Portal de Cartagena
www.portaldecartagena.com
The fourteenth edition of the festival La Mar de Musicas Cartagena, organized by the Department of Culture of the City of Cartagena, and has the lineup.
The photographer Joan Fontcuberta (Barcelona, 1955) has been commissioned to create the image of this year, based on the violin of Ingres, Man Ray, the artist who revolutionized twentieth century photography.
The image used by Fontcuberta for the poster has been reconstructed by a freeware program for online photo mosaic on-line to Google.
The end result consists of 1,600 images available on the Internet, located as the search criteria using the programming of The Mar de Músicas 2008.
The mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, this morning the new image of the festival, which this year is devoted to France and the neighboring country music.
Next to it have been the Councillor for Culture, Rosario Montero, and festival director, Francisco Martín.
Joan Fontcuberta is an artist, teacher, essayist, critic and promoter of specialized art photography.
Teacher in various schools as Harvard University in the U.S..
Frequent contributor to journals in art and image, is chief editor of Photovision.
He has published several books related to photography.
Promoter and founder of various photography festivals, artistic director in 1996 was the International Festival of Photography in Arles.
David Octavious Hill Award by the Akademie GDL Fotografische Germany in 1988, Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Ministry of Culture in France in 1994 and National Photography Prize, awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Spain in 1998.
His extensive photographic work is characterized by the use of IT tools in their treatment and presentation in an interactive with the audience.
His work has been acquired by public collections as the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; the IVAM in Valencia , MACBA Barcelona or the Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires.
Fontcuberta thus joins the list of Spanish artists who have created the image of La Mar de Músicas, as Alberto Garcia Alix, Javier de Juan, Angel Mateo Charris, Dora Catarineu, Miquel Barceló, Guillermo Pérez Villalta, Chema Madoz or Oscar Marine.
PRESENTATION OF THE FESTIVAL
In addition, next Tuesday, April 29, La Mar de Músicas present the programming of its fourteenth edition in the Sala Manuel de Falla of SGAE in Madrid.
As every year, at night, and at Joy Eslava nightclub, the party will be presented with the performance of the French group Le peuple de l'herbe.
This year's concert presentation of La Mar de Músicas 2008 will be broadcast throughout Spain by Radio 3, who worked the festival since its inception.
The festival La Mar de Músicas has a municipal budget of 1,150,000 euros.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
Privacy policy
- Legal notice
- Cookies