Well, the day has come when museums join forces to reclaim their importance in society as unifiers and generators of culture., Phase just released 1 in the Valencian Community, and it's time to celebrate it that way. That is to say, How social events are celebrated today, virtually or smeared in disinfectant gel. We summarize what the different museums in the city have come up with to celebrate International Museum Day this year. 2020 whose motto is “Museums for equality.”: diversity and inclusion”. The goal is to celebrate the diversity of perspectives that make up communities and promote tools to identify and overcome biases about what museums show and the stories they tell.. He VAT, for a start, does something so mundane, and so extraordinary at the same time, how to open your doors at your usual hours [10-19h.] and for free. The star dish will be the conversation broadcast on YouTube [17h.] between the museum director, Jose Miguel G. Cortés, and the director of Bombas Gens, Nuria lipita, about the challenges museums face due to the coronavirus crisis, with challenges such as protecting its collections, the safety and health of staff and visitors, the search for creative and innovative responses or maintaining engagement with the public in these difficult and uncertain times. Besides, The museum plans to open the exhibition to the public Jorge Peris. Dark Man on the back of the Firebird, a specific project by the artist from Alzira carried out for the gallery 6 in which he reviews the landscapes of the Albufera that marked him during his stage of artistic training.
He Carmel Center, that on friday 15/5 virtually inaugurated the exhibition Everyday actions by Maribel Domenech, offers a surprise concert inspired by the artist's work that can be followed from 11 a.m.. through social networks. Music and dance to make visible the relationship between space, music, architecture and works of art with the body. Domènech's work revolves around the reflection of everyday life: where the intimate and the social intersect in visual narratives, emotional and performative, that express commitment to the lived experience and demand the participation of their recipients. Gens Bombs, for his part, invites us to tour his garden with the landscaper who designed it, Gustavo Marina, and will take us into the assembly of the exhibition Remains by Sheela Gowda to learn about it from the point of view of restoration and conservation. A process that turned out to be a challenge due to the wide variety of materials that the various installations on display were made of.: cow dung, human hair, metal or paste drums kumkum, among others.
This year's motto of #DIM2020 fits the bill like a glove. Bancaja Foundation, one of the cultural centers of the city most concerned with bringing art closer to social groups as important as schoolchildren, people with functional diversity, people in situations of social exclusion or older people. The programming they have prepared includes educational workshops, exhibitions of works made by people from these groups and dialogues with Valencian artists such as Sebastián Nicolau, Vicente Orti, Rafael Armengol, José Sanleón, Javier Chapa, Encarna Sepúlveda and Carolina Ferrer. The University of Valencia will make available to the public an audiovisual montage in which different people from the academic institution explain pieces from its collection. Besides, Professors Ricard Huerta and Hasan López will present different works related to sexual and ethnic-cultural diversity, and the Diversitats initiative invites us to virtually visit the Museum of Feminisms and LGTBI at 6 p.m., with Gonzalo Santos, political scientist specializing in gender. Entrance is free, but places are limited (registrations: diversitats@uv.es). He Ceramic Museum invites us to enjoy a Concert in the palace to listen to at home with the Sonata in B minor by Franz Liszt performed by pianist Rubén Talón in the Museum's ballroom. Does 175 years, in 1845, the Hungarian composer offered a concert in this same space. Finally, he Museum of Fine Arts proposes that we paint part of a painting from home to help compose a collective work. This activity had been done in person in other years, but this 2020 has had to reinvent itself online. More of 100 people will participate in the collaborative creation of the work the ear by Miguel March, which is part of an allegorical series related to the five senses made by the painter. In them he shows his skill as a painter of secular themes., combining genre painting with still life and allegorical fable. AU
