The artist from Lanzarote, Tayó, returns to the CIC El Almacén after twenty-five years

The exhibition "Playing Between the Lines", curated by Lana Corujo and David Machado, can be visited from this Friday, August 19 to November 5.

August 21 2022 (12:17 WEST)
"Tayo" Exhibition

From this Friday, August 19 until November 5, the CIC El Almacén hosts in all its rooms the exhibition "Playing Between the Lines", a retrospective of the renowned painter from Lanzarote, Tayó, who returns to the island after 25 years.

From the Cabildo they point out that this is a project that "investigates the vitalistic vision of the artist's referential and intellectual universe, which emotionally links him to the creationist spirit of the writer Agustín Espinosa, with the organic forms of the avant-garde sculptor Pancho Lasso or with the colorful joy of César Manrique's art".

This exhibition, which has been presented this Friday morning to the media and will be inaugurated at 7:30 p.m., is part of the program of plastic and visual arts carried out by the Culture Area of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, coordinated by the councilor Alberto Aguiar Lasso, with the collaboration of the Lanzarote Foreign Promotion Society.

The exhibition sees the light after several years of conversations and meetings between Lana Corujo and David Machado, curators of this exhibition, with the painter at his home in Uga and through video calls during the pandemic. The result is, according to the Cabildo, "a dialogue focused on the interpretation of the emotions, sensations and perceptions that surround the reality and experiences of the artist in his environment, understood as a creative refuge that gives meaning and defines his artistic discourse and his thought".

The Corporation continues explaining that it is an exhibition project where the playful dimension of his artistic imagination becomes cultural learning and methodological foundation of his creativity, which allows the border crossing through different narrative discourses such as time, nature, life, etc.

In the words of the artist himself, "the process of my work has peasant genetics, farmer rhythm, fisherman patience and nature attitude". "It is a work that is built step by step, forming layers, adding strata. The work appears alone, without effort. It grows like a plant and matures like a fruit. I only take care of it. I caress it as the wind caresses and wears away the lava slope. With the passage of the years the work appears", he said.

For the curator Lana Corujo "Tayó's work is an emotional archive in the form of strokes, colors and clean planes in which the human and natural landscape of Lanzarote is transformed into islands or isolated territories that move away from existential darkness and chaos, inviting us to enter a happy, luminous and vitalistic universe, full of poetic atmospheres and chromatic variations that speak of his daily life in Uga".

For his part, the curator David Machado has stressed that "this exhibition not only seeks to publicize and disseminate the work of Tayó, but also to value his artistic career, understood as a narrative discourse in which tensions, knots, strata or layers accumulate that speak to us of art as a tool for research and thought to dialogue with memory, with the island landscape and with the identity of our environment".

Finally, the Councilor for Culture of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, Alberto Aguiar, has expressed his satisfaction because "Tayó returns to El Almacén after twenty-five years without exhibiting in this emblematic space to which the artist is especially linked since his professional beginnings".

“And he does so with an exhibition project whose work invites us to look at it and understand it as an artistic and anthropological reality through a significant narrative where we find vestiges, feelings, characters, plants, animals, houses and elements of the landscape of Lanzarote full of poetry, color, light, thought and overwhelming vitality. Therefore, I encourage citizens to come and enjoy not only this exhibition but also the activities programmed in a complementary way”, he added.

 

Schedules and parallel activities

The exhibition “Playing between lines” by Tayó can be visited during the usual hours of the CIC El Almacén, that is, from Monday to Friday, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturdays, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Sundays and holidays closed. Admission is free.

Among the parallel activities planned there will be guided tours of the exhibition by the graduate in Fine Arts Damián Rodríguez, will be: Saturday, August 27, at 12 noon; Tuesday, September 6 at 6 p.m.; Saturday, September 24, at 12 noon; Tuesday, October 4, at 6 p.m.; Saturday, October 15, at 12 noon; Tuesday, October 25, at 6 p.m., and Saturday, November 5, at 12 noon.

Access to the guided tours will be free, but with prior reservation and until full capacity. For this, interested people must contact the CIC El Almacén on the phone 928 831 507 and check if there are places.

Likewise, the Cabildo plans that, with the start of the school year, didactic visits with students will resume, which will take place between September 19 and November 4, 2022 and will be carried out by the art historian Arminda Arteta Viotti, in collaboration with the educational centers of the island.

Also, it is planned that on Tuesday, September 13, at 7:30 p.m. and in the Cube room of the CIC El Almacén, there will be a conversation between Tayó, Lana Corujo and David Machado to talk not only about Tayó's work and its meaning, but also about the configuration of this exhibition and its intricacies.

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