The Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Pedro Alberto Cruz, this morning the Open Video Project, a network consisting of six video spots that will be used for exhibitions of video art and which will start in late September.
This is a pioneering initiative at the international level, will oversee each quarter a commissioner acknowledged, "will generate a street circuit, so that those who want to consume all the exposure has to go through each one of the videos and that none of these points will repeat the same work, "said Cruz.
The exhibition displayed the works of video artists of the moment and run by independent curators as the director of the Contemporary SMS Siena, Marco Pierini, who opened the show with a music video project, former director of the Centro Atlántico de Arte Canary modern and independent curator Fominaya Alvaro Rodríguez, whose project will focus on Asian animation, the director of the Department of Audiovisual Works of Art National Art Museum "Reina Sofía", Berta Bichel, who carried a sign around biopolitical , and the artists and independent curators Silvia Martí y Mar Caldas, who will present a project focusing on gender issues.
The objectives are marked with this new initiative, said Cruz, focus first on the creation of a new exhibition space for art, "which blends with the urban and the viewer, usually enclosed rooms art becomes a walking urban "and secondly, it is" ending the closed nature of the art exhibition promoting the idea of public art and community art that allows a popularization of the language usually restricted to minority audiences In short, the democratization of contemporary art. "
In this regard, the Minister of Culture, which has insisted on "ending the concept of the art gallery as a temple where the threshold hard to pass," said that this program constitutes a "new paradigm in terms of art exhibition contemporary "while the show" will force the viewer to explore the city in a different way to complete, which will redefine the city otherwise, will create another mapping of the urban fabric and that is that which is given by consumption of art. "
The six video will built a 22-inch television and a DVD player that will work from morning to night.
In addition, a device sound activated when a person is placed in front of the monitor.
Source: CARM