La Casa Amarilla opened its doors this Friday. It has done so as an exhibition space with the temporary exhibition "Lanzarote through glass. Jacinto Alonso and photography in Lanzarote at the beginning of the 20th century", by the historical photographer Jacinto Alonso Martín. The building is managed by the Art, Culture and Tourism Centers of the island and the Data Center of the Cabildo of Lanzarote.
What was the Island Council of Lanzarote between 1930 and 1997 will now have a tourist information point, shop and ticket sales for CACT events. The Data Center of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, for its part, is in charge of providing La Casa Amarilla with exhibition content.
"La Casa Amarilla emerges as a physical space to exhibit and capture the work that the Data Center has been doing for 20 years," they say from the Centers. Until 2007, its activity focused on the "investigation of the island's socio-economic situation through studies, surveys and analysis of indicators, but with the launch of the online documentation service of the Digital Memory of Lanzarote, its work acquired an even greater historical dimension", they add.
Rescues a "Lanzarote author almost unpublished"
Now, this new exhibition space will be open from Monday to Friday, from 09.00 to 13.00 and from 17.00 to 20.00, and on Saturdays, from 09.00 to 14.00. The price of tickets is 2 euros for tourists (one euro for children), while access for residents will be free for the next two months.
"In addition to putting into cultural and tourist use a building of great historical relevance (the first headquarters of the Cabildo built in the twenties of the last century), this intervention has the value of rescuing an almost unpublished Lanzarote author: Jacinto Alonso Martín. However, this is a finding of enormous value both for the artistic heritage, due to the quality of its images and its pioneering nature, and for the historical and ethnographic heritage of the island, due to the documentary value of a collection that perfectly portrays social classes, customs, spaces, clothing, economic uses or well-known figures of the island's population", the Centers add in their statement. They point out that this occurs "in a temporal context in which local photographic funds are scarce" and that, "therefore, the curators of the exhibition, Miguel Ángel Martín and Mario Ferrer, consider that the Jacinto Alonso collection is one of the most important rediscoveries of the last decades".