Next Friday, March 16, the sculptor of the Sagrada Familia Etsuro Sotoo will give a lecture at the University of Navarra, under the degree scroll "Learning from Gaudí: conversations about the Sagrada Familia". The session, which will take place at 12.30 p.m. and is open to all those interested, will be held on the occasion of the 16th edition of the Humanities Forum, which has the degree scroll " Humanities in the world".

The sculptor, known as the Japanese Gaudí, arrived in Barcelona in 1978 and was impressed by the Sagrada Familia. Therefore, he decided to abandon his art classes at the University of Kyoto and began to work on the temple. Etsuro Sotoo, he says, realized that he should not look at Gaudí, but "look where Gaudí looked" in order to better understand his work. Since then, he has sculpted fifteen works on the Nativity Façade and designed the finials of the gables of the naves with Eucharistic and symbolic motifs, as well as the decoration of the windows and their fruit-shaped pinnacles.

Tàpies, NGOs and a film forum

The Humanities Forum, which will take place in classroom 30 of the Central Building, is organized by students of this Degree the School of Philosophy and Letters and is aimed at students from all Schools. The workshop will start with a presentation, followed by a lecture by Ricardo Piñero, Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Navarra, who will talk about the art of thinking with the hands, focusing on the figure of Antoni Tàpies.

The program also includes a roundtable on NGOs for culture and society, with the participation of students from different associations, such as Fundación Rode, project Creamos from Guatemala and Barabaiki,

After a discussion, the workshop will end with a film forum presented by Alberto Cañada, manager of the Navarra Film Archive, who will comment on the film The Monuments Men, by George Clooney.
 

lecture by Etsuro Sotoo

Day: Friday, March 16
Time: 12.30 h.
Place: classroom 5. School of Communication