The City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, through the Autonomous Organization for Fiestas and Recreational Activities (OAFAR), has released the new official poster for Carnival 2022. Under the title ‘Carnaval 2222?’, the digital creation of Borja Jiménez Mérida has been chosen as the winner in the popular voting process open between January 13 and 23.
The winning poster, proposed by the rapper from Tenerife popularly known by his stage name Bejo, received the support of 28.1% of the 10,077 votes cast through the portal www.carnavaldetenerife.comwhich represents a total of 2,833 adhesions.
The result of the vote was announced this Monday at the Casa del Carnaval facilities, in an act presided over by the mayor, José Manuel Bermúdez, and the Councilor for Fiestas, Alfonso Cabello, who accompanied the artist himself.
After publicly congratulating the winner, the mayor of the city, José Manuel Bermúdez, highlighted “the enthusiasm and joy that this year’s poster conveys and that invites us to have a future full of achievements” and, regarding the holding of the carnival in the calle pointed out that “with sanitary restrictions, it is not possible. We are talking about a Carnival designed for thousands of people to enjoy safely, hopefully in a few months the situation will change and that would be when we would think about the street”.
For Cabello, “both for the chicharreros and for our visitors, the poster is the letter of introduction to our most important festival, and one of the economic engines of our municipality”; so “it is not surprising the high interest in being part of a special process of our popular culture”.
The author of the poster explained the set of elements of the poster “typical of this year’s theme, in which I have tried to make a piece as harmonious as possible”.
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 pre-selected by the jury for the final phase and the votes they received 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 the Carnival is in the street’ (1,009 votes); ‘Andromeda Carnival’ (542 votes); ‘Hello, Chicharrícolas’ (603 votes); ‘Carnival Invasion’ (899 votes); ‘Casquimia’ (1,022 votes) and ‘Abducted’22’ (714 votes).
