“This gap cannot be repeated.” she says Joseph Ginestar and it is enough to cross the threshold of the former houses of the teachers of the Gata de Gorgos to be sure that he is right. Here is the headquarters Municipal School of Experimental Plastics A. Vives. School is also not repeatable. Artists create with absolute freedom. Ginestar explains that she has made an unbreakable agreement with her students. You can talk to them about their work with complete candor and need not be angry, but then the artists may rebel and the teacher will not take this disobedience seriously. Ginestar discusses with his students and discusses experimental art. disrupts the classical teaching order. He explains that when he started this art school 30 years ago and agreed to lead it, he already set a premise: the freedom to teach without prejudice. The experimental art school had to break free from the old codes used by the municipal painting schools, to tackle still lifes and landscapes (too canonical), explore without fear.
“We are now preparing a three-dimensional exhibition. will open new field» advances Ginestar. And yes, the school is moving. And everyone feels a pang of nostalgia. Creators, masters’ homes an effervescent sanctuary. Each has its own room-workshop, each following its own rhythm. “They can come to create whenever they want. In that, too, they have complete freedom,” says Ginestar.
The school currently has 26 students (the number ranges from 25 to 30 per subject). One of its riches is its different visions of art. There are creators coming to Marina Alta. Belgium, Italy, Argentina, United States of America anyone Morocco. Here they found a place to “dialogue”. The school also functions as a sort of artist residence.
“Of course technique is important. We’re working on it. But you have to unravel the mystery,” warns Ginestar. “Art is a journey and I ask artists where they want to go. From there we suggest how to make the trip and the technique comes into play. But the important thing is that everyone finds their creative path. And if everyone followed the same concept, of course I would see it as a personal failure.
Even Fine Arts graduates who want to explore contemporary and avant-garde art attend the school. There are also extraordinary artists. pepa casellesBaptized as 84-year-old resident of Gata Jackson Pollock From the High Navy. He paints with brooms and mops and shows great skill in color and composition.
The school is moving. The teacher’s house is old and has structural problems. The new space is transparent and bright. “We are very proud of the city council’s commitment to the school,” says Ginestar.
The enthusiasm of the school has enriched the artistic scene of Marina Alta and the Valencian Community. It has been one of the most important initiatives to create art for saleit became an image of street art (cloths hanging from Gata’s balconies). The most important open-air exhibition of textile art in Spain. Artists from half the world participate.
Source: Informacion
