Thursday, July 9
2:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m.
CAFÉ TANGO • La Cumparsita with Solange Bazely
Price : FREE
Due to a last-minute conflict, the lecture on "The History of Argentine Comics" scheduled for Thursday, July 9th at Café Tango by Juan Saenz Valiente has been cancelled. It has been replaced (at short notice!) by a lecture on «"La Cumparsita"» (Everything you've always wanted to know about Cumparsita but were afraid to ask!) proposed by Solange Bazely.
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“La Cumparsita” is considered the anthem of tango, the most emblematic and widely recorded and broadcast throughout the world, easily recognizable regardless of the version. This lecture offers you a deeper understanding of the extraordinary history of this Uruguayan tango, which unexpectedly became a universal anthem! This well-documented and surprising story provides an opportunity to learn more about Uruguay and also to travel the world. It will be followed by a listening session featuring some of the most unusual versions.
From Monday 6 to Saturday 11 July, Café Tango welcomes you to the Galerie de la Librairie Ombres Blanches for passionate and exciting encounters around tango and its culture, presented by Serge Davy and Solange Bazely.
Take the opportunity to discover and purchase books on tango on site, including of course those by the authors present, which they will be happy to sign for you.
Doors open at 2pm every day.
✦ "History of Argentine comics"
During this Café Tango Talk, Juan Sáenz Valiente will introduce us to the treasures of the Argentine school of comics, a "historieta" that has influenced many cartoonists and writers around the world. We will encounter the work of Alberto Breccia, Jose Muñoz, Hugo Pratt, Héctor Oesterheld, creator of "L'Eternaute," as well as Carlos Sampayo, Francesco Solano López… We will discuss magazines with print runs of thousands of copies, such as "Frontera" and "Misterix," which defined the Golden Age of Argentine comics, from 1940 to the early 1960s, much like the Golden Age of tango, which also influenced Argentine comics, as Juan Sáenz Valiente will explain.
Juan Sáenz Valiente
Juan Sáenz Valiente was born in 1981 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has lived in France since 2022.
From a very young age, Juan was interested in comics and cartoons. After school, he would join his father's animation studio and observe the meticulous and laborious work of constructing images.
In 2003 he directed a short animated film “Jubilados” (“Retirees”), a film that garnered significant attention in Argentina, in which retirees express, through artistic gymnastics and acrobatics, their melancholic vision of life.
In 2010, he illustrated "The Hypnotist" from a script by Pablo de Santis (published by Casterman), a graphic novel adapted into a TV series on HBO. Also with Pablo de Santis, Juan Sáenz Valiente, aka Juanungo, drew the fantasy thriller "Cobalt" (published by Michel Lafon). He received the Carlos Trillo Prize, named after another great master of Argentine comics, with whom Juanungo created the graphic novel "Sarna" (published by Albin Michel).
In 2018, he wrote and illustrated "Sudestada" (Ed. Michel Lafon), a must-read!
In 2023, "L'animateur" (Ed. Delcourt) was published, a funny and moving story, which gives a magnificent account of his father's last work.
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