The Director General for Cultural Promotion, Antonio Martínez, today presented the exhibition 'World.
Seco.
Benamor.
Bitter 'of the Austrian artist, Eva Lootz with which reopened the exhibition hall of the Church of Verona, whose rehabilitation works have been employed around 473,000 euros, to turn it into a space suitable for exhibition needs and as the demand for high quality programming.
In the show, Eva Lootz, artist key to understanding the Spanish art of the last decades, focuses on the theme of water, making a portrait of the territory through the names of the rivers that form the Segura River Basin .
The 35 names in a locked chests as those used for food preservation, are complemented by the video 'A thousand times, no matter the time ...', a kind of story listening to the water where it is mixed sleep, wakefulness and memories of childhood, projected onto the elongated niche formerly occupied by the altar.
This is an exhibition that, like all the work of this artist, is a poetic reflection about the visible, while an investigation into the language.
"I'm not claiming any significance, I am considering the facts of the culture," explained the artist.
The exhibition will be open until June 21 and has a catalog that includes texts professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, José María Parra and current director of Santa Monica in Barcelona, Vicenç Altaió, plus Eva Lootz.
Source: CARM