05/05. Thursday
19:30 Kutxa Kultur Plaza - Tabakalera
Doña Concha: La rosa y la espina
By Carla Berrocal. Presented by Eduardo Guillot.
Concha Piquer is not only an icon of the copla and the sentimental history of Spain: she was also a woman who broke the mold and changed many of the unwritten laws of show business. A child prodigy, a young Broadway hitmaker and a lover with a very bad eye for men, she was the first tonadillera to have her own company, before the Civil War, and to have exclusive songs in her plays. Doña Concha: la rosa y la espina is an unusual biography that mixes, in vignettes, episodes of her life with interviews that the author has conducted with experts in copla and popular culture. The result is a book that traces a complete panorama of an entire era, as well as a work of impeccable conception and design.
Carla Berrocal
Carla Berrocal (1983) was born in Madrid, where she studied illustration and graphic design. She writes reviews about comics in La Guía del Cómic, and collaborates on the same subject in the radio program of the Círculo de Bellas Artes. In 2004, Recerca Editorial publishes his first work, but it is not until 2006 that his first stories with his own script and drawing are published, thanks to the monographs directed by Jorge Iván Argiz in the publishing house Dolmen: Quattrocento. After a creative break, he collaborates in small compilations such as Nariz, Dos Veces Breve or Reyes X. In 2011 sees the light of day his first graphic novel, El Brujo (De ponent) and in 2016, he launches an experimental comic project inspired by the life of the American poet Nathalie Clifford Barney entitled Epigraphies (Libros de Autoengaño). He has participated in numerous publications such as Hundlebert Syndrome, Revista Fierro, Quimera, Monográfico, Nobrow, among others. She coordinates and participates in the collective work Todas Putas. Los cuentos gráficos (Dibbuks, 2014) and since 2017 she collaborates in the Madrid City Council newspaper "M21 Magazine". In 2019 she is awarded the residency of the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome to develop a comic project inspired by the life of Concha Piquer that has been published in 2021 by Reservoir Books (Penguin Random House). She currently continues to work in her own studio, and teaches workshops on comics and graphic novels in various institutions. She has worked as a comic book artist for various titles and illustrator for many advertising agencies and publishers.