Alicante University Museum (MUA) was renewed annual exhibition with funds from the collection Works of 15 artists under the same theme: Art as a storyteller. With this topic title and below the title Lots of stories. Visual stories in the MUA collection, The sample selected by museum technicians is already installed in the Arcadi room. until next July 31.
These in total fourteen pieces from fifteen creatorspenetrating real and imaginary worldssincere memories, social complaints, adventures of love and desire, reflections on the times we live in. “Pieces that transcend the purely objective to become original visual narratives that can tell intense and compelling stories,” says MUA.
The works are produced in different media. painting, photo, collage or video and serves artists from different generations: Marco Algovia, Pedro Álvarez, Begoña Baeza, Dis Berlin, Nacho Bolea, Joan CastejonCayetano Ferrandez, Christina of MiddelCristina Fontsaré, Laila Hotait, Alicia Lamarca, Javier Lorenzo, Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin and Santi Tena.
Museum technicians explain what the exhibition shows The power of figuration as an inexhaustible resource for storytelling: “Each piece in the exhibition is a door opening to the world. imaginationThe opportunity to travel and discover the world in your eyes creativityan enriching encounter with the transformative capacity of art. Painting is a timeless medium that allows artists to share their experiences. worries, dreams and sleepless nightshis experiences and principles, his ideology and imagination”.
Photographyhas definitively escaped its documentary nature, In the service of contemporary creation To be one of the most impressive media that immerses us in moments frozen in time, “capturing the essence of a moment and telling stories of life, love, pain and hope.” collagesinvite with their ability to combine different elements create links unexpected and reinterpreting reality. In this format we find a visual language that shows how different pieces can come together to create a new and exciting narrative. and part video The work in the exhibition tells a true story full of emotion and social accusations with subtlety and heartbreak.