The third festival led by graphic designer Cristóbal Sánchez opens this Friday a major multidisciplinary exhibition featuring Jesús Romero and Eliana García, the first two artists in the official cycle, and works by Paula Navarro, Andrea González and Surco Valbuena
The Old Prison of Murcia, a new space for art exhibitions and shows in the capital of the Murcia region, offers its second exhibition starting this Friday, after closing with great public success, more than 14,000 people, ‘Heroes and villains ‘, curated by Eva Hernández (Two Gallery). The artistic experimentation festival Mu-Tantes, a real promoter of young and emerging creative talent, is taking over. It is considered the greatest graphic experiment in Murcia, and on this occasion the proposed theme is ‘Natural Selection’. The group of creators and artists led by graphic designer Cristóbal Sánchez proposes to “develop more deeply into that inexplicable impulse that leads us to create change, which transforms a single-celled organism into a human being and a small thought into a revolution that is impossible to stop.” is.”
Cristóbal Sánchez says that for this third edition there is a geographical opening, as it will be international (open to artists from France and Iceland), but also multidisciplinary, with graphic design, visual and sound art, photography, illustration, Motion graphics and 3D , visual art, music, performance and fashion. According to Sánchez, Mu-Tantes is already a reference in the creative sector of the Murcia region.
This Friday (October 21) is the opening of the multidisciplinary exhibition ‘Natural Selection’ in the Cárcel Vieja, featuring the first two artists from the official cycle, selected by creatives from all graphic fields, as well as three other artists from the unofficial cycle ‘OFF ‘, which completes the proposal. Jesús Romero presents ‘Decode’, «an inspiring paranoid project that questions our routine and way of perceiving reality». Romero exposes the contagion between two worlds, the virtual and the physical, turning words like ‘off’ and ‘lag’ into concrete emotions. The second artist in the cycle is the interior designer Eliana García, who invites us with ‘The beauty and essence of things lies in their perishable nature’ to ‘discover a series of light proposals, peripheral thoughts and minimal gestures that try to wander on the obvious, return to what is assumed and recognize life as a boundary of the everyday».
Mu-tantes has wanted to save works of enormous value that conform to the philosophy of the festival and you can also see works such as ‘Modo’, by Paula Navarro, “visual x-ray of a transformation based on a change of vision: one that changes our way changes to see what we create, freeing ourselves from the thoughts that encourage us to give up»; ‘Astrolabio’, a visual treatise on the exploration of the self, by Andrea González from Albacete, “where the skin of the creator becomes a complete map, full of hills, villages and lakes”. And ‘Guerrilla’, ‘the transformation of the diorama into a refuge, the creation of a safe space, of a matrix to rest in which Surco Valbuena uses the face as basis for study’.
Each of the artists is guided during the process (from presentation and approach to execution) by a teacher from the graphic and visual arts. For example, the artists Paula Navarro and Andrea González have José Lorente and Diego Lobenal as teachers and Lola Baños and Matilde Tomás as support; Surco Valbuena is accompanied by David Disparos and supported by Tobál Sánchez; Eliana García has Tobál Sánchez as tutor and Matilde Tomás as support, and Jesús Romero gets the advice of David Disparos and the support of Derek Van Den Bulcke.
According to Cristóbal Sánchez, this show is much more than a sum of exhibitions, and in this third edition it has a stage, an atmosphere, a sensation that unites and diversifies. “And if it’s paradoxical to turn an old prison into a place of creation, why not turn it into a place where life grows in addition to ideas? Created by CartonLab and DelAmorYlaBelleza, the courtyard of the Cárcel Vieja is filled with the most extraordinary shrubs and trees imaginable. It’s another good reason to visit the exhibitions.”
As this third festival consists of three exhibition cycles, the proposals of Curro Rodríguez, Ismael Cerezo and Brando Niebla will be inaugurated on November 17. And on December 9, the projects of R. Batanero, D. TM/F. Tejero and Equipo-SN can be announced. The closing is on December 28 with Brando Niebla, Curro Rodríguez, David TM & Javier Tejero, Dj Toubab, Eliana García, Ismael Cerezo, Jesús Romero and Rocío Batanero.
The Councilor for Culture of Murcia, Pedro García Rex, invites you to revisit the Cárcel Vieja, which over the next two months will focus its attention on the greatness of Mu-tantes, a project that houses cultural works by Murcians with concern are created and excited to generate value propositions for our city. A time to project the best avant-garde art from Murcia». In this way, emphasizes García Rex, the Municipal Council of Murcia continues the line set out by the Ministry of Culture to disseminate innovative projects integrated into the new European strategy and also serve to enhance the cultural and tourist offer of Murcia stimulate.
Source: La Verdad
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