels of culture. Literature and philosophy evolved significantly, but there were two great disciplines that experienced like no others the hatching of the change imposed by modernity: the plastic arts and music. There have often been attempts to establish certain correspondences between the two disciplines, reaching the erroneous conclusion that they followed independent paths, as they did not fully coincide in the temporal axis or in the stiistic division. In reality, the two were deeply interconnected and their reciprocal feedback and stimulus led to the revolutionary emergence of the avant-garde, which would invalidate the values of the respective traditions and would mean the overcoming of academic concepts.
It is intended to unravel the main changes and novelties that took place in the two disciplines, highlighting a series of parallels that have not traditionally been considered and underlining how these two artistic manifestations were the basis of the cultural revolution of contemporaneity, in artistic terms. The objective is to make known this cultural symbiosis and to review some of the artistic milestones from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, told in an entertaining way, for all audiences.
The activity will include an expository-argumentative debate, projections and live piano music, using the facilities of the Alfons Roig Auditorium of the Faculty of Fine Arts, and is scheduled to last 2 hours.
The activity is a masterclass-concert, given as a ‘Dialogue’ between a musician (teacher, musicologist, composer and band director) and an art historian (teacher, researcher and visual artist), specialized in the period:
Roman Garcia is Professor of Music and Music History, musicologist, composer and band conductor. He holds the Superior Degree of Composition (2018) Superior Conservatory of Music Òscar Esplà of Alicante; the Superior Degree of Conducting (2024) at the Superior Conservatory of Music “Joaquín Rodrigo” of València and holds a Master’s Degree in Music Pedagogy (2024) at the International University of La Rioja (UNIR), in addition to other complementary courses in conducting and didactics of music. He has received several awards as a conductor, as a composer and as a performer. With a classical musical background, he has been particularly interested in the advent of Modernity and avant-garde musical practices, especially in the musical changes that took place between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Miquel Ángel Herrero-Cortell is a professor of History and Theory of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Faculty of Fine Arts (UPV). He graduated in Fine Arts (2008); Master in Artistic Production (2009); Master in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (2012), at the Universitat Politècnica de València, and also holds a degree in Art History from the Universitat de València (2014), and a PhD from the Universitat de Lleida (2019), with international mention and extraordinary degree award. As a result of his cross-disciplinary training, his research has a strong multidisciplinary approach. To date he has participated in more than thirty international and national congresses as well as seminars, conferences and other scientific meetings. He has about 80 publications, both in national and international journals and publishers, and has made research stays in places such as the Università degli Studi di Verona (2017); the Kunsthistorisches Instituto de Florencia (2018); the Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche (2023); or the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Florence (2024).