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Culture continues to promote young artists from the region with an exhibition of Pedro Guirao (07/10/2009)

The Director General for Cultural Promotion, Antonio Martínez, today unveiled the painting exhibition 'Tracks', the artist Pedro Guirao Murcia will be opened this afternoon at 20:00 pm in the AV area of Murcia.

The work consists of 10 paintings, an installation, a sound piece and a video, in which spaces become places full of meaning, and where objects and people spend to acquire a name, history, identity and presence.

Martinez, who was accompanied by the artist, said that "one of the tasks that the Ministry of Culture and Tourism puts more effort is in promoting young artists from the region of Murcia, and many of them have passed through this room and will continue in the future. "He added that" this focus on the regional scene is an exciting project because we strongly believe that projects such as Pedro Guirao show the high level of quality that artists have achieved the region and no doubt lead them to be integrated in the context of contemporary art both nationally and internationally. "

In the works for this exhibition of Pedro Guirao, the 'track' becomes a line of text, two or three dimensional, graphic, sculptural, audio or filmed, which concentrates all the information you talk about the world, places, objects, their situations, from simple description, experiential memory and thinking, using written language (text, writing) or spoken (voice) as the only formal material.

Pedro Guirao is a multimedia artist who develops her work, particularly in the fields of visual art, sound and performative in individual and collective projects.

It is part of the action group bacilli Corporation which has developed projects in Madrid (Contemporary Scene, Festimad, Living Siroco), Valencia (Digital Media), Alicante (Museo de la Universidad de Alicante) and Murcia (La Fragua, Festival Aside upset you, SOS 4.8).

He also studied Fine Arts at the College of San Carlos (Valencia) and the Ecole National des Arts Visuels of La Cambre (Brussels).

Has also participated in workshops with Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Jon Mikel Euba, Leszek Madzik and Josef Svoboda, among others.

Martinez finished with a reference to a forthcoming catalog, in which "we could have Francis Collins, a specialist in the relationship between art and speech, and was curator of the exhibition 'The word imagined', which drew a Spanish art tour of the last century, "because, he said," Today we have a work with a conceptual base has a strong poetic. "

Source: CARM

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