Santillana del Mar (EFE).- The Espacio 1973 of the National Museum of Altamira will host the temporary exhibition “Signs grow with hands” until September 15.
In this exhibition, inaugurated this Saturday, four artists inspired by the Cantabrian cavity have created different micro-stories to link prehistoric paintings with contemporary art.
Presented at the 59th International Art Exhibition-Venice Biennale last year, it includes a project led by the Odalys Foundation and the Signum Foundation, with the support of the Altamira Museum and with Alfonso de la Torre as curator.
“Signs grow with hands” is a heterogeneous set of proposals that enriches and values Altamira’s own prehistoric heritage.
It offers a reinterpretation from figuration or the abstract, updating the natural link between past and present artistic creation.
Both the artists and the curator of the exhibition have explained to EFE that it is a multiple work that in its corridor offers a large set of images about the Altamira cave to tell the story of this cavity.
A WALK THROUGH ALTAMIRA IN “HIGH RESOLUTION”
As if it were a walk through the cave, the high-resolution images of the film “Altamira, the origin of art” are projected in this entrance corridor until reaching the works of the artists Ruth Gómez, Nuria Mora, Daniel Muñoz and Six Walls.
“You appear in a world with contemporary works inspired by Altamira and the remains of the Paleolithic”, explained Alfonso de la Torre about “Caves” by Ruth Gómez (Valladolid), “XYZ-Transcending Physical Limits (I and II) by Nuria Mora (Madrid), “Drag Image” by Daniel Muñoz (Cáceres) and “Paleolithic Futurism” by Sixe Paredes (Barcelona).
If you continue advancing in this exhibition, you will come to Nuria Mora’s canvases that are unfolding in three axes in the same way that the cave is discovered and that it was throughout time.
While “You drag image” are two conceptual proposals that raise a series of questions about the construction of space through the image and its sociological functions.
And Sixe Paredes has created the series “Paleolithic Futurism” for this exhibition, a set of works in which a multitude of geometric and linear forms are generated, joining in an infinity of superimposed layers.
Celia Aguero Pereda