In Valencia, a few meters from the sea, a set of emblematic buildings that belonged to the Navy Auxiliante are built, the fishermen's society founded at the end of the 19th century by patrons and masters of the boats, which carried out its activity on the beach of El Cabanyal until the middle of the 20th century. They are the fish market, the Ice Factory and the Casa dels Bous, which provided shelter to the oxen in charge of taking the fishing boats in and out of the sea, also necessary for fishing bou (trawl fishing), that Sorolla immortalized in one of his canvases. Precisely on the first floor of this building the Valencian painter kept some of his famous oil paintings..
No labels identify the Atelier dels Bous, with entrance on Eugenia Viñes street, but it is unmistakable for its characteristic sundial on the south façade and the heads of two oxen under the balcony flanking the main door to the building., sólo visibles desde el interior del patio. Now they are completely disfigured by erosion, but in their day they wore royal antlers. It was a metallurgical workshop for the shipping and railway industry, was in the hands of the Valencia City Council for eight years in which the building remained closed and, once recovered by the Auxiliary Navy, timid attempts to open were made, giving up space Breakfast with pedestrians or hosting the inauguration of the Cabanyal Intimate 2015.
Well then, a year ago, in December 2014, The La Fabrica del Sol association finally woke him up from his coma and took the reins of management.. It took a lot of cleaning and restoration of the facades to begin giving a new sociocultural use to this space that is neither public nor private.. The partners propose, They filter and manage the activities hosted by this house, which acts as a magnet for citizen projects and symbolizes innovation in cultural management processes in a collaborative regime.. The figure of the citizen-manager exists and expands like oil, It seems that with the support of the new council. The Valencia City Council finalizes the bases of a competition to give use to a dozen spaces in Ciutat Vella with the solar Corona as a referent. It will be seen…
looking back, in the 650 m2 of the Atelier, a lot has happened during these twelve months. Concerts, theater, urban horticulture halls or mbira (African ancestral instrument), a shibari show (a japanese style of bondage), a surfing party… Last month they presented the project The Cabanyal of today and yesterday of the Culture and Heritage collective, a vision of the origins of the neighborhood and how it has evolved during the PEPRI years, the controversial urban plan. But not all events have to do with the neighborhood, and for sample, a button. In December they have a performance by Pedro Montesinos scheduled and they are preparing a craft market for the bridge. Stay tuned for your Facebook, that smokes. S.M.
