Eguillor inédito. La obra póstuma inacabada. Literary-Comic sessions

LITERATURE / LITERARY-COMIC SESSION NOV. 5 (Thurs.)

Eguillor inédito. La obra póstuma inacabada

Conference by José Carlos Torre, presented by Luis Gasca

JOSÉ CARLOS TORRE WILL REVEAL AN UNPUBLISHED FACET OF ILLUSTRATOR/ CARTOONIST JUAN CARLOS EGUILLOR, WHERE EROTICISM AND MYTHOLOGY CONVERGE IN COMIC, LITERATURE AND POETRY, THROUGH HIS ROLE AS BILBAO´S DRIZZEL CHRONICLE CARTOONIST.

The painter, cartoonist and illustrator Juan Carlos Eguillor (San Sebastian, 1947 - Madrid 2011), was one of the key authors in the history of comics and illustration in the Basque Country’s press. The researcher and cartoonist José Carlos Torre presents his latest work on Eguillor’s legacy, his creative world and the career of this transmedia artist who was likewise notably known for his video-art works. In this session, Eguillor inédito. La obra póstuma inacabada (Unpublished Eguillor. The unfinished posthumous work), presented by the publisher Luis Gasca, we discover this artist’s inner world beyond his role as Bilbao´s drizzel chronicle cartoonist.

A world in which, as José Carlos Torre states,«Eroticism and mythology converge in an unprecedented way with comic, literature and poetry», where «sexuality is dealt without beating about the bush, i.e. reinterpreting the male body as work material which is deformed and chopped up in a game recalling that of Francis Bacon». As Torres reveals, this is a facet «which he kept under wraps, safe from the dull Bourgeoisie gaze he so often criticised in public». Moreover, “«conditioned as he was by the repressive context of the dictatorship and transition, he preferred to limit himself to playing the role of ‘Bilbao´s drizzel chronicle cartoonist’. This was a role with which he undoubtedly identified himself, and which he acquired through working for the press of the whole country throughout his entire life. However, this role is far from the creator before which we find ourselves», Torres points out. Nine years since his demise, «Eguillor continues helping us identify the prejudices we have assumed and accepted which, unfortunately, we steadfastly defend without realising the fact they neither belong to nor represent us, unless we have been bored to the point that we have become totally extinct», claims the researcher.

November 5, Thursday 5:30pm - 7:30pm Mediateka BBK. TK202 Free admission with invitation (collect at Az Info) until capacity is reached