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Art in the street '38 snapshots show in the Plaza Heroes de Cavite in Cartagena landscapes, animals and people who have been able to escape the influence of the modern world |
Thirty-eight snapshots, by Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, show in 'Genesis.
Art on the street 'the virgin landscapes of the planet, as a warning of everything we run the risk of losing.
The exhibition can be visited from November 13 to December 9 at Plaza Heroes de Cavite.
The mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón;
the commercial director of CaixaBank in the Region of Murcia, Gerardo Cuartero;
and the representative of the work of Sebastião Salgado in Spain, Miguel González;
have opened this Tuesday, November 13, the exhibition 'Genesis.
Art in the street ', in the presence of the Councilor for Culture, councilors of the Municipal Government, and the president of the Port Authority, among other authorities.
The exhibition consists of thirty-eight black and white photographs of landscapes, animals and people who have been able to escape the influence of the modern world.
Precisely, the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, has underlined this aspect of the exhibition, "Genesis puts the focus on the natural world and invites us to question ourselves about the current human lifestyle, and something very important too, the impact on the natural resources of the planet ".
Genesis is a mosaic where nature expresses itself in all its greatness.
After almost three decades of reflection on the dramas and tragedies of humanity, the renowned Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado started this project in 2004, focused on the nature of our planet, concluding it in 2012. «A visual ode to the majesty and fragility of the earth;
a warning of everything we run the risk of losing », in the words of the photographer himself.
Salgado made a total of 32 trips to carry out this tour of the virgin world, with stops in Antarctica, Madagascar, Botswana, the Kafue National Park in Zambia, the Colorado Plateau in the United States, Alaska, the archipelago of the Galápagos in Ecuador, Siberia and the Amazon jungle, among others.
Making snapshots of polar regions, forests and tropical savannahs, scorching deserts, mountains dominated by glaciers and solitary islands.
This exhibition by Sebastião Salgado is part of the Art in the Street program, through which the Obra Social 'la Caixa' wants to bring art closer to people outside the usual framework of museums and exhibition halls.
With this program, the Caixa aims to turn Cartagena into an open-air museum and bring the work of renowned artists closer to the international scene.
The program Art in the street began its journey in 2006, and since then has brought closer to the public the creations of contemporary artists such as Manolo Valdés or Igor Mitoraj, as well as references of modernity such as Auguste Rodin or Henry Moore.
The exhibitions fulfill a social function: they are a knowledge and integration tool available to everyone, which represents the ultimate objective of the Obra Social 'la Caixa' at the cultural level.
Now, the entity together with the City of Cartagena, show the exceptional work of the Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado.
It is his third long-term project on global issues, after his previous work Trabajadores y Exodos.
If in these two projects he portrayed the human condition and evidenced the inequalities of the current world through a personal, deep, poetic and formal high quality formal language, in Genesis he focuses on the natural world.
SEBASTIÃO SALGADO
Born in 1944 in Aimorés, Minas Gerais (Brazil), Salgado studied Economics, but since he was 29 years old, he has been completely dedicated to photography.
After working for the agencies Sygma and Gamma, in 1979 he joined Magnum Photos, where he stayed until 1994, year in which he created, together with Lélia Wanick Salgado, Amazonas Images, an agency dedicated exclusively to his work.
In 2001, he was appointed special ambassador of UNICEF, and in 1998 he received the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts.
At the end of 1990, after several decades of work around the world photographing the great demographic and cultural transformations of our time, Sebastião Salgado returned to his hometown, a cattle ranch in the Doce river valley, in the state of Minas Gerais, in Brazil.
The previously fertile lands, surrounded by tropical vegetation, with an exuberant diversity of plant and animal species, had been victims of a process of deforestation and erosion.
Nature seemed exhausted.
His wife, Lélia Wanick Salgado, had the idea of ​​replanting a forest with the same native species, recreating the ecosystem that Salgado had known as a child.
Little by little, the animals returned, until they achieved a complete rebirth, and now the farm is a protected area.
THE EXHIBITION
Genesis is structured in five sections, each of them representing an extensive region with several ecosystems and human groups:
'The confines of the south': South Georgia, the Falklands, the Valdés peninsula and the Sandwich Islands.
'Sanctuaries': the Galapagos Islands, Indonesia, and the ecosystems of Madagascar.
'Africa': from the Okavango delta in Botswana and the Virunga park on the triple border between the Congo, Rwanda and Uganda, to the desert of Algeria.
'Northern lands': landscapes of Alaska and the Colorado Plateau in the United States, the Kluane National Park on Baffin Island (Canada) and the northern regions of Russia, northern Siberia and the Kamchatka Peninsula.
'The Amazon and the Pantanal': the confluence of the Negro and Solimões rivers in Manaus, the national parks of Canaima (Venezuela) and Xingu (Brazil), and the Pantanal, the largest wetland in the world, straddling Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay. From November 13 to December 9, 2018.
'Genesis.
Art on the street 'is installed in the Plaza Heroes de Cavite.
Guided tours can be made to the general public, by appointment: Monday to Friday, at 6:00 p.m.
And on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, at 1:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. It can also be visited by schoolchildren, by appointment at the telephone number: 900 80 11 37. They will be from Monday to Friday at 10:00 a.m. 11.00 and 12.00.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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