Miguel Calatayud (three trips) Paul Auladell (Paradise Lost, 2013-14), Juan Carlos Nadal’s photo. (noctiluca); Josep Pedros and Ginestar (shelter); collective DimasIA -Diana Lozano + Alvaro Jaen- (cloud pool); Elena Aguilera (no sky); Illuminated Garcia Torres (thread of Ariadne); Jesus Herrera (Suggestion for equestrian portrait); M Shovel Wild (Just like full, like big me); Nuria Fuster (Mirrors have memory) Silvia Semper Ripoll (Sordium Continuum. barbarian tastes).
these Eleven proposals by artists from the province of Alicante part of the exhibition Generalitat Valenciana IV Contemporary Artopened this Friday at the Las Cigarreras cultural center, which houses a total of 37 works acquired in 2020 from artists from the autonomous region for the Generalitat Collection.
It’s the most voluminous because this acquisition is “in a complex year, in 2020, in the midst of a pandemic and Generalitat decided to double its budget for purchases and reach 500.000 €“, recalled the director of the Valencia Community Museums Consortium, José Luis PerezPonttogether with the Cultural Council Member in the promotion of the exhibition, Anthony Manresaand some of the participating creators like Silvia Sempere and Iluminada García from Alicante. Manresa underlined the quality of the works in the exhibition, which he described as “amazing” and invited the public to visit the exhibition. “to bring us closer to contemporary art and in many cases surprisingly more unknown”.
Contemporary art collection of Generalitat Culture Launched in 2017 and continues to exist by bringing together representative pieces of the Valencian art scene. Balanced numbers of male and female artists from Castellón, Alicante and Valencia, no generation guidelines or thematic restrictions. Various formats with offers for painting, sculpture, watercolor, drawing, photography, video and installationsattests to the diversity of records in creation and the reality of our time. In these five yearsinvested €1.7 million and the collection consists 129 works. Additionally, those bought in 2021 can be seen at L’Escorxador and Llotja de Elche from 21 September.
“A way to keep the pulse of current creation and to know where the shots are going in contemporary art,” said Pérez Pont. add artists and galleries and give them visibility of the community” and continues five years later “take muscle from the area” through art and “making a demand” outside of geographic boundaries “Something that didn’t happen before 2017 and we already know that and there are galleries that feature artists from our collection” by gallery owners who are interested in works purchased by a public institution like Generalitat.
Besides the above-mentioned Alicante artists Alejandro Casanova, Alejandro Mañas, Álex Marco, Amanda Moreno, Ángeles Marco, Carmen Calvo, Carmen Ortiz, Carolina Ferrer, Chema López, Claudia Martínez, Concha Ros, Elena Martí, Ester Pegueroles, Juan Fabuel, Juan Ortí, Julia Galán, Palau , Lluc Margrau, Lluís Masià, Nuria Riaza, Oliver Johnson, Roberto Molla, Sergio Barrera, Silvia Lerín, Vicente Ortí Y Vinz Feel Free.