Entrance to the exhibition is free and can be visited until March 15
Boca del Calvari museum hosts ‘La mirada del otro’, the contemporary portrait in painting from Alicante
Boca del Calvari Museum will host from today until March 15 the collective exhibition ‘La mirada del otro'. The contemporary portrait in Alicante painting ’in which Rosalía Banent, Ormar Arráez, Víctor Cámara, Xavi García, Ut Walden, Carlos Llorens, Hunter87 and Silvia Viana participate, eight leading artists from the southern regions of the Valencian Community.
The mayor of Benidorm, Toni Pérez, and the Councilor for Historical Heritage, Ana Pellicer, have toured the exhibition hours before its official opening, together with the curator of the exhibition, Alicia Lamarca, some authors and municipal technicians. "A cast of artists - Pellicer pointed out - that give our museum even more level" that, exhibition after exhibition show the quality taken by art, culture and, in this case "painting, portraiture in our city" .
The Councilor for Historical Heritage has recalled that entry to the exhibition is free. It can be visited by anyone who wishes as long as "the security measures, the capacity, the use of a mask and the hydroalcoholic gel" that are at the entrance of the municipal facility are complied with, as required by current health regulations due to Covid -19.
Ana Pellicer wanted to thank Alicia Lamarca for the work done with this "and each one of the exhibitions that we carry out in the Espai d'Art Urbà in our city" because she has managed to "take the #BenidormExpone" label to the highest category. that includes all the exhibitions programmed by the City Council.
For her part, Alicia Lamarca has emphasized that all the participants in the group show are "born or artists who have developed their work" in the province of Alicante and, among them, two from Benidorm: Carlos Llorens and Ut Walden. Of the first she has pointed out that he is "a collector of old magazines" through which he "creates portraits." Of the second, she highlights her abstract art “through the 'action painting' or action painting 'with which she creates the work and,“ later through the gestures of the painting on the canvas ”, all the movement and expressiveness of the box.
About Omar Arráez, Lamarca points out that “through the role of the folds and the lighting” she manages to create the face of the character. From Hunter87, she highlights his specialization in urban art as she demonstrated in “the series about the sailors of La Vila”. Regarding Xavi García, the domain of abstract art "very material" that the character presents and shows "his concerns about him towards today's society." Regarding Rosalía Banet, she has underlined the development "of the duality that society creates" in people who burden them with "a lot of stress because one thing is what one is and another what society expects us to be".
Continuing with his description, by Silvia Viana, Lamarca has highlighted his "classic technique" with a "very political and social message" and Víctor Cámara, how he perceives the 21st century, "analyzes and shapes it with his point of view in which there is room for a point of humor ”.
Finally, Fernando Maiques, a technician of the Department, has specified that with 'La mirada del otro' begins "the agenda of the 2021 course in Boca del Calvari museum" with "very original" works that, she is convinced that" people are going to love it ”.
