Visit to Museums of Malaga. 2022-23
On November 18, our students of the Baccalaureate of Arts and Image and Sound made an interesting visit to museums in Malaga, developed with the main purpose of the Department of Art is to educate the look of our young students to help them discover a new way to perceive and feel the artistic manifestations of our environment. Likewise, with these visits the attending students broaden their knowledge in the areas in which we work in the classroom while promoting artistic sensitivity.
We start the day by going to the Cultural Center 'La Térmica', to enjoy “María Svarbova. This is my swim lane”, almost a hundred pieces including snapshots of all his artistic series, audiovisual material, documents or props used for his filming. The exhibition, unprecedented in Spain, shows the two famous series by the self-taught photographer María Svarbova, : Swimming Pools and Retro Future.
With a very personal style, he moves away from traditional portraiture and focuses on experimentation with space, color and atmosphere. Interested in architecture and public spaces, María transforms each scene with a modern freshness, which together with watery pastels, possess great elegance and the simple beauty of everyday life.
Our students admired his work, clean and minimalist, which conveys a sense of distance, noting that routine actions and household chores are framed in perfect symmetry.
Everyone was amazed at the visual language of this artist, with images that reflect a dream world and great care for symmetry, which encourages viewers to use their imagination to find answers in her work. Because Maria affirms «When I look through the viewfinder, I see a parallel world. It is an imaginary world that works in a different temporal plane”.
In addition, at La Térmica we also visit one of the spaces of the Ozangé exhibition, I Biennial of African Photography, a careful selection of works by current photographers from the continent, artists who expand the borders. Our students appreciated this show of contemporary African artists reflecting against colonial heritage and were especially surprised by “Unpacking the Suitcase”, a collage of photographs and documents found in the suitcase of Prince Adewale Emmanuel Oyenuga.
Likewise, we contemplate the works of African artists such as Stephen Tayo, Bonolo Kavula and Lunga Ntile, who challenge stereotypes of race and gender.
To end our day, we complete our itinerary with a visit to the Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga to admire the exhibition “Belgian Art. From Impressionism to Magritte.” where through more than 70 pictorial works by 50 artists, our students have been able to immerse themselves in Belgian art from fin-de-siècle Realism and Landscaping to Impressionism and avant-garde art from the mid-XNUMXth century, culminating the visit with a selection of the works of the great artist of Surrealism René Magritte.
In all the exhibitions, the visits were exceptionally presented by some very special guides: our own Art High School students.
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