Starting this Friday, the Espais d’Art Urbà network in Benidorm will host a new group exhibition, supported by the Department of Historical and Cultural Heritage, which will spread across various neighborhoods of the city where these exhibition spaces are located. The name of the exhibition, which brings together the works of three famous artists and graphic designers in different fields, including ‘collage’ art, is ‘Looking is not as easy as it seems’.‘.
Miriam Martínez Abellán, Susana Blasco and Erre Gálvez are the authors of the plates that make up this exhibition, whose official opening will take place on Friday, October 6, at 11 a.m. on Paseo de Poniente. It intersects with Jaime I. Ana Pellicer, councilor responsible for Historical and Cultural Heritage, emphasized that this exhibition “strengthens our commitment”. “Turn Benidorm into an authentic open-air museum, bringing art closer to people, not the other way around.”. Likewise, the councilor explained that on this occasion citizens and tourists will be able to “consider the various artistic proposals coming from the personal universe of three very different artists”; but they agreed that they were done in such a creative and careful way. Many possibilities like ‘collage’.
L’Espai d’Art Urbà de Ponent will feature the works of Miriam Martínez Abellán. A ‘collage’ summary consisting of 16 images and titled “Experiencing the ineffable”. Here the artist invites us to leave the concrete in order to move towards other possible spaces where everyday contexts are diluted by the influence of dreams and metaphors. Martínez Abellán recreates places where time and identity expand through a mix of cut-ups and casual combinations of fragmented images, textures and colors nostalgic with more current ones reflecting quirks beyond the reach of the word. All of his works, where pure visual poetry emerges, are accompanied by a magical aura of surrealism as well as messages of social commitment.
Espais d’Art Urbà in Carrasco, Pont and Hispanitat will house 18 paintings by Susana Blasco called ‘Fugaces’, ‘Era’ and ‘Radiantes’It consists of geometric collages that aim to explore memory, memories, forgetting and women through fragmentation, repetition, order and a very specific chromatic range around white and ocher, and is directly supported by the material itself. He uses: old photographs he has saved from traces, sometimes from family albums or corporate archives. Here he presents the entire series ‘Fugaces’ (2021), consisting of ten portraits composed of found photographs of up-and-coming models from the 60s, complemented by three collages from the ‘Era’ (2022) series. Additionally, designed specifically for this event, a selection of Quico’s photographs from the Benidorm archive were used to create ‘Radiantes’, five analogue collages in which the sun as a symbol is represented in different ways and becomes the transverse axis of the Series.
Finally, At Espais d’Art Urbà del Campo and Els Tolls you can see 19 paintings collaborated by Alicante artist Erre Gálvez. It proposes a journey in its unique universe consisting of photography and paper. Works created with found items or analog photographs taken by the artist himself and in which he begins to create compositions as in a play. Each piece, consisting of small pieces of history, tangibly opens the doors of nostalgia and memories.
All images will be exhibited for four months, by January 31 of next year. Councilor for Historical and Cultural Heritage, Ana Pellicer, invited citizens to visit the different exhibition areas “to enjoy this comprehensive group exhibition, which we are sure the public will really like”.