17 emerging artists from the Spanish Mediterranean] | The exhibition features works by thirteen artists from Murcia, traveling from New York to Cartagena backed by a huge public success |
The Byzantine Wall Hall played host this afternoon and until 16 October, the exhibition "Salt and Oil.
17 emerging artists from the Spanish Mediterranean ', which starts with a collaboration between the city of Cartagena and Fundación Casa Pintada Museum Gabarrón Christopher.
Councillor for Culture, Rosario Montero, with the director of the Foundation, Antonio Parra, presented this morning show, which comes to Cartagena as the first Spanish city, and then make a tour around Murcia and other cities of the Mediterranean.
The exhibition "Salt and Oil" brings together seventeen young artists, thirteen of them Murcia, Cartagena and travels from New York, where he was exposed a year ago with great success.
Among the artists from Murcia, Cartagena can find Eva Poyato and Virginia Bernal.
As explained Parra, the exhibition brings together the best young artists Current Murcia.
Young artists in the exhibition, under 35 years have received the grant for projects in the oil cellar Foundation headquarters, the Casa Pintada.
Some of them have already gone through it with an installation created especially for that space, always with great public success, and that once they made a catalog and a DVD, other artists create their installation in the coming months.
Finally in the sample are also two scholarships from the Painted House stay in New York, who in his first call are Nico Munuera and Miguel Fructuoso, two young artists have already Murcia international name and have been exhibited in major art fairs, as Arco.
These grants and the sample derived from them are almost unique in Spain, and are having a great success, getting requests and projects worldwide.
The exhibition will run until October 16 in the morning from 10.30 to 13.30, and evenings in September, 18 to 20,30, and October 17 to 20.30.
On Mondays, Sundays and public holidays closed.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena