Juan Manuel Bonet directed the Cervantes Institute – The Universal

The art critic and writer Juan Manuel Bonet, current head of the center of the Instituto Cervantes, will be the new director of the Cervantes in replacement of Victor Garcia de la Concha, today reported to Efe sources of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport Spanish.

The Government will reveal tomorrow in their weekly meeting to García de la Concha, which takes just five years at the head of the institution for the promotion and defense of the Spanish language and the dissemination of the culture of Spain and Latin america.

Bonet (Paris, 1953), considered one of the experts in contemporary painting more important in Spain, is the director of the Cervantes Institute in the French capital since 2012, he has been director of the Reina Sofia Museum (2000-2004) and the IVAM of Valencia (1995-2000).

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The Cervantes Institute of Paris paid tribute to the mexican poet with the presentation of the book “Eastern Slope” and the documentary “The Labyrinth of Octavio Paz”

Published in 1983 his first book of poems, homeland dark, followed by, among others, Café des exilés (1990), Prague, twelve poems of Pavel Hrádock (1994) and Postcards (2003), in addition to the dietary of prose poems The round of days (1990), whose French translation had prologue of Octavio Paz, and is the author of Dictionary of the Avant-gardes of Spain (1907-1936).

Garcia de la Concha (Asturias, 1934) is leading the Cervantes since 2012 and in the last few weeks has commented publicly on several occasions that his intention was to retire.

The designation of the director of the Cervantes Institute, whose main objectives are the promotion and teaching of the Spanish language and the dissemination of the culture of Spain and Latin america, corresponds to the ministries of Education, Culture and Sport and of Foreign Affairs.

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For the director of the institution of this action “could be a harbinger of other negative attitudes”

García de la Concha has been the director of the Institute, but the executive task has fallen on Rafael Rodríguez Ponga, with a long experience as director-general during the previous government of the Popular Party.

Established in 1991, the Instituto Cervantes has a network of 87 centers in 44 countries across five continents. Eight of them are in South america and six in North America.

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