The Cultural Center La Nau from the University hosts today, 15 September at 19:00 a solidary auction for the Sahara as a consequence of the exhibition ‘Solidaria Artistas Valencianos con el Sahara’ (Valencian Artists with the Sahara), organized by the University of Valencia by the FASPSPV (Associations Federation of Solidarity-Focus with the Saharan People from the Valencian Region).
The exhibition, which opened on 5 September, collects works of over sixty artists among which we find Antoni Miro, Javier Calvo, Javier Mariscal, Joan Cardells, Manuel Boix, Rafael Armengol, Rosa Torres, Miquel Navarro.
The collected funds through the exhibition, which evidences the cultural compromise with the historical conflict of Western Sahara, will be directed to a project of family vegetable patches for the Sahraouian population.
The more than sixty works form an important sample of currents works of art in Valencian surroundings. The cataloguing, study and valuing of each of the donated works have been professionally rated and oscillate between 100 and 2,000 euros.
Over 300 people attended the opening in the Academic Room in La Nau, which counted with the presence of the vice-principal of Culture, Antonio Ariño; Lola Claramunt, president of the FASPSPV; Roman de la Calle, commissioner of the exhibition and president of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos; a delegation of representatives from the Sahara and a wide representation of artists among which we could highlight Manuel Boix, Pepe Diaz Azorin, Cristina Navarro, Fuencisla Frances, Javier Calvo, Rafael Armengol, Marie-Pierre Guiennot, Aurora Valero, Carmen Grau, Francisca Mompó, Karina Vagradova, Maribel Doménech ....
During his intervention, Antonio Ariño thanked the massive assistance to the exhibition and encouraged the assistants to bring more people so the auction could have a complete success.
Organized by the University of Valencia as an initiative of the FASPSPV (Associations Federation of Solidarity-Focus with the Saharan People from the Valencian Region) who contacted with the organization, the more than sixty works form a detached exhibition of plastic works of the current Valencian artistic frame.
The participating artists belong to different generations and the vast majority are subscribed to the Valencian vital horizon, well by birth or well by residence. In some cases, they enjoy of a recognized trajectory and a measurable artistic curriculum. In other cases, they are young artists who, together with its professional emergency, don’t forget the reaching of their solidarity, parallel with its creative development.
Concretely, because of this generational diversity, the stylistic tendencies, the pictorial techniques and the used procedures are plurals, even all because there are plays of recent production, but as well previous pieces. But in all the cases, the plays are fully representative of the involved artists.
This exhibition will occupy the bigger hall of the historic building, the Academic Hall, is the first of a season full of expositive projects into the UV.
More information and consulting the catalogue with the works’ prices: http://links.uv.es/0SFfyvu
Photo-gallery of the opening. Eduardo Alapont: http://links.uv.es/lZHNtc5
Last update: 15 de september de 2014 08:00.
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