The Cinemateca Foundation welcomed filmmakers, writers, plastic artists, musicians and promoters of the sector at its headquarters in this city to pay tribute to “irreverence made life” at a gala attended by Prensa Latina.
When thanking the selection of the Cinematheque for this celebration, its director Mela Márquez highlighted Arze’s contributions and his role in promoting various manifestations of Bolivian culture in the nine departments of this South American country and in the world, especially in France. .
He highlighted the merit that corresponds to this innovator rooted in the essence of Bolivianness from the tables and music, who, above the lack of financial support, placed the artistic creation of the highland country in a prominent place.
An audiovisual projected in one of the rooms of the Cinematheque covered the life of the honoree and the members of Pequeño Teatro performed a performance in which they declared Prohibited to prohibit, one of the most important creations of the artist.
The Bolivian Association of Actors, the painter Róger Waypara, the Albor theater group and the sculptor from Tarija Walter López awarded recognitions, who all qualify as a human being from whose words you always learn.
Arze insisted on the conviction that “we are what we do, but let’s do it with our heart”.
Initiated in tabla and music in 1965, the artist joined the University Experimental Theater in 1967 and a year later organized the First Bolivian Jazz Festival, in which he introduced Bolivian wind instruments in this expression of universal music.
He founded the Theater of the French Alliance in 1971, but in 1974 he was arrested by the Hugo Bánzer dictatorship and exiled to France, a country where he taught Bolivian theatrical art and music.
Upon returning to his homeland in 1990, he founded the Pequeño Teatro cultural movement, with which he staged more than 100 plays and won national and foreign awards.
The creator also excelled as a photographer and luriri (Bolivian wind and percussion instrument craftsman), specialties in which he has presented exhibitions on different continents.
Arze received in 2014 the title of Master of Arts in Theater, conferred by the Ministry of Education, and several decorations for his contribution to the development of culture in the Andean-Amazonian country.
He is currently a director of the Cultural Foundation of the Central Bank of Bolivia.
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2023-06-28 06:20:54
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