Portal de Murcia

www.portaldemurcia.com

• Home
• Business
• Hotels
• Restaurants
• News
• Advertisement

The study area is the Parque de Levante Murcia city of some 50 hectares of scope

The Mayor of Murcia, Miguel Angel House, led at the Museum of Modern Art in New York a meeting of experts organized by the Foundation Gabarrón, from the world of Art, Architecture, Design, Urbanism and Environment.

Among the participants is Barry Bergdoll, chief curator of architecture and design department of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), Terry Riley, predecessor and now director of the Miami Museum of Art and Architecture Council Member MoMA Design, Andrew Davies, Director of Complex Environmental and Contemporary Art Toronto, Cris Gabarrón, Gabarrón Foundation President, Luis Fernández Galiano, Editor of Architecture Architect Viva, John Keenen, Architect Founder of K / R; Andrew Klemmer, Paratus Group President, Fernando Berberena, Deputy Mayor of Planning and Land of Murcia, Rochelle Steiner, the Independent Commissioner and Director of Public Art Fund in New York.

The study area is the Parque de Levante Murcia city of approximately 50 hectares of scope, which will become a cultural landmark new artistic avant-garde museum, both from the standpoint of local and international.

The city of Murcia, with its economic wealth and its favorable location in Spain, has the potential to experience great changes in this new century.

The city believes that a new cultural project would be a strategic investment that offer art and contemporary design within a broader context, thereby helping to improve the socio-cultural environment and economic growth Murcia Murcia and the region.

Under the new concept of Hortus + Culture, the City of Murcia is promoting a platform to explore the complex relationship between humanity, with all its cultural and artistic expression, and the land that sustains and inspires, taking advantage of generous agricultural parcel of oranges Murcia.

The new museum complex and the garden will attract artists and curators to a place where the sculptures, paintings, music performances and explore the relationship between place and human intervention.

This place and the art that will provide will enable visitors to create a direct connection between the creative activities of mankind and the earth and the environment.

.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia