Starting next May, Talavera will have a private art gallery managed by Gabriel Sosa where this artist will develop his professional work and teach painting classes for all levels.
Gabriel Sosa has been combining his role as a painter with education for twelve years and his intention was to unify all his artistic activity in this ‘Art Studio’, located at Avenida de Extremadura, 22, where he will have his personal studio, exhibitions as a gallery and in who will also teach painting classes.
It will thus have three different spaces where Sosa will cover all these artistic facets. This graduate in Fine Arts who has a master’s degree in digital design wants to focus this study especially on contemporary art, “on young, emerging people who are just starting out and give them a boost.” As Sosa has confirmed, there are many artists in this context in the city and with this project he seeks to give them that opportunity.
Talavera adds a private art gallery to its cultural offering – Photo: LTThe inauguration of this new cultural space will be on May 4 and for its launch an exhibition of painting, ceramics and photography will premiere with works by artists such as Aitor Saraiba, Mercedes Bellido, Pablo Alfaro, Valeria Cassina, Roberto Infantes, Carolina G. Molina, Juan S. Borox, Laura Nava, Ricardo Fernández and Paula Pupo. Some of them are from Talavera and others from different parts of the region, and their work can be seen until June 21 in this Talavera gallery.
“I think that Talavera was missing that gallery, that private part in which to also accommodate this type of artists” who are not yet recognized by the public but who “are just starting out and can have a platform to show their work in Talavera.” in a professional manner.
Based on his experience, Sosa has recognized that the beginnings are not easy and that, in his case, he has “fought a lot” to be able to make his work known. As he has pointed out, it is “very difficult” for those who are starting to reach this goal and consolidate a project like the one that will now see the light of day with this study. An initiative that, as he has indicated, has been in process for more than a decade and that has now materialized at a time in which he considers that he is “professionally prepared” both as an educator and as an artist and knows the art world with greater depth.
“I think the time has come to take the leap and what better place than in my city, I think Talavera needs that type of things, especially to enrich the cultural fabric,” he said. Although “at the public level it has been moving quite a bit for years” with the help of entities such as “the OAL of Culture and the School of Art”, it also “lacks that private side.”
Consume art. “I was very struck by the fact that in a city of more than 80,000 inhabitants there was no art gallery,” he explained, adding that although he may respond to the fact that Talaverans are not “accustomed to consuming art” or “that the city “You don’t need it”, it is also true “that if it is not offered to them, how are they going to consume it, if they really do not have the option.”
Talavera did have the Cerdán Gallery until some time ago, although it is no longer in operation due to retirement, and although it has an academy, “there is none as such.” Sosa’s will be the only one, at least for the moment, and there artists will be able to exhibit and sell their work.
The plan is to renew the exhibition every month and a half, with a view to holding a total of six throughout the year, with “very fresh, very new, contemporary things, things that are not usually seen because that is what I think is Talavera is missing.
In the case of classes, there will be groups for children and adults, for all levels and where all techniques will be addressed, as well as in a “non-academic way, like in other academies where everyone learns the same thing.” It will be, he explained, “everything more personalized, following his artistic interests” and with the help of Sosa himself, who will teach the classes individually and with small groups of a maximum of twelve people each.
All Sosa students will also have the possibility of constantly seeing the work of other artists, learning new techniques and styles without having to leave their classes.
