Gathered around the taste for plastic and visual arts and the interest in the exhibition Art. Yaiza. The collection, culture lovers participated last Friday in the Casona de Femés in the reflections left by the talk held by the cultural managers Estefanía Camejo, Pepe Betancort and David Machado on the emergence of spaces dedicated to the exhibition of artistic works in Lanzarote from the sixties, seventies and eighties, that outbreak became a cultural movement, until we find ourselves in today's reality, where buildings with ideal conditions for exhibiting are scarce.
"Since the eighties there have been no exhibition centers, no large, new and accessible spaces where large-format paintings can be hung or artistic installations of considerable size can be placed," the speakers agreed. Pepe Betancort, with the frankness that characterizes him, said: "enough of buying old buildings and investing in their rehabilitation, we have to bet on new buildings that allow the exhibition of works by artists of trajectory and many young people who are emerging in art." To be even more graphic, Estefanía Camejo, added: "buildings where drilling a wall to hang a work is not a problem."
The colloquium also featured an exceptional protagonist sitting among the public, Pedro Tayó, one of the eighteen contemporary creators who precisely give life to the artistic exhibition that the public can enjoy until February 28 at the Casona de Femés.
The artist from Uga, precursor of the Casa de la Cultura Benito Pérez Armas as an exhibition hall, also raised as a topic for reflection the loss in Lanzarote of art galleries until practically their disappearance, contrasting with the abundance existing in other places, a point that further fuels the debate on the lack of public and private spaces to exhibit and sell. "Maybe we should look for some kind of public incentive for galleries, especially for young talented people to publicize their work."
The conversation was interesting and gave for much, to review the unbearable bureaucratic procedures of the public administration that each day make it more difficult to materialize cultural projects, the lack of political and citizen awareness about the value of art and the professional and creative work of all the agents that come to participate in the assembly of an exhibition or any initiative or customs barriers to transfer works of art outside the Canary Islands.
And speaking in terms of pure market, the colloquium also questioned the lack of ability of the Island to monetize, from the artistic point of view, the millions of tourists who pass through Lanzarote every day, "we have not been able to sell our art and having a number of recognized artists that any city would envy."
The day on Friday dedicated to critical thinking aloud and the music of letters and charming sounds ended with a concert in the inner courtyard of the Casona de Femés starring two virtuosos of the strings, Adrián Niz (guitar) and José Vicente Pérez (timple), and the jet of voice of Pedro Manuel Afonso, an performance proposed by the City Council of Yaiza that was subsidized by the Culture Area of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, the two institutions committed to the assembly of 'Art. Yaiza. The collection'.
The Councilor for Culture of Yaiza, César Rijo, encourages the people of Lanzarote to visit this exhibition that still has a last guided tour by Estefanía Camejo next Tuesday, February 18 at 17:00 hours. Admission is free. All the works exhibited are municipal property.