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XIX EDITION OF THE VISUAL ARTS GRANT
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The Fundación Botín grants afford artists a wonderful opportunity to work freely, beyond the constraints of the art market, enabling each grant holder to carry out on his/her own personal research. As a result, the number of applicants increases each year and selecting the eight recipients of the grant is a difficult task that concludes after two intense and enlightening meetings where, in addition to studying the dossiers, the members of the evaluation committee engage in enriching conversations and discussions on the current circumstances surrounding art and its practice.
Iria Candela, Juan de Nieves, Fernando Sánchez Castillo and Julião Sarmento were entrusted to evaluate the 908 applications that were received from 70 different countries in the 19th call for applications for the Fundación Botín Visual Arts Grant. The resulting recipients were Antoni Abad (Lleida – Spain, 1956), Karmelo Bermejo (Malaga – Spain, 1979), André Guedes (Lisbon – Portugal, 1976), Julia Montilla (Barcelona – Spain, 1970), Javier Núñez Gasco (Salamanca – Spain, 1971), João Onofre (Lisbon – Portugal, 1976), Jorge Satorre (Mexico City – Mexico, 1979) and David Zink Yi (Lima – Peru, 1973).
Itinerarios enables the grant holders to display their projects in an exhibition that underscores the complexity of the research processes and the connections of many of the participants with other cultural agents and the expression thereof. In a word, this is a group exhibition centred on the prevalent research component of each of the projects and a set of shared procedures that connect them with the current state of affairs.
In the prologue to the exhibition catalogue, Juan de Nieves offers an introduction to each of the proposals of the artists and his/her position within the art scene today, asserting that “…art is an essential tool to understand the era in which we live, while at the same time acting as a useful alternative vehicle for social change.”
The Fundación Botín grants afford artists a wonderful opportunity to work freely, beyond the constraints of the art market, enabling each grant holder to carry out on his/her own personal research. As a result, the number of applicants increases each year and selecting the eight recipients of the grant is a difficult task that concludes after two intense and enlightening meetings where, in addition to studying the dossiers, the members of the evaluation committee engage in enriching conversations and discussions on the current circumstances surrounding art and its practice.
Iria Candela, Juan de Nieves, Fernando Sánchez Castillo and Julião Sarmento were entrusted to evaluate the 908 applications that were received from 70 different countries in the 19th call for applications for the Fundación Botín Visual Arts Grant. The resulting recipients were Antoni Abad (Lleida – Spain, 1956), Karmelo Bermejo (Malaga – Spain, 1979), André Guedes (Lisbon – Portugal, 1976), Julia Montilla (Barcelona – Spain, 1970), Javier Núñez Gasco (Salamanca – Spain, 1971), João Onofre (Lisbon – Portugal, 1976), Jorge Satorre (Mexico City – Mexico, 1979) and David Zink Yi (Lima – Peru, 1973).
Itinerarios enables the grant holders to display their projects in an exhibition that underscores the complexity of the research processes and the connections of many of the participants with other cultural agents and the expression thereof. In a word, this is a group exhibition centred on the prevalent research component of each of the projects and a set of shared procedures that connect them with the current state of affairs.
In the prologue to the exhibition catalogue, Juan de Nieves offers an introduction to each of the proposals of the artists and his/her position within the art scene today, asserting that “…art is an essential tool to understand the era in which we live, while at the same time acting as a useful alternative vehicle for social change.”
