This collage “The first festival in Alicante of this artistic technique, which consists of combining different elements in the same image, will wallpaper the interior of Espacio Séneca in the coming days. ALC Collage Fest will be held between 20-30 April and will have the central axis is a great collective exhibition With the creations of ten famous collage artists of the current national scene, curated by the creator from Alicante Galvez for thiswill display the works of each artist on four-meter-long boards.
with Galvez Félix Andrada, Marisa Maestre, Max-o-Matic, Miriam Martínez Abellán, Rafa Fans, Rebeka Elizegi, Sandra Del Río, Susana Blasco, Madrid Collage Society, Teo Vázquez. Leading artists and illustrators in the Spanish art scene and beyond our borders, working for media such as The Guardian, the Spanish Embassy in the US, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Romance Museum, Cerralbo Museum. .. They all share the same technique but speak completely different languages, and the exhibition will allow the visitor to broaden their horizons about this artistic universe,” the curator adds, adding that the collage world is currently experiencing its “sweet spot”. an eternity of artists and fond people people who fall in love with this technique and fill social networks with images day by day”.
Involving the audience in these heterogeneous works of artists that “goes beyond cut and paste” is one of the goals of the program organized by the artists during these ten days. Victor Lariowith the help of Hope Duranthrough the Alicante Department of Culture, complete with a variety of talks, workshops and events for all audiences with free access.
In addition to established artists, a space for “new creators”, which will show a choice 20 suggestions in a collective mural, More than 140 people from different places in a call launched for amateurs who practice this technique in a non-professional way.
Lario, the organizer of the Design Marketplace in Alicante, has been trying to organize this meeting for several years, where there will be proposals closely linked to recycling and feminism, and “a boom Collage is an expanding art, and starting from this discipline is within everyone’s reach because you can do whatever you want.”
Mayor of Culture Antonio Manresawanted to encourage all Alicante and visitors to attend this festival, “where there is a new offer and all audiences are welcomed”.