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The Ministry of Education, Culture and Universities and the City of Las Torres de Cotillas organize a new exhibition project 'Routes' in which a dozen works by contemporary artists are displayed, and was presented by the director of the Institute of Cultural and Arts (ICA) Industries, Marta Lopez-Briones, and the Councillor for Culture of the town, Gloria Fernandez.
The exhibition, entitled 'The postindustrial era.
Images of decline in capitalist societies', includes works by José Manuel Ballester, José Ramón Amondarain, María Rodríguez Manzanera and Gamaliel, and can be visited at the Casa de la Cultura de Las Torres de Cotillas until next January 15.
The general director of ICA recalled that the Towers Cotillas is the fifth exhibition Culture inaugurated within the project 'Routes', "with which it aims to make contemporary art accessible to all Murcia, while helping municipalities to complete their cultural ceding works from the collection of ICA for display ".
The ten works selected for 'The postindustrial era' "invite visitors to reflect on this time it is no longer possible faith in the innocent and free of shadows technology;
a similar fascination which showed the historical vanguards by machines, cars or factories. "
The scene after the turn of the century shows, however, gigantism, huge constructions in which the human scale disappears and the handicap of a development model.
Witnesses of an era, these artists are committed to show the reality perceived, facing the kind idea of ​​art as mere entertainment
In this sense, Marta Lopez-Briones recalled that "one of the functions of art, beyond the aesthetic pleasure, is put in the center the important things, realities.
Just that, made visible through art dark areas of development, it is the aim of this exhibition features works by four very different artists but they all longstanding and possessing a work of great quality. "
A dozen works
José Manuel Ballester, one of the most important artists of national scene in recent decades, can be seen in Las Torres de Cotillas representing two very important pieces that, in gray weather and clear technical perfection, the painter shows locations industrial apparently abandoned.
José Ramón Amondarain a beautiful work that, in the manner of a modern tower of Babel, shows the futility of human ambition shown.
It is a tower of ore at whose feet we grow weeds in a huge image of melancholy burden.
María Manzanera runs the metropolis photographing iconic skyscrapers in the early decades of the twentieth century made New York a kind of utopia made.
A time of hope that, through the images in black and white, the overcast and dreary skies turn dark.
Finally, Gamaliel Rodriguez shows through spectacular drawings how objects are separated from the people making huge, unmanageable.
They are ships, weapons ... cold performances in which there are no traces of human touch.
The schedule to visit the exhibition at the House of Culture Cotillas Towers is Monday through Friday from 9:00 to 14:00 hours.
The weeks of the first half of December and the January 5, the room also open from 16:00 to 20:00.
Source: CARM
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