日本スペイン文化センターで「エッセンシャル・キャラクターズ」展開催
The Centro Cultural Hispano Japonés (CCHJ) of the University of Salamanca hosts, until July 24, the group exhibition ‘Caracteres Esenciales’, by the Recognized Research Group ITACA of the Faculty of Fine Arts.
The exhibition, which is located in the SM La Emperatriz Michiko room, is part of the artistic research project ‘Caracteres esenciales: sobre la convergencia del arte y la ciencia en el estudio de actividad del cerebro en los procesos de la visión y de la práctica del arte’ (Essential characters: on the convergence of art and science in the study of brain activity in the processes of vision and the practice of art). With this project the GIR of the USal seeks to direct the processes of artistic inquiry towards those activities and advances in current science that are transforming the knowledge about how we are and how we relate to our environment to promote an open and interdisciplinary dialogue.
The collection presents a double transition from scientific practice to contemporary artistic practice: one that starts from the contributions of two renowned neurologists on abstract art and another that builds bridges with the scientific representation of perceptual processes.
The works have been made specifically to be installed at the CCHJ. Thus, Washi paper has been used as a common substrate for all the pieces. The works seek to highlight the qualities of a material whose manufacturing process has remained constant over time and which, in its simplicity, is capable of harboring the density of a millenary culture. Each of the works in the exhibition seeks to pay homage to the essential character of a material that is a support for artistic and scientific cultural transmission.