The Argentinian cartoonist based in Maldà (Lleida), Armengol Tolsà Badia, Ermengol, will receive the Premio Notario del Humor of the University of Alicante (UA) in the course of an act that will take place earw Jews on the campus of Sant Vicent del Raspeig de the academic institution.
The award is part of the traditional Social Humor Show of the UA, which this year reaches its XXIII edition and its exhibition is dedicated to 'Public Health: What's wrong with you, doctor?'.
The award ceremony will be attended by the vice-rector of Culture, Sports and University Extension of the UA, Catalina Iliescu, and the cartoonist Enrique Pérez, organizer of the UA's Social Humor exhibition since its inception, in addition to numerous cartoonists who participate this year in the exhibition, as reported this Tuesday by sources from the academic institution.
The University of Alicante and the Federation of Cartoonists of Spain (FECO-Spain) co-organize the Social Humor exhibition.
The exhibition of this edition, which opened to the public on the 2nd and can be visited until November 30 in the Aifos Room on the campus (Faculty of Philosophy and Letters III), is made up of fifty works by 44 cartoonists from from Spain, Europe and America, with which the current problems of public health are highlighted, in a humorous way.
The president of FECO-Spain, Juli Sanchís, has expressed the opinion that "public health is a telephone where no one ever answers (...)" and has warned: "If public health is not restructured in another way, providing the technical means and necessary human resources, we will end up with healthcare for the rich and healthcare for the poor.”
The different editions of 'Social Humor' have become a national reference for graphic humor due to the intelligence, insight, sagacity and commitment of the cartoonists who participate, who approach current events with a critical vision and sensitize the viewer in the most varied social issues.
During all these years, this cycle has brought to the public the work of artists who focus their humorous and ironic gaze on topics such as youth unemployment, mistreatment of women, corruption, intolerance, the importance of reading, discrimination, the crisis of values, climate change or the growing dependence on new technologies and their influence on individual freedom.
Born in the Argentine city of Canals, Armengol Tolsà Badia, 'Ermengol', has lived in Lleida since 1985, according to a statement from the University of Alicante. Five years ago he moved from the provincial capital to Maldà.
He began publishing in the legendary magazine Hortensia at the age of 18, but as a young man he moved to Catalonia, the land of his parents, his grandparents and, now, his children.
A multidisciplinary artist, he has developed his work in different artistic fields such as graphic humor, caricature, illustration, drawing, sculpture and visual poetry. He has worked in various publications - El Jueves, Playboy, Segre (1985-2010) and Diari d'Andorra (1995-2010) - and has been director of the satirical magazine La Quera, as well as promoter of the Humoràlia association, which organizes the eponymous graphic humor contest on Human Rights.
In 1993 he won the Mingote Prize, awarded by the newspaper ABC, and currently publishes his creations in the newspaper La Mañana, Nube, Territoris, Borges Blanques, Almacelles, Vadefruita and, sporadically, on TV3
