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The artist has donated one of their "brains" to the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Murcia
It has been presented today at the building of the Rectory of the University of Murcia Lidó Rico exhibition entitled "The Wedding," whose official opening will take place on Thursday April 22 at 19:00.
The event, which was chaired by President Jose Orihuela, the artist has delivered one of the sculptures of the project at the Faculty of Medicine, whose dean, Miguel Garcia Salom, said they will seek a suitable place for the same place.
The exhibition is part of the project "Genoarquitecturas", a collaboration initiated two years ago by the Murcian artist Kuei Y. Tseng neurophysiologist, Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the University of Chicago, and neurobiologist José Luis Ferrán, professor, Department of Anatomy and Psychobiology of the University of Murcia.
Lidó Rico has made a series of Neuroesculturas obtained from several real human brains, with which the author establishes a new vision of our machinery of thought.
Rico considers vital and active social role to be played by art as a vehicle of knowledge, hence the special interest that one of his works go destined to the Faculty of Medicine.
Lidó Rico spoke about the current mission of the artist, who in his opinion should be "interconnect various disciplines" and said that "art has always been the brain from afar, from a landscaper view, but I'm interested in reality "" I seek not aesthetics, but the man ".
"Art is said to contribute, and in a cultural desert as we live, the University has a definite role for the development of man, is the company that distributes knowledge."
Dean of Medicine, Miguel Garcia Salom, welcomed the donation of the work, saying that "Art, like science, brings us closer to the beautiful, but represent it differently."
The Rector, meanwhile, drew a parallel between junk genes in the DNA chain with memes trash, that bring us said, throw culture, which he described as "the scum of civilization", and which it included television commercials, indiscriminate Internet buzoneo, astrology and political propaganda.
"The Genoarquitecturas project and the exhibition The Widding afirmó- transports us to a fascinating relationship on our thinking machine with art as a vehicle of knowledge" finally saying, regarding the work donated that "All of our students, teachers and administrative staff may enjoy this work of art in the building Biomedical Sciences ".
Memories and life experiences
"The Wedding" is intended to reflect on the importance of accumulating good experiences, because they are stored in our brain and contribute to the everyday decisions that our mind.
According recounts Lidó Rico, life experiences, enter the brain as a data that is stored at the level of neuronal synapses.
However, this memory is never a true representation of what happened and not remembered throughout life in the same way.
Our memories help, says the artist, to shape who we are as individuals in our culture and in the daily exercise of our life.
But memories are fragile and depend on the stability of our neural networks;
if they are lost in extreme situations such as Alzheimer's disease, which was an experience that marked our existence, and may disappear permanently absent transforming us into beings.
The construction of memory
Lidó Rico deploys a range of resources, both plastic and sound, which make traveling visitor to the exhibition through time and memory.
Psychologists and relevant people from public life lend their voice, together with other anonymous reviewing his experience with Alzheimer's.
To this testimonies, songs, snatches of dialogue and movie soundtracks, oaths, speeches and news that have marked our history come together.
This sound collage trying to raise consciousness about how our memory is built.
Rethinking alzheimer
The exhibition aims viewers to take an active role in this problem, change their perception about it and recognize the value of all those who work and live with those affected;
the struggle and effort of researchers is valued.
"The Wedding" helps us rethink Alzheimer's as a serious and latent problem in our society.
The project, which was presented last March 9 in Manama (Bahrain) will continue after passing through Murcia by cities like Barcelona, ​​where the gallery Imaginart host the exhibition titled MiróLidó, which reflects on the brains of renowned artists both classic and contemporary .
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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