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The Ministry of Education, Culture and Universities organizes, in collaboration with the City of Torre Pacheco, the exhibition 'The postindustrial era', a sample that is included in the 'Routes' project, which will be open in the Exhibition Hall of the Municipal Library until next April 30.
The exhibition, which was presented today by the director of the Institute of Cultural Industries and Arts (ICA), Marta Lopez-Briones, and the Councillor for Culture of Torre Pacheco, Antonio Madrid, brings together a total of 13 works of José Manuel Ballester, Antonio Ballester, José Ramón Amondarain, María Rodríguez Manzanera and Gamaliel.
The Director General stressed the importance of Murcia municipalities join the project 'Routes', "an initiative Culture launched in late 2014 and which is approaching contemporary art to all citizens of the region through the transfer to municipalities of works from the collection of ICA that contribute to complete the cultural offer ".
In this case, the 13 works selected for 'Itinerancias: The postindustrial era' "invite visitors to reflect on the technology, its role in society, obsolescence and sometimes contradictory relationship of humans with it," said Lopez Briones.
"All creations show, in one way or another, the dark side of development through the eyes of five very different artists but they all longstanding and possessing a work of great quality," recalled the director general.
Specifically, José Manuel Ballester, "one of the most important artists of national scene in recent decades", you will see in Torre Pacheco two very representative pieces of his work in which the painter shows apparently abandoned industrial sites.
The paintings of Antonio Ballester, meanwhile, correspond to geometric structures reminiscent of barbed wire and evocative spaces and artificial landscapes, while José Ramón Amondarain a work of great melancholy burden reflects an extraction tower abandoned mineral sample and speaking viewers the futility of human ambition.
María Manzanera runs meanwhile the metropolis photographing iconic skyscrapers in the early decades of the twentieth century made New York a kind of utopia made.
And finally, the artist of Puerto Rico Gamaliel Rodriguez shows through drawings in pen ink is mixed with the blood of lamb how objects are separated from us by becoming unmanageable.
The exhibition will run in Torre Pacheco until next April 30 and will be open from Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 13:00 hours, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday also from 16:00 to 19:00 hours .
Source: CARM
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