SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Jan. 17 (EUROPA PRESS) –
TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes presented its artistic program for 2022 this Monday, which includes exhibitions dedicated to artists such as Maud Westerdahl, Etel Adnan, Sol Calero and José Herrera, as well as a new sample of the TEA Collection, and the 2021 activity report .
The insular director of Culture, Alejandro Krawietz, and the artistic director of TEA, Gilberto González, were in charge of announcing the different exhibitions that can be visited throughout this year, as well as the rest of the programs that will take place. held in this art center of the Cabildo de Tenerife.
Krawietz emphasized that “this programming in one way or another dialogues with the cultural space of the islands and will provide decisive information in the field of inquiry and investigation in which TEA is inserted.”
These new exhibitions, he commented, “bring spaces for reflection that are necessary today and that contribute and amplify the limits of inquiry of the plastic arts in the territory”.
In addition, he underlined the fact that “TEA is an area in which, in addition to artistic activity, it is also made up of other outstanding elements such as the TEA Collection and a documentation center, which allows the construction of new images on the territory and the new perspectives that the museum must offer researchers and citizens”.
For his part, Gilberto González highlighted “the recovery in the number of visitors compared to 2019” since last year TEA received the visit of more than 46,000 people, which is more than double the public compared to 2020.
In this regard, González indicated that TEA “has reconnected with the citizens of Tenerife” by receiving more local visitors than previous years.
In addition to this, he announced that the 2021 report includes, in addition to all the activities, exhibitions and programs developed in this center, the acquisitions made “that become part of the TEA Collection, allowing decades and authors who were not sufficiently represented.
MORE THAN 46,000 SPECTATORS AT THE EXHIBITIONS
Throughout 2021, a total of 46,144 people visited the TEA exhibitions in Santa Cruz, which is more than double the public compared to 2020, when 21,124 people did so.
Likewise, during this time, 202 activities were carried out that attracted 4,722 people.
The MiniTEA Space, a place where children and families can enjoy art and creativity with total freedom, received 10,195 people throughout 2021.
Likewise, during the past year, 55 films were screened within the stable cinema programming with 6,482 spectators and 1,137 people attended other film screenings and film cycles scheduled throughout this year.
Regarding the new exhibition program, González valued that Maud Westerdahl’s -with which TEA opens the year- will be the first retrospective dedicated to her figure as an artist and cultural agitator.
He also announced that in 2022 the new proposal for the TEA Collection will be titled ‘Modern Museum’ and will offer a new reading of its collections, starting on this occasion with an enigmatic work by René Magritte.
Others must be added to these exhibitions: one curated by Pablo León de la Barra, focused on the impact of concrete on the architectural renewal of modernity and brutalism and its variants as a synthesis of this phenomenon, and another curated by Yosi Negrín and Paula Ramos Mollá, which will address the subversive role of the concept of waste in our present.
“Until now we had made a somewhat analytical program to try to understand how art perceives its time and its moment. However, this year’s programming we face it with a certain utopian character, that is, trying to think of possible future scenarios”, Gonzalez stated.
‘PRODUCTION 0’
In addition to this, he explained that TEA will offer, within its public programs, different live arts activities, mediation, experimental editing and publication, reflection on the limits of knowledge and meetings in the form of workshops.
This art center is committed to a determined vocation for public service to integrate, present, promote and debate the art of today’s society, which is why it reinforces various fields of work with the idea of making the different tasks that the center must carry out more visible. carried out in its dual role as a museum and an art center.
On the other hand, he stressed that the ‘Production 0’ residency program will be resumed in the summer, which will allow its participants to make the center a participant in their artistic practice outside the usual parameters of production and research, proposing that TEA become a space for rehearsal and experimentation conducive to generating connections between different types of knowledge.
The people who will participate in this residence will be selected through a public call that is expected to open in May.
