Wednesday, April 04, 2018

ART-MAP catalog Braga 2017



It is in the hot and promising summer of 2017 that ART-MAP invaded the bi-millennial city and opened the wings in a peculiar and creative way of recalling, trough na ambitious project of visual arts, one of its most golden periods The BAROQUE. Answering the challenge launched by the curator Madina Ziganshina, the Municipality could not fail to associate and presented to Braga a large demonstration in spaces which are so dearing to our citizens and intriguing for visitors. The works and the artists, despite being so diverse in their life experiences and in ways of their creative expression, responded the cal to THINK BAROQUE.

What pleased me about this initiative, was the unexpected notion in this original approach of the relationship between history and art during this unique event. Involvement of sufficiently well-known names and of emerging artists, attracted not only the audience directly interested in such specific genre of artistic intervention, but also invited the general public, who entered for the first time in some of these spaces to contact new artistic conceptions and innovative perspectives. Due to audacity and willingness, one more challenge, which aimed for the valorisation of contemporary art, the preservation and knowledge of history and monuments and in promotion of cultural and tourism of our territory, was accepted.

This is an excerpt from the text of the catalog by:
Lídia Dias, Councillor of Culture

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