From March 28 to May 31, 2015, the Botín Foundation Gallery in Santander to host the Itinerarios XXI exhibition, an annual event celebrating its 21 anniversary and that is like a thermometer to assess the current state if the arts and snapshots within the prevail tendencies at national and international level.
The program for the Plastic Arts Scholarships from the Botín Foundation in which over 168 artists have taken part since 1994, most of them have currently a solid professional carrier; it fosters ambitious artistic projects related to research and training, which works as support and promotion for the emerging art. The Itinerarios XXI collective exhibition shows the results of the process work of these artists during their time in the scholarship and it complements with the edition of a catalogue keeping these different projects. Also the Foundation includes in its Collection the work of the scholarship beneficiaries.
Itinerarios XXI exhibition compiles works 9 artists. Some of them have a large artistic carrier at international level while others are new talents who have interesting work proposals. They include Carles Congost (Olot, 1970), Albert Corbí (Alcoi, 1976), Patricia Esquivias (Caracas, 1979), Jon Mikel Euba (Amorebieta, 1967), Rodrigo Oliveira (Sintra, 1978), Wilfredo Prieto (Sancti Spiritus, 1978); Julia Spínola (Madrid, 1979), Justin Randolph Thompson (Peekskill, Nueva York, 1979) and Jorge Yeregui (Santander, 1975).
The external jury is composed of Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes (Director of the Andaluz Contemporary Art Center), Pedro Cabrita Reis (a Portuguese artist), Patricia Dauder (a Catalan artist who enjoyed this scholarship in the period 2006-2007) and Osvaldo Sánchez (a curator and Cuban art critic) who was in charge to choose these 9 projects among 759 applications from 51 countries.
This edition of the Itinerarios XXI event explores the idea that a work of art is a means facilitating the visualization of some process for the users.
Since decades, they question about the idea that beyond their exhibition in different spaces, the relevant within an artistic process is the different phases related to the research and production before the traditional conception of finish work ready to be accepted and used.
Itinerarios XXI
From March 28 to May 31
Fundación Botín Gallery.
Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, 3.
Previous publication Between Sigh and Silence / Jorge Santos Marcos
Next publication The MoMA to gather 150 Picasso’s works
Related Publications
