The Santa Cruz de Tenerife Carnival, which this year will be held for the first time in its history in June, now has its official poster. This was announced this Monday by the City Council in an act held at the Casa del Carnaval in the capital.
The rapper and artist Borja Jiménez is the author of the image, entitled carnival 2222 and that has been the most voted in the popular contest called by the City Council.
Santa Cruz celebrates this year @SCenCarnival in June with a poster called ‘Carnival 2222’ @Bejoflow, motto of the work with which he won the popular contest that he called @FiestasStaCruz. pic.twitter.com/AwqOxl6w8q
— Development Society of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (@SocDesarrollo) January 31, 2022
The work, designed in digital format with a graphic tablet at a size of 50×70 cm in a CMYK color profile, is an allegory of the Tenerife Carnival in 200 years. In the composition there is an explosion of colors and elements related to carnival chicharreras and popular iconography set in science fiction literature and cinematography.
The central element is a cyborg head, where the artist fuses the human with the machine; Around it are intermingled different fantastic references alluding to the city of Santa Cruz and the world of science fiction from a playful perspective.
During the referendum, only one vote per IP address was allowed, with 94.5% of those cast being counted as valid and 5.5% being rejected. Throughout the process, the suffrage remained blind, that is, without references to the author or to the support that each of the posters collected.
The author of the winning poster receives a prize of 2,500 euros and the poster will become the exclusive property of OAFAR.
The City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, through the Autonomous Organism for Festivities and Recreational Activities, opened on January 13 the popular voting period by which the official poster of the Science Fiction Carnival would be chosen, from among the ten works finalists selected by a jury that was formed by the artist Julio Nieto; the graduate in Fine Arts and graphic designer from Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (TEA), Cristina Saavedra; the artist and graduate in Fine Arts, Ana Seco; and the president of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Carnival Culture Classroom, Pedro Mengíbar.
The other nine works shortlisted by the jury for the final phase and the vote they obtained were the following: a near future (538 votes); Love (1600 votes); Let yourself be carried away by the dimension of Carnival‘ (317 votes); C-Arte-L del C-arnava-l: The art of Carnival is in the street (1,009 votes); Andromeda Carnival (542 votes); Hello Chicharricolas (603 votes); carnival invasion (899 votes); Kaschemy (1,022 votes) and Abducted’22 (714 votes).
