Urtasun inaugurates the Pavilion of Spain as the Focus Country at the Angulema Comic Festival (France)

The Minister of Culture, Ernest greater the Pavilion of Spain has opened this Thursday as a focus on the 52nd International Festival of Angulema Comic (France).

The space, created by the multidisciplinary design study Jesús Moreno y Asociados, has an area of ​​245 square meters and is organized in several sections: an area of ​​activities, where there will be uninterrupted programming, or a professional zone aimed at professional meetings among agents of the sector.

In addition, the place will host the exhibition ‘National Comic Prize’, That the minister has visited, together with the curator, Ana Merino, before the opening ceremony, as reported by the Ministry in a statement.

Subsequently, the Minister of Culture has attended the ‘Magistral Class/ Meeting with Paco Roca’, National Comic Award 2008 for ‘Wrinkles’who has opened a cycle in which the witness will take, until Sunday, February 2, Borja González, Juanjo Guarnido and Juan Díaz Canales, Marika Vila, Emma Ríos, Jesús Merino and Juanjo López.

In the Spanish Country Program Focus More than 100 Spanish comic professionals participate under the slogan ‘Spain, talent in vignettes’where the objective of showing the current creativity of the Spanish comic is marked and, at the same time, to value its history.

Creative wealth, bibliodiversity, linguistic plurality and gender equality are the axes of the program, in which creators and creators participate in all official languages.