The Botanical Garden has opened its doors to the showing Terra Cultivable a pictorial work that offers a zenithal walk through the Valencian orchard.  The proposal by Enric Ruiz suggests an elevated vision of the underrated and valuable orchard, which represents 30 works of mixed media, combining painting and textures by means of collage. 

Thus, the author materialises a reality formed by ditches, grooves on the ground, woods and roofs, through different materials that turn the showing into a mandatory visit for art lovers and those who love the Valencian orchard.  

The author of the work, full university professor of drawing and tenure-track 2 lecturer in Fine Arts, wanted to represent the life that is behind these smallholdings. But not just the vegetal life but also the urban life, the political reality that predicts a difficult future to this landscape threaten by urbanisation and speculation.

This is because this walk around the orchard is more than an aesthetic work through works of huge visual beauty where colours and textures are combined. Enric Ruiz pretends to go further and accomplish the enhancement of the landscape motivating sensibilities and the responsibility of the observer through art. In the end, a work as alive and captivating like the orchard itself. 

On the other side, it can also be visited the sample Bosc Ideal, with a photographic work by Enric Company Seguí, known as Kaiko, that travelled through the Iberian Peninsula among our wonderful woods. A travel that is materialized with this work formed by 50 printed photographs on canvas. The visitor that accesses to this ideal forest would be able to share his or her experiences in a tweet on social networking. 

After that we will find an ethereal forest, in which images have a great format: semi-transparent fabrics that hide seeds, aromas, fruits... And the last part of this exhibition is dedicated to our Garden, Kaiko shows for the first time the series ‘bosque de pez’ (‘fish forest’) in the place it was realised. 

The childhood and adolescence of Kaiko were marked by the contact with nature that awakened in him the need of capturing the beauty in negatives. And that is how he started a two years journey and 30000 km that have finished in this work that we welcome now.