The César Manrique Foundation (FCM) will host the round table entitled 'The César We Knew' next Tuesday, November 5, at 8:00 p.m., in the José Saramago room of La Plazuela (Arrecife). Carlos Matallana, Mario Alberto Perdomo, Gueli Robayna, and Fernando Ruiz will participate.
The meeting, which is part of the program for the centenary of the artist's birth that the institution that bears his name will celebrate until April 24, 2020, will be moderated by journalists Techy Acosta and Salvador Hernández.
The speakers participating in this round table will focus on sharing, from their personal perspectives, some of their life experiences alongside César Manrique. Thus, according to the FCM, they will approach the most human and close side of the artist, through anecdotes and experiences.
'The César We Knew' is the second round table held within the 'César Manrique. Shared Memory' cycle, which aims to address, from complementary perspectives, facets related to the artistic production, commitment, or personality of the artist.
Speakers and moderators
Carlos Matallana is César Manrique's nephew, a plastic artist, and a member of the board of trustees of the César Manrique Foundation since the institution's inception. He has held more than 20 individual exhibitions and fifty collective exhibitions. His works are part of museum collections such as the Atlantic Center of Modern Art (CAAM), the International Museum of Contemporary Art of the Castillo de San José (MIAC), the Tenerife Arts Space (TEA), or the FCM.
As for Mario Alberto Perdomo, he is an economist and journalist. He is also a member of the board of trustees of the César Manrique Foundation since its inception and currently works in the Biosfera Media group, which manages the Biosfera Televisión and biosferadigital.com headers. Co-founder of the El Guincho Ecologist Association, he was director of the Department of Culture of the Cabildo de Lanzarote.
Guely Robayna is a Philosophy teacher in secondary education. She was a coordinator in the Department of Culture of the Cabildo de Lanzarote and César Manrique's secretary until his death, later joining the FCM team until 1999.
For his part, Fernando Ruiz is the chief curator of the FCM museum. He was part of the promoting group of the El Guincho Ecologist Association and collaborated with César Manrique from the mid-eighties until 1992. He was an inspector of the Historical Heritage of Lanzarote and worked as a technician in the Department of Culture of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, where he designed and directed its Publications Service. He was also responsible for the acquisition of works by Pancho Lasso for the International Museum of Contemporary Art (MIAC).
As for Techy Acosta, she is a journalist specializing in radio and television, director of Radio Lanzarote, and editor of lavozdelanzarote.com. Currently, she presents the program 'Buenos días Lanzarote', the audience leader on the island, and the magazine 'Más de Uno Lanzarote' on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero. In addition, she is a regular contributor to television programs of political debate on TV Canaria and on 1 of RTVE.
Finally, Salvador Hernández is the owner and director of the Biosfera Media Group, which includes Biosfera TV and the bioferadigital.com newspaper. In addition to being a founding member of the Lanzarote and Fuerteventura Press Association, an entity that he chaired for several terms, he has been a correspondent in Lanzarote for the EFE Agency for 27 years.
