SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Jan. 25 (EUROPA PRESS) –
TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes has presented this Wednesday its artistic program for 2023 with a total of ten exhibitions, including the one dedicated to Óscar Domínguez from Tenerife and the collective one to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the International Exhibition of Street Sculptures, which took place on the island in 1973.
Other exhibitions with the works of Jorge Eduardo Eielson, Sofía Bassi or Álvaro Urbano are among the ten proposals that this contemporary art center of the Cabildo de Tenerife will exhibit this year and which will end with a new edition of the Fotonoviembre International Photography Biennial.
The details were released this Wednesday by the Minister of Culture, Enrique Arriaga; the insular director of Culture, Alejandro Krawietz, and the artistic director of TEA, Gilberto González.
Arriaga highlighted that for yet another year TEA has been crowned as a “key reference” cultural space for artistic creation on the island and stressed that in 2022 it registered an attendance of more than 83,000 visitors in the more than 200 activities that were organized in the center of contemporary art.
In that review, he noted that “53 films have been screened in the original version within the firm commitment to non-commercial cinema that has existed since the opening of TEA.”
He also mentioned the more than 24,000 people who have participated in the proposal of the educational area, “a program that aims to bring art to all groups.”
For the also vice president of the Cabildo, “TEA is a fundamental element for the promotion of the island and the island’s culture” and stressed that with the exhibition of Óscar Domínguez the surrealist painter will receive the tribute “he deserves.”
Alejandro Krawietz announced that “TEA has been chosen as one of the reference centers for contemporary Spanish culture during the presidency of the European Union, which will take place in the second half of this year” and considered that this designation has been achieved “thanks to programming that has been consolidated over the years”.
Regarding the exhibition dedicated to Óscar Domínguez, the island director pointed out that the revisions that have been made about his figure “admit constant contemporary readings” and stressed that “it will be a very relevant exhibition”.
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He also highlighted the exhibition that is going to be dedicated to Jorge Eduardo Eielson, “whose work is growing a lot now, but who was already related to Tenerife in the 90s”, and a new edition of Fotonoviembre to close a year, in which TEA celebrates its fifteenth anniversary.
Krawietz also highlighted the proposal ‘What a head weighs’, which will serve as a tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Sculptures on the Street exhibition in 1973.
For the insular director, “it is about making a historical vision of that event to know what is the present of the sculpture, which has changed a lot in this time.”
Regarding this exhibition, the artistic director of TEA indicated that they understood that from 1973 there was a process of “dissolution” and the presence of the sculpture in a museum “is no longer so important to the physical” and for this reason they want to “delve into as many authors have raised since 1973” through the exhibitions ‘What weighs a head’ and ‘Performing the museum’.
Gilberto González was also analyzing the rest of the exhibitions planned for 2023 and advanced the continuity of the activities of live arts, mediation, experimental editing and publication, reflection on the limits of knowledge and meetings in the form of workshops.
All these actions include the strategies proposed by the artistic director in Principle of uncertainty, collects a note from the Cabildo.
Likewise, the center will continue with its stable film program on weekends and in the Education area TEA will continue to offer numerous actions within its different programs: The art of learning, Enfamiliarte, MiniTardes, Mano a mano and Cajón de arte.
