London Art Biennale selects for the first time two works of art that pay homage to the "Benidorm model"
The inauguration is attended by a delegation of the municipal corporation headed by the mayor, Toni Pérez
The artist Oscar Tusquets reflects his admiration for the city in more than 40 works that from this afternoon are also exhibited in an art gallery of the London capital
On the same day that the United Kingdom formally requested its departure from the European Union, the art that pays tribute to "Benidorm model" entered through the big door in the artistic heart of the capital of its main issuing market, the Art Biennial of London. Yesterday, March 29, the main art exhibition in London was inaugurated at Chelsea Old Town Hall, a magnificent neo-classical building of the Victorian era which since yesterday has hosted 400 works by 120 artists from 40 countries, including Spain and the last work of Oscar Tusquets, a passionate tribute to the urban design and what Benidorm represents and its tourist model.
The mayor Toni Pérez, at the head of a delegation of the municipal corporation, Hosbec leaders, with its President Toni Mayor, and Visit Benidorm Foundation, along with prominent local businessmen, accompanied by Oscar Tusquets were at the inauguration of an event that was run by the mayor of Kensington and Chelsea, Elizabeth Rutherdord. The event was also attended by the cultural attaché of the Spanish Embassy in London, Fernando Villalonga.
The mayor of Benidorm stressed that through this event "Benidorm has projected its best image in one of the world centers of art, design and innovation. An extraordinary framework, "he said," to put into value the virtues of the vertical city and the sustainability represented by Benidorm model. " He emphasized that "it is a unique opportunity to project the best image of the city by art". Words added by the president of Hosbec, Toni Mayor, pointing out that "Oscar Tusquets's art has made the city adn emerge as an avant-garde urban space, dynamic, effective and also beautiful."
The two selected works, two panoramics of the city drawn in pencil, are part of the exhibition 'Gran Benidorm', 40 works in different supports and with different techniques that simultaneously to the Biennial can also be seen in London from this afternoon in Room One art gallery. This exhibition was already shown in Barcelona last October with a remarkable audience attendance and brought together outstanding personalities of the Catalan capital's culture and art. This summer it is planned that the exhibition will arrive in Benidorm and that it is wanted to coincide with a day in which to reflect on the city of Benidorm and its future evolution.
The London Art Biennale, considered one of the most important artistic events in the United Kingdom, meets annually at the forefront of the most representative art in different parts of the world. Among the works selected this year, in the words of his own author, "an artistic reflection on Benidorm", which distills the passion with which Tusquets admires Benidorm, a city that has studied and analyzed and which does not hesitate to qualify as " Urban wonder ".
On the occasion of the selection of two of his works for the London Biennale, Tusquets has lavished these days in interviews that have made in various national and provincial media, in which he has not left in all of them to express his admiration for the urban model of a city that he discovered in the sixties and considered "one of the best built places in the world." Even the newspaper The Times, in a chronicle of its correspondent in Madrid echoed the presence of Benidorm at the London Biennial.
