Pepín Bello del amor

A poetic and staged reconstruction centred on Pepín Bello, writer, intellectual and photographer of the Generation of '27, which the Teatros del Canal is programming in the Sala de Cristal to mark the centenary of that group.

This production, framed within the centenary of the Generation of '27, reconstructs on stage part of the career of José Bello Lasierra, known as Pepín Bello (Huesca, 1904 – Madrid, 2008). A writer and intellectual, he was the last surviving member of the group in Spain and took the great majority of the photographs that survive from that period. Among his friends were Lorca, Dalí, Alberti and Buñuel.

The work argues that Bello's main contribution was his own life, understood as a space of encounter and creation running through conversation, friendship, humour, desire and shared thought. To this end, the production also brings back Maruja Mallo and La Argentinita, in order to reconstruct part of that artistic and human network that shaped the first decades of the twentieth century.

The piece combines live music, spoken text, painting and a performance-based action. With dramaturgy by Juan Gómez Alemán and production by La Juan Gallery, it moves away from documentary reconstruction in an attempt to convey the atmosphere of an era in which art, friendship and experimentation advanced together. It is staged in the Sala de Cristal of the Teatros del Canal.