If one thing can be guaranteed, it is that the award does not live on glamour. Although who needs glamor when you give a million euros to the winner and 200,000 to the finalist
Pioneering pillar of the sacrosanct cultural industry, that almost oxymoron that is so useful for giving you a VIP card in a fashion club if you are a content creator for a platform as for the City Council of L’Hospitalet to listen to an international investment fund who wants to do something museum-like, who knows what, in the old and patrimonial Godó i Trias factory, the same investment fund to make matters worse that came out shorn of the adventure of a Hermitage franchise in Barcelona; pioneering pillar of the cultural industry, the Planeta Prize would put Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of ‘Vogue’, to sleep or cause a fit of indignation. If one thing can be guaranteed, it is that the award does not live on glamour. Although who needs glamor when you give a million euros to the winner and 200,000 to the finalist.
Stopwatch in hand, the first to arrive was the writer Rosa Ribas. Too soon it came, in fact. So cool with her sneakers and her backpack. It turns out that in her debut as a guest, last year, she found an American clue to get to the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) because of the King’s attendance. And she was late, late at dinner. She yesterday she was not going to happen to him. “I’m a bit embarrassed to be the first, but I had a hard time being the late one in 2021,” she said as she prepared to wait a long time for the appetizer to start. On the way up to the MNAC she came across an Oktoberfest in a Fira pavilion, which she informed after years as a resident of Germany, is celebrated in September in Bavaria.
In reality there was almost a ‘photo finish’: Luis Bassat came hot on the heels of Ribas.
Crossed arms
It didn’t take long to start the parade for the ‘photocall’. Crossed arms and clasped hands made it clear in the queue that not everyone was as comfortable in their clothes as Ribas. Among the men, the dictatorship of the navy blue suit, to the extent that a couple of blue suits attracted attention. Not to mention the flamboyant officer in the plaid jacket.
For lower-ranking attendees there was a photographic self-service: a base with a replica of the award with which to take a selfie.
Aperitif, we have said: bites that are gobbled up without knowing or asking what they are and, to choose, or to drink one after another, cabernet sauvignon from the Costers del Segre, albariño from the Rías Baixas and cava from the Penedès. Galicia won by a landslide.
As for dinner: lobster salad, cherry tomato confit, sour apple and watercress emulsion; roasted sea bass with citrus meunière, checkerboard (checkerboard!) of vegetables and sweet potato parmentier; and apple tatin, creamy vanilla and lemon compote. Sure: coffee and petits fours. Menu served by Semon.
no cameo
Mariana Enríquez was a member of the jury at the Sitges Film Festival, which ended yesterday. There was hope among the small youth circles (in her forties) that the author of ‘Nuestra parte de noche’ would fall for the MNAC, if only to avoid Wintour’s nod or tantrum with the flash of one of her cameos around her neck . It was not so.
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The 71st Planeta Award ceremony was presided over by the Second Vice President of the Government and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz. Along with her, on behalf of the central government, the Ministers of Education, Pilar Alegría; Culture and Sports, Miquel Iceta, and Universities, Joan Subirats.
In addition, the mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, and the ‘minister’ of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Natàlia Garriga, as well as her counterpart from Madrid, also a writer Marta Rivera de la Cruz, attended.