The artist, accompanied by the mayor, today presented to the media image that will accompany the festival in its 21st edition, made from an imaginary instrument he built, and with clear references to the Chilean flag
à ngel Haro, (Valencia, 1958) artist with a dilated experience as a designer and art director, has been responsible for designing the poster for The Sea Music, Special Chile, poster that was presented to the media Friday communication at the Palace Hall of Cartagena.
The Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, has accompanied the artist in the presentation, thanking an artist of his stature, prestige, has agreed to design this year's poster, which does not lack anything.
The poster of the Sea of Music 2015 is a photograph whose main motive is an imaginary instrument fonitraque he called the artist, purpose built by à ngel Haro and bearing inserted the pentagram banner guest country.
As explained Haro, the piece refers to the fusion of tradition and modernity of Chilean music.
The atmosphere surrounding the workpiece;
plant background shadows and the graphic typography bring a taste of Mediterranean nightlife.
The poster is a tribute to the images of the vinyls of Latin music of the 50s.
à ngel Haro joins Miquel Barceló, Joan Fontcuberta, Guillermo Pérez Villalta, Chema Madoz, à "scar Marine, Ángel Mateo Charris, Dora Catarineu, Javier de Juan, Alberto García Alix, The Gardener, Ouka Lele, Ceesepe, Javier Mariscal Antonio de Felipe and Carmen Calv or in previous years were responsible for creating the festival poster.
The director of the Sea of Music, Francisco Martin, announced during the presentation that next week will be a preview of this year, and the official launch will take place on April 29 in Madrid.
With regard to the fact that the festival has reduced the number of days of celebration, 23-9, Martin believes it was a initiative that was adopted in times of crisis, because it meant less spending, but now you can prove that you have been a success, since no programming means less but more concentrated, which facilitates the arrival of more public outside.
After the presentation, and questions from the media, the mayor has hinted, among other things, the sectoral meeting of Culture to be held on Monday April 13th at the Roman Theatre of Cartagena, which bring the city to the Minister Education and Culture, José Ignacio Wert, and Directors of Culture of the Autonomous Communities.
HARO AND HIS WORK
à ngel Haro born in Valencia (Spain) in 1958. He spent his childhood in Paris but his family moved later in Murcia, where young will continue studying architecture.
Today it is a multifaceted artist, who has twenty years an international career, not just a painter and sculptor but also dedicated to the staging particularly theater.
Haro is also artistic director of theater, filmmaker and stage.
His first solo exhibition took place in Murcia in 1979. His painted and sculpted work is exhibited regularly in solo exhibitions in Spain and abroad (Chicago, New York, Paris, South Africa, Dominican Republic, Lithuania, Belgium .. .).
The prestigious Marlborough Gallery in Madrid presented him in 2001, also the Museum of Riga and the Italian Institute of Modern Art in Monza.
His works also participate in major international exhibitions of contemporary art, ARCO Madrid, Art Miami, Milan MIART ... Last year intervened building in Madrid La Tabacalera Truce, a multidisciplinary facility that made a symbolic journey through a series of large-painting pieces, sculpture, audio and audiovisual space.
à ngel Haro develops in parallel with painting, graphic work.
In this area the artist was awarded the First Prize of Engraving Museum of Contemporary Spanish Prints Marbella (Málaga, 1994).
The artist takes pictures according to various creative techniques: silkscreen, etching, fotolitograbado, individual prints or portfolio.
He has published several books of bibliophile and executed numerous works of graphic art for both private and public commissions.
He has made numerous works in mixed media on paper and collages, drawings in charcoal and ink.
Figurative in a first time, oriented in recent years towards abstraction, the artist produces a work with all staff, mysterious, poetic evidence.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena