The hermitage of San Antonio de Tías will host next Friday, January 31, at 8:00 p.m., the inauguration of 'The landscape as a cultural product', an exhibition framed in the program of the X Biennial ArteLanzarote Meeting organized by the Centers for Art, Culture and Tourism.
This exhibition compares the respective modes of observation and study of the territory of two multidisciplinary teams, one American and one Canarian, that are in tune with their conception of the landscape as a cultural product.
On the one hand, it offers an overview of the activities, methodology and research on the human footprint on the landscape developed by CLUI (The Center for Land Use Interpretation, California, 1994) on American soil and relates them to the work of Marta Peña and Jaime Gil, agricultural engineers, who carry out ethnobotanical research on the vascular flora of Lanzarote as a Biosphere Reserve, the cultivation techniques in traditional agriculture, the recovery of varieties of ancient crops, the interpretation of the agricultural landscape and the cataloging of the island's ethnoflora, among others.
Alteration of El Jable and transformations of La Geria
As explained by the Centers, 'The landscape as a cultural product' aims to open an international debate, since it offers "an exhaustive project on the alteration of El Jable, together with the observation and denunciation of the transformations suffered by the protected landscape of La Geria and spaces adjacent to it through photographic images, aerial views and different texts", which will be complemented by a guided tour of the landscapes of La Geria and El Jable, free and open to the public.
The exhibition also includes a selection of projects carried out by CLUI, such as 'Subterranean Renovations: The Unique Architectural Spaces of Show Caves', which connect with a matter as idiosyncratic to the island as cuevismo, Hollowed Earth: The Underground World of Business Parks, and visual and textual information on other initiatives of this institution on human footprints in the territory.
Masterclass with Aurora Tang
The program of the exhibition also includes the celebration of a masterclass with Aurora Tang, director of programs at CLUI, which will take place this Tuesday, January 28, at 8:00 p.m., at the International Museum of Contemporary Art - MIAC, Castillo de San José.
