Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE).- The Atlantic Center for Modern Art, the Plastic Arts Center and the Casa de Colón exhibit the “Island of Art” exhibition, with 250 works, some of them in the metaverse, an initiative that supports that the Museum of Fine Arts of Gran Canaria “is a reality”, according to the counselor Guacimara Medina.
In the presentation of this exhibition by part of the art collection that the Cabildo de Gran Canaria treasures, the insular Minister of Culture has stressed that the MUBEA “will open its doors when it is ready, and it will be because now we have a story”, has Said in reference to the antechamber of the funds that will house this coliseum, which is built in the old headquarters of the San Martín Hospital.
A few words that the director of the Casa de Colón, Elena Acosta, has corroborated when stating that “the most important thing in a museum is its collection, which is the basis for disseminating the ideas that emanate from it”, something that happens with “Isla de Arte”, an exhibition that covers the history of Canarian art from the ancient populations of the islands to 1989, the year in which the CAAM opened.
“It is public, it is your collection”, Acosta has said in reference to its potential visitors, to whom it is intended to show it so that “they feel it as their own and recognize themselves in it”.
Until June 18, the three venues of this exhibition, to which is added a room in the metaverse, the first project to be carried out in the Canary Islands in this area, will exhibit their contents in six different sections that act as communicating vessels: ” Latent substrate and artistic foundations” (7th to 16th centuries); “European flows” (16th and 17th centuries); “Atlantic Baroque” (18th century); “Eclectic path to modernity” (19th to 20th century); “Canarian synthesis and insular visions” (20th century); and “Multiple Horizons” (20th century).
The president of the Gran Canaria Cabildo, Antonio Morales, has stated that once the first phase of the rehabilitation works of the historic building that will house the MUBEA has been completed, it is expected that the second phase of the conditioning of the property will begin shortly, in which 20,000 artistic pieces owned by the island corporation will be exhibited.
Morales has highlighted that in the current legislature the institution that he presides has tripled the funds destined to acquire art, for which he has considered that in these years the cultural vitality of Gran Canaria has been confirmed.
“Island of Art. A collection for the Museum of Fine Arts of Gran Canaria” is curated by the curator of Casa de Colón, Francisco Javier Pueyo, and the director of CAAM, Orlando Britto.
Its pioneering metaverso room, dedicated to the multi-user universe that fuses physical reality with digital virtuality, shows 25 selected works in this environment, which can be visited by those who access from computers, mobile phones or virtual reality glasses through their avatar, with the that they will also be able to attend talks and other parallel activities that will take place in this virtual universe.
In this room, the avatar of the painter Jorge Oramas will offer guided tours and information about his work and those exhibited in this space, which is accessed through the website “www.grancanariaisladearte.com”, and which will also program a reality game augmented with which different challenges about works of art will be posed to the participants. EFE