Visit of students of fine arts of the Polytechnic of Valencia to CAAC of the campus of Cuenca UCLM.
Visit of students of fine arts of the Polytechnic of Valencia to CAAC of the campus of Cuenca UCLM.
Today we have had the visit of the students from the Master in Advanced Studies of Museums and Historical-Artistic Heritage from the Complutense University in Madrid to our Collections and Archives.
The tribute was attended by the widow of Canales, Esther Graciá; his daughter, Marina Canales and a large number of friends and colleagues of the artist and professor at the School of Art of Cuenca. The event was presented by José Ramón Alcalá, friend and artistic partner of Canales; by Ruben Tortosa, friend and curator of the exhibition; by Maria Angeles Zurilla, Vice Chancellor of Culture and University Extension; by the Dean of the Faculty, Francisco Javier Díez de Baldeón and Patxi Andión, director of the Art Department.
The Contemporary Art Collections and Archives (CAAC) of Cuenca have inaugurated two new exhibitions in the framework of international projects and in which thirty artists participate.
The exhibitions “Poéticas de lo Múltiple” and “How to break a screen” are part of two artistic projects related to different fields and techniques.
This work represents the end of MINECO and ERDF projects which during the last two years have been developed in the Collections and Archives of Contemporary Art of the School of Fine Arts of Cuenca, at the University of Castilla-La Mancha
The catalog of the Collections and Archives of Contemporary Art (CAAC) of Cuenca, edited by José Ramón Alcalá and Vicente Jarque, assisted in the coordination by Beatriz Escribano, and designed by Héctor Morejón, has been finally published, after two years of intense work around the projects MINECO Ref. HAR2013-48604-C2-1-P and Castilla-La Mancha with European funds, ERDF Ref. P011-2014-002-P. Both projects, ending in December, will have their continuity with the MINECO project “Spanish Archive of Media Art” which will be directed by Ana Navarrete (UCLM) and Miguel Ángel Marzal (UC3M).
José Ramón Alcalá, acting director of the International Museum of Electrography (MIDE) and coordinator of the Collections and Archives of Contemporary Art (CAAC) of Cuenca, participated, accompanied by his team, with a conference on the opening day of LabMeeting Madrid 2015, organized by Medialab-Prado which takes place from today until next Thursday in Madrid (Spain).
