The Royal Provincial Academy of Fine Arts of Cádiz She has been working for some time to open the historic windows of the institution so that the air can flow. Without losing sight of an origin that dates back to the splendid 18th century in Cádiz, the entity aims to adapt in depth and form to the new times so that its permanent commitment to art cannot and should not be forgotten from this primary objective. This premise, among others, responds to the exhibition ‘Parallel Universes’ that can now be visited at the headquarters of the Cajasol Foundation of Cádiz and that, curated by the academic Carmen Bustamanteoffers a significant overview of contemporary art in the province of Cadiz by fourteen authors who touch on different disciplines and techniques.
Under the subtitle ‘Human landscape and artistic realities of Cádiz’, the Academy has managed to bring together in this first edition of an exhibition that wants to have continuity the names and works of Antonio Vela, Bárbara Shunyí, Begoña Lombardía, Fernando Rubio, Julián Delgado, Magdalena Bachiller, Magdalena Murciano, Manuel Caballero, Mario César de las Cuevas, Marisa Bascuñana, Nuria Reina, Paco Mármol, Pepe Cano and Sylvain Marc.
From his hands, from his creative genius, have come the pieces that until July 20 can be seen on the ground floor of the Cajasol Foundation, in the Plaza de San Antonio: engravings, paintings, photographs, sculptures and drawings are distributed diaphanous and cared for in this exhibition room. Each author shows between two and four works, so that the pieces of each artist not only dialogue with each other, since they share paternity (or maternity), but also communicate with those of the other artists, forming an obviously limited panorama. , of contemporary art in the province of Cádiz. Fourteen parallel universes, personal and non-transferable, which are unified in the room without losing their own identity, style and originality. Art expressed through figuration, abstraction, realism or expressionism.
Most of the artists participated last Friday afternoon at the opening of this exhibition. The event was attended by Pablo Juliá, president of the Royal Provincial Academy of Fine Arts; Mar Díez, delegate of the Cajasol Foundation in Cádiz; Maite González, Councilor for Culture of the Cádiz City Council, and Carmen Bustamante, curator of the exhibition.
Highlighted Mar Diezin his intervention, the cultural vocation that the foundation itself is adding in recent times to the congenital social vocation of the entity, with activities like these that want to offer such a current vision of the Cadiz artistic panorama.
Pablo Julia, for his part, referred to the historical heritage of the Academy and, also, to the more contemporary commitment to delve into the world of art to show society this group of “qualified artists.” And the photographer from Cádiz, president of the centenary institution, announced the future projects of an avant-garde exhibition at the ECCO and the call for photography workshops at the Cajasol headquarters itself.
The councilor insisted Maite Gonzalez in the need for “collaboration and coordination” between the different institutions and entities in Cadiz, a way of working that bears fruit like this exhibition of local artists: “There is a lot of talent and we must continue to show it.”
He spoke about the future intention of giving continuity to this collective exhibition Carmen Bustamantein an attempt to complete the list of artists in coming years and to further broaden the artistic vision of this first edition which, as its curator recalled, brings together creators who in some cases have more than 30 years of experience working from “the same idea” and that “they are not carried away by trends, but by their own history.”
