CARME CENTER. Museum, 2
Cabanyal Portes Obertes was born on 1998, the year in which the Valencia City Council of the Popular Party headed by Rita Barberà announced its intention to widen Avinguda Blasco Ibáñez to the beach, razing in its wake more than 1.600 homes and splitting the city's seafaring quarter in two. In response, the project promoted by Plataforma Salvem El Cabanyal, with a clear combative side, it consisted of inviting artists from here and there to develop different manifestations of contemporary art in the houses of the neighbors and in the streets of the neighborhood to raise awareness among the population about the problem. The initiative grew and achieved such important milestones as the exhibition of 106 original works by Josep Renau the year 2000, the exhibition of the more than one hundred photographs of Centelles that were part of the exhibition of 2004 i the occupation of a three-storey building transformed into an ephemeral museum with material donated by the neighbors and a selection of the most interesting artistic installations from previous editions. The exhibition 1998-2015 Cabanyal Open Doors. Culture and Citizenship del Center del Carme looks back to review the involvement of art and culture in this important Valencian citizen movement that stood up to power and defeated. Cartistic and cultural engagement with the Cabanyal through more than seventy projects with the most outstanding works from the sixteen editions of Cabanyal Portes Obertes. With Paco's blanket “Cent Our” of more than five meters in height, in which residents from all over the city participated by embroidering their own address on fabric. On the other hand, lare artists Patricia Gómez and María Jesús González present in this exhibition an unpublished work that they started in 2005, In the memory of the site, in which they intervened in different houses in the neighborhood that were under threat, showing now all that archive of printed houses. Also s’exhibits a selection of the original illustrations from the editorial project of Half Cow Welcome to the Cabanyal, in which more than forty graphic artists illustrated 99 stories about the Cabanyal, and originals of the project A cabanyal of vignettes in which more than forty illustrators and a few photojournalists participated. AU
