The exhibition hall of the Charco de San Ginés in Arrecife hosts, from this Tuesday, March 15, until the 31st of the same month, the collective exhibition "Salt Wet", where the cultural collective Viera y Clavijo, made up of a group of painters who have joined under the motto of this illustrious Canary Islander, takes us back to our origins, "transporting their most intimate images on their canvases". In this way, Asunción Fuentes, Francisco Hernández and Remy de Quintana present an exhibition that starts from the origin of the Canary Islands to gradually enter the peculiar air of each of the islands and the capital of the Island, in particular.
As Remy de Quintana explains, "The Canary Islands, a cosmopolitan archipelago in the middle of the blue Atlantic, is an important source of inspiration for artists." "Therefore, and under the motto of Viera y Clavijo," he adds, "a group of painters, like navigators, cross the Atlantic, to transport their most intimate images on their canvases, where light, color and a little of their being, bring to the island of the volcanoes their illusions and a beautiful projection of their art."
De Quintana continues pointing out that the exhibition investigates the origin of the Canary Islands, which, in his opinion, "is also a poem", as well as "the unfathomable origin of its air, which is a mystery, since when the islands emerged from the sea, the air was already there and each island has its particular air". "A mixture of silence and salt and a saline air that can be felt in the Canary Islands and that has shaped its landscapes and has been a source of inspiration for artists," explains the artist.
The painter also recalls, in the presentation she makes of the collective exhibition "Salt Wet", that Humbolt himself, with his scientific wisdom, said more than 200 years ago "that the island airs were different, like a great arm that came from the sea". "And from Nivaria to Arrecife, a city that emerges from the sea. From this sea and this saltpeter, its men found a way to subsist and filled the island with salty smiles, for the conservation of their sustenance," he concludes.
Importance of salt
For his part, the Councilor for Culture of the Arrecife City Council, Lorenzo Lemaur, has invited the public to attend this collective exhibition, in which "although each artist has singularities of his work, they all agree on the importance of salt on an island like Lanzarote, as well as the sea and its influence."
As Lemaur points out, this pictorial exhibition is a journey through the immensity of the Canary Islands, through the observing capacity of these three artists and their talent to capture natural moments, casual situations or the landscape beauty to which the air contributes. In short, it is an exhibition that travels through the Canary Islands from its origins to the present day.
The exhibition will remain open in the Charco de San Ginés exhibition hall until March 31, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., from Monday to Friday and from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Saturdays.
