La Casa Amarilla houses the most environmental part of the exhibition 100 years: Lanzarote and César
The celebrations of the centenary of the universal César Manrique continue to enrich the cultural offer of Lanzarote to recognize and value the last hundred years of the island’s evolution. From this 17th of April you can visit in La Casa Amarilla, located in Arrecife, the second exhibition in the series 100 years: Lanzarote and César, curated by Juan Gopar and Alejandro Krawietz.
The first part of this exhibition set, inaugurated last March at CIC El Almacén, focuses on the references that César Manrique himself had at the time of conforming his idea of an island. Manuel Padorno, Agustín Espinosa or Rafael Arozarena, among others. Juan Gopar affirms that in it we find the mixture to “César and tradition, to César and culture”.
The exhibition opened today has a more environmentalist look. Gopar explained that it “takes a leap into the present to emphasize those things that go unnoticed in our daily lives, but are fundamental”. One of the exhibits is called Infraordinario and this title was used by Juan Gopar to symbolize one of the objectives of the exhibition: “There are people who every day do a job so that life goes on and in this exhibition we find the work of many people who are essential to understand the Lanzarote of today “.
For his part, Alejandro Krawietz connected the two parts of 100 years: Lanzarote and César through the verse of Padorno “Beautiful workshop of mine: my island”. In the exhibition of La Casa Amarilla the idea that Lanzarote is a workshop to work on is shown. Krawietz believes that “Lanzarote is a research space, it is a laboratory and what we have wanted is to bring people from La Casa Amarilla who are working on the island and at the same time building Lanzarote with their daily work”.
The exhibition also reveals a secret. The image chosen to illustrate the exhibition’s posters corresponds to a Wallonian seaweed. Alejandro Krawietz explained why. “This algae that inhabits the Charco de San Ginés performs a work of filtering the water; and this filtering depends on the ability of the Wallonia to work as a team, it is the only way for the waters to improve “.
The wallonia is the metaphor of the objective of the exhibition that, therefore, reflects the hard environmental work that is being carried out in parallel in Lanzarote at present through a new form of teamwork.
The exhibition, which will remain until October at La Casa Amarilla, located in Arrecife, can be visited from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. And on Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
