As part of the exhibition “Nazario, art and dissidence in times of repression and liberation”, a discussion will be held with the participation of artists Manel Fontdevila i Subirana, Marta Cartu and Kike Ortega Romero. Based on the work of Nazario, considered one of the fathers of Spanish underground comics and one of the key figures of the Barcelona countercultural movement of the seventies, this talk wishes to discuss comics as a place to transcend the dominant values in our society.
Manel Fontdevila i Subirana. Born in Manresa, he is a Catalan comic book author. He has been one of the most prominent authors of the satirical weekly ‘El Jueves’, where he created the series Para ti que eres joven!, in collaboration with Albert Monteys, and La Parejita. In 2014 he left the magazine due to the censorship of a cover with Juan Carlos I and Felipe VI by the RBA and, with other former members of El Jueves, he created the digital magazine Orgullo y satisfación, until its disappearance in December 2017. He currently publishes in the newspapers El Diario and Ara. He has also collaborated in the Catalan satirical magazine Illegal Times.
Marta Cartu. She is a comic creator and works in the fields of artistic creation and education. In recent years she has published her first full-length comic Hola Siri and has written several short stories in the context of self-publishing. She has designed activities and educational interventions for different cultural entities, such as the CCCB, MNAC, Disseny HUB or the Born CCM.
Enrique Ortega i Romero. Artistic researcher and mediator specializing in visual language. He has held several exhibitions related to male eroticism. He has exhibited in Barcelona, Santiago de Compostela and New York. One of the most relevant investigations was “Gender Dissent and the Counterculture of the Dominatrix in the Underground Comic” (2021). Or the article for the digital magazine Lluerna (from Fundació Miró) entitled ‘The Boy with the Fire Flowers Blanket’ (2022). He currently carries out independent public programming for cultural centers.
