IMAGES: Sergio Betancort
The headquarters of the César Manrique Foundation (FCM) hosted on Tuesday night the premiere of "Taro. The echo of Manrique", a documentary film by director Miguel G. Morales. The Foundation had to enable two rooms for its projection, as hundreds of people attended. The event coincided with the twentieth anniversary of the Lanzarote artist's death.
Morales pointed out after the screening that he hopes that through the film "future generations can have that civil awareness that is the great work of César Manrique." He assured that César "is a mirror and a speaker, a mirror because it is an example to look at and a speaker because he never kept quiet."
The film illustrates the career of César Manrique through an intense search for archive images of the artist and testimonies from his closest collaborators, as well as those responsible for the FCM and the naturalist Joaquín Araujo. It also moves to Germany where testimonies are collected from a journalist and the architect Frei Otto, who highlights Manrique's influence on contemporary architecture.
The film approaches César Manrique, underlining his environmental and territorial activism, his fight against speculation and his passion for the nature of Lanzarote. Dozens of statements by the artist are collected in which he explains his civil work and his ideology against the speculation of the territory.
In addition to the film's director, César Manrique's brothers, several of the collaborators who appear in the documentary and authorities such as the Minister of Social Welfare of the Canary Islands Government, Inés Rojas, the mayor of Arrecife, Manuel Fajardo, or the mayor of Haría, José Torres Stinga, among others, attended the screening at the FCM headquarters.
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