The exhibition ‘Insularia’ can be visited permanently from 2019
The exhibition ‘Insularia’ collected in the facilities of the Cabildo de Lanzarote can be visited permanently from the year 2019. In its origin, the collection exhibited on the walls of the building was to be visited until the end of 2018, but the success of the same and the need to continue showing works of art that are the heritage of all have turned this exhibition into another cultural attraction in Lanzarote.
The exhibition
This exhibition project, curated by Estefanía Camejo, has as a priority objective to try to make visible and value a part of the artistic collections of the MIAC Collection that is located in the central building of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and that could not usually be contemplated by the citizens .
It is a strategic action that seeks to bring closer and strengthen the cultural and intangible ties that unite us to forms of artistic expression made by César Manrique, Manolo Millares, Martín Chirino, Pedro González, José Luis Fajardo, Jesus Soto, Ildefonso Aguilar, Mario Delgado , Santiago Alemán, Paco Fuentes, Carlos Matallana, Pedro Tayó, Juan Gopar, Andrés There, Rufina Santana, Carlos A. Schwartz, Carmela García and Rubén Acosta, around the backbone of the landscape as an artistic condition.
Why Insularia?
The term chosen to give title to this exhibition, Insularia, summarizes the allusions to the insular landscape that occurs in a large part of the works selected and exhibited on this occasion. On the other hand, the subtitle 60 years of art in the Cabildo house, highlights the chronology of the oldest work exhibited and corresponds to the watercolor “Teguise” by Manolo Millares, dating from 1950.
As for the symbol chosen to configure the image of this exhibition, it is a recreation of the skylight that covers the wing of the building in which this exhibition is exposed, through which the light penetrates the building and acts in this sense as metaphor of the role played by art and culture in a developed and advanced society like our contemporary Canarian society.
For more information you can download the dossier of the exhibition here.
