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The City of White, with the Department of Visual Arts at the Ministry of Education and Culture, organized for the tenth consecutive year the publication of the International Workshops Landscape.
These courses are the oldest of its kind organized in the region of Murcia, and have located and to White as a reference point in the visual and plastic arts in the community of Murcia.
During the ten years that White has been hosting the workshops, said the municipality has a privileged place for its landscape and its people.
As the mayor of White, Rafael Laorden, "one of the main factors of identity and attractiveness of the town of Blanca is its spectacular scenery.
The context, therefore, is an ideal scenario for the development of initiatives to deepen reflection linking landscape and contemporary art. "
Laorden stressed the importance to the local governing have managed to become a meeting place for experimentation of contemporary art and that "the last week of September is now a time of great cultural attraction for the entire region."
International Landscape Workshops are intended as a place for experimentation on contemporary art theory.
During the conference students free exercises carried out in closed or open, allowing them to work on a broad concept of landscape without excluding any discipline or language.
Each year we show two parallel and independent workshops often pose different artistic languages, both formally and conceptually, which will lead, in moments of encounter, a confluence of heterogeneous approaches very productive for attendees.
Thus, complementary, each year the shops are visited by a guest speaker that explores the notion of landscape from different perspectives.
Teachers and lecturers are prominent national figures in the field of artistic creation and critical theory and contemporary thought.
In these nine years, artists who have participated in the workshops have been Pedro Cano, Joan Hernández Pijuan, Anton Lamazares, Alfonso Albacete, Mitsuo Miura, Manolo Moan, Pilar Albarracín, Antón Patiño, Mireya Maso Almarcegui Lara, Antonio Martínez Mengual, Eva Lootz, Bledsoe and Rosa, Nacho Criado, Javier Perez, Santiago Serrano, Joan Fontcuberta, Enrique Marty, and this year, Federico Guzmán and Francesc Torres.
The Cultural Center will host the conference Luesma Teresa, director of the Center for Art and Nature José Beulas Foundation, on "Experiences peripheral.
Art, Nature and Landscape ", the meeting will be held until 28 this month, with the workshops" Painting outdoors "by Federico Guzmán and" History as a landscape.
Topography of Memory "taught by Francesc Torres.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Blanca
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