The Teguise City Council will have the collaboration of the Art Schools, both from Gran Canaria and Lanzarote, to carry out the landscape integration of the 'skeletons' of Costa Teguise. The City Council is committed to the creation of a "workshop of creators" that "are capable of turning the walls and columns of the skeletons" of Costa Teguise "into an open-air art gallery with infinite possibilities."
After having proposed to the owners of the unfinished buildings that an intervention be carried out to integrate these structures into the landscape, the City Council has invited a group of students from the School of Art and Higher Design of Gran Canaria to "visit and learn firsthand" about these infrastructures.
They consider that, despite the "state of degraded environments", it is possible to "act" on them "creatively for their readjustment". "We are committed to the environmental restoration of the plots, which over the years have become landfills and dumps, with a great negative impact on the landscape, and we do so trusting in the power of art to turn around a reality that we do not like and that for now we cannot change", said the mayor of Teguise, Oswaldo Betancort, during a visit to the plots where these unfinished urban infrastructures are located.
"Contribute to the enrichment of social sensitivity"
From the Consistory they have pointed out that they opt to have the proposals of the students of these schools because of "the important tradition in the teaching of Plastic Arts and Design that they have, and because with their teaching activity they have contributed to the training of numerous professionals, as well as to the development of an environment favorable to artistic activities and the enrichment of social sensitivity and cultural identity".
"If instead of skeletons of blocks, rubble and garbage, we can create a project of life and landscape wealth, we will have taken a further step in the recovery and improvement of these urban environments, resolving an entrenched situation whose urban solution is complex and alien to the will of the City Council and the owners", added Betancort.
From the School of Art and Higher Design Gran Canaria, the Teguise City Council points out that it "contributes with its contributions, its concerns, its objectives, its initiatives and its creativity to the cultural life of the population".
Regarding the Pancho Lasso School of Art, the City Council underlines its "more than 100 years of history" and that it "enjoys extraordinary conditions for the teaching of artistic subjects".
