At the end of last year, Alicante City Council Culture Department swelled the municipal collections with a dozen contemporary artworks from local creators. The importance of this purchase is a total value of 62,300 Eurosits support to artists is also the reason why this institution had not received new works in twenty years.
From yesterday to September 4, these pieces are a The exhibition in Lonja de Alicante, As a way to tell the history of the visual arts in Alicante, as part of the public art heritage to complement collections that a new generation of artists are not part of or underrepresented.
The exhibition opened yesterday by the Cultural Council Member, Anthony Manresaconsists of works Tobacco Company IIof the Antonio Alcaraz; lightning in a boxby Aurelio Ayela; Orange sonata, blue movement, by Miguel Bañuls; magic screenof the Ana Esteve Reig; discourse of uncertaintyby Daniel G. Andújar; The vitality of Medusa’s hairby Susana Guerrero; Collection of silences Iby Aurelia Masanet; Infinite language of the grid, The Poetics of Contradiction, The Archeology of Metaphor Y Infinite displacement of the object -all in the series Deconstruction on paper- by Luisa Pastor; pharaohof the ORGIA Collective and Children’s CornerBy Jesus Zuazo.
This public call 240 offers from 137 artists were submittedthere will be continuity and on Friday 8th Provincial Official Bulletin is publishing the foundations of a new one for this year in order to continue its artistic achievements.
The investment amount will be the same, around 60,000 euros, and the bases include: You cannot obtain an artist’s work which parts were purchased in the previous three years.
According to the Cultural Council Member, the composition of the evaluation committee also varies. Will stay Rosa Castells, curator of municipal collections and cat rodriguez, Lonja’s programmer in addition to Manresa as president, but will attend every year to an artist whose work was purchased in a previous edition.
The creators were selected next week in 2021 to decide who they would be and draw will be made electing these two members. “What we want give more transparency to the competition,” he says.
Antonio Manresa emphasizes the “devotion of the Ministry in acquiring work by artists from the province to showcase their work in a municipal area such as Lonja”. And he hopes that “people and visitors from Alicante will come to enjoy the exhibition” during the summer period.
Source: Informacion
