The two Vox councilors in the Arrecife City Council, Eugenio Hernández Cabrera and Jorge Enrique Barrios Rodríguez, have asked the council to "not stand idly by as their predecessors have done and immediately value the cultural heritage" that the institution currently possesses.
For this reason, as a suggestion and as a contribution from the opposition to the work of the government, they have proposed in a motion that they have registered for debate in the next ordinary plenary session that the corresponding department carry out a "revision of the current inventory" of all the works of art that the City Council has and subsequently organize "exhibitions" so that citizens can get to know them.
Specifically, as stated in the motion presented, the Vox councilors believe it is necessary to "prepare thematic exhibitions" with the different works of art, paintings and sculptures that are owned by the capital corporation, an "important legacy" that must be included in the municipal inventory and that in theory is located in the institution's premises.
The party, after analyzing the matter, has been able to verify that the Arrecife City Council is "owner of more than a hundred works of art" of artistic-cultural heritage that are located in the municipal premises and that it is good for citizens to know. "It is not normal or logical that no one has worried about this cultural heritage all this time and that the people, who after all are its owners, know and enjoy it," he insisted.
As far as we know, waiting for the current Municipal Government to confirm it, Arrecife has a "more than remarkable number of works of art of all kinds, some works created by artists from the municipality such as Cesar Manríquez, Santiago Alemán, Juan Miguel Gopar and others," explained the spokesperson, Eugenio Hernández.
"It seems incredible that to date these works remain forgotten and are not exhibited and promoted. We immediately take care of what comes from outside our land and then some who talk a lot about traditions are not able to value first what local artists have bequeathed to us who have nothing to envy from artists who work outside of Lanzarote," added the councilor.
What the far-right political formation proposes, in short, is that a "cycle of thematic exhibitions with the artistic-cultural material" that the city council has in its own premises be carried out. "Exhibitions that can be held in public places such as the House of Culture, the Youth Center or the Plenary Hall itself."
"We want these exhibitions to be in places that citizens can visit for free, with a wide catalog of the works of art exhibited and with the advice and information of the specialized personnel that this city council has," said Eugenio Hernández, who believes it is also important that "the events are given the widest dissemination, indicating the place, visiting hours and title of the exhibition."
In short, the two Vox councilors have asked that the "negligence and apathy" with which all problems are usually faced in current politics "not also be paid with the enormous cultural heritage that the City Council of the third capital of the Canary Islands has," that the artists who donated their works have the necessary "recognition" from a population that surely "is not even aware of this fact."
