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
