in total seventy artists from Alicante presented about one hundred works To the new call of the Ministry of Culture of Alicante to increase the city’s contemporary art heritage through the purchase of works of art. A professional jury must now decide how the prizes will be distributed. 60.000 € reserved for this purpose before the end of the year.
This initiative was launched by the Alicante City Council last year for the first time after a twenty-year hiatus without new parts being purchased. In the first call, where works were received from ten creators from the province, 248 proposals were submitted from 150 artists, and the number has decreased in this second edition, whose submission period ends on September 30, “still very high, with great creative names who have submitted several works”, to Antonio Manresa, Member of the Cultural Council drew attention.
The call offers some innovation Compared to the first edition, limiting the maximum investment amount per artist to 8,000 euros and now this requirement has disappeared. The Assembly reserves the right not to exhaust the budget in case of complete or partial abandonment of the selection of works.
It won’t be possible to get the works of the artists selected in the last three editions either, and now the two artists that the City Council received works from last year are joining the jury, so, in this case, louis shepherd and Antonio Alcaraz. Both will be on the jury of MACA curators. Rosa Maria Castells; art historian and director of the Gil-Albert Institute, Pilar Tebar; Coordinator of the Lonja de Alicante exhibition hall, Catherine Rodriguez and your own Manresa.
it will work Part of the artistic heritage of Alicante City Council which will place them in different collections of the city. The Ministry of Culture will hold an exhibition in 2023 In Lonja de Alicante, with new works purchased in the previous edition to be added to the exhibits this summer.
Works purchased in 2021 Tobacco Company IIof the Antonio Alcaraz; lightning in a boxof the Aurelio Ayela; Orange sonata, blue movement, of the Miguel Banuls; magic screen, of the Ana Esteve Reig; discourse of uncertaintyof the Daniel G. Andujar; The vitality of Medusa’s hairof the Susana Guerrero; Collection of silences I, of the Aurelia Masanet; The endless language of the grid, The Poetics of Contradiction, the Archeology of Metaphor, and the Infinite Displacement of the Object -all in the series deconstruction on paperof louis shepherd; pharaoh, of the orgy. Y Children’s Corner, of the Jesus Zuazo.
Antonio Manresa, City Councilorr “Promote and gain visibility the work of artists from AlicanteHe is confident he can increase the number of purchases while building a collection that is needed after all this time” and in subsequent budgets.