The Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua (AVL - Academy of Valencian Language), in collaboration with the Universitat de València and the Carles Salvador Foundation of Benassal, has opened at the Estudi General Room of the Cultural Centre La Nau the monographic exhibition about the teacher, grammarian, and poet Carles Salvador Gimeno (1893-1955), in the framework of the events that the regulatory institution dedicates each year to one of the greatest intellectuals and Valencian writers aiming to recover the significance of his work for the collective memory.
The opening, on Thursday, had the presence of the president of the Generalitat of Valencia, Ximo Puig; the principal of the Univeristat de València, Esteban Morcillo; and the president of the AVL, Ramon Ferrer.
According to Antonio Ariño, Vice-principal for Culture and Equality of the University of Valencia; Emili Casanova, academic and president for the Carles Salvador year commission; and Lluís Meseguer, academic and commissioner of this project, the exhibition, titled ‘Carles Salvador i el seu Temps’ (‘Carles Salvador and his Time’), is focused on the different aspects that defined the personal and professional life of the school teacher, who studied at the Universitat, rooted in the lands and the society of the time, and without whom today it would be impossible to understand the cultural and literary Valencianism of the first half of the last century, together with important characters of the Valencian culture as Emili Beüt, González Martí, Ferrer Pastor, Nicolau Primitiu, or Sanchis Guarner, among others.
The green colour of the classic blackboard is the link between the seven blocks that form the exhibition: ‘La vida nova. Família, ciutat i Universitat’ (‘The new life. Family, city, and University’); ‘Mestre de Benassal. L’escola i el territori’ (‘Teacher of Benassal. The school and the territory’); ‘La república de les lletres. L’escriptura: art i espectacle’ (‘The republic of literature: art and spectacle’); ‘València capital. La societat moderna: política, educació, llengua’ (‘Capital Valencia. The modern society: politics, education, language’); ‘La poesia valenciana en 1930. Els literats valencians i la modernitat’ (‘Valencian poetry in 1930. Valencian writers and Modernism’); ‘Mestre de Benimaclet. Ensenyar, escriure en temps difícils’ (‘Teacher in Benimaclet. Teaching, writing in hard times’), and ‘Les noves generacions. La llengua i la cultura contemporànies’ (‘The new genrations. The contemporary language and culture’).
The exhibition perfectly reflects the three fundamental aspects of the career of Carles Salvador: the language, the education, and the land. His work in these fields allowed for the Valencian schools, especially the schools of Aielo de Malferit, Pobla de Benifassà, Benasal and Benimaclet, to meet the flora and fauna, the history and culture, just as the most modern European pedagogical renewal movements recommended, as reminds the commisioner of the curator of the exhibition, the academic Lluís Meseguer.
Prolific columnist of journals of the time, as ‘Foc i Flama’, ‘Pàtria Nova’, or ‘El Poble Valencià’, Carles Salvador dedicated great part of his literary production to poetry with works as ‘Plàstic’, ‘Rosa dels vents’, ‘El cor en la mà’, ‘Jardinet’, or ‘El bes als llavis’, among others, without quitting other genres as the novel and theatre. The figure of the teacher became one of the great characters of the Valencian culture during the first decades of the 20th century.
The love towards the Valencian language was also a constant in the life of Carles Salvador. The language politician, as people called him those years, understood the need of having a basic regulation, rules that were established in Castellón in 1932. His ‘Gramàtica valenciana’ (‘Valencian grammar’) and the language courses of Lo Rat Penat opened the way to many other distinguished Valencianists, who continued the work started by the writer whose ex libris had the motto: “València per damunt de tot” (“Valencia above all”).
The exhibition ‘Carles Salvador i el seu Temps’ is open to visits until 29th November.
Last update: 18 de september de 2015 08:04.
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