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The Prince Claus Fund and the Mondriaan Foundation (Foundation for Dutch art) have been organising orientation trips for art and design professionals to Asia, Latin America and Africa since 2004. The trips are aimed at exchange and cooperation between visual art and design professionals. While the Mondriaan Foundation invites Dutch participants, the Prince Claus Fund invites international guests. Belgian Institute of Audiovisual and Media Art (BAM) invites Flemish art professionals and the Norwegian Organisation for Contemporary Art (OCA) asks art professionals from Norway to participate. This year, the trip will take place from 1 till 13 March. The group will visit museums, galleries and meet people active in the filed of contemporary art to Brazil (Sao Paulo), Argentina (Buenos Aires) and Peru (Lima).
The Fund has invited Baoju Wang, editor Art Today and adjunct director Today Art Museum, Bejing (China), Bisi Silva, Center for Contemporary Art, curator and art critic, Lagos (Nigeria), Agoeng Koerniawan, artist and curator, Kedai Kebun Forum, Yogyakarta (Indonesia), Kossi Hemadzro Assou, artist, desiger, cultural entrepreneur Ewolé, Lomé (Togo). Contact between Dutch and foreign participants on the trip reinforced insights and stimulated discussion during the various visits. The trip contributed to the Fund's objective of sharing information and knowledge with its national and international network.
In Peru the group will visit network partner ATA . Jorge Villacorta and José Carlos Mariategiu have done much work in preparing the visit.
The Municipality of Miraflores exhibits "APU" a photo exhibition by Rodrigo Otero Luis Heraud, in the Miró Quesada Gallery on February 24 to March 15. Admission is free Monday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. 10:00 p.m., and Sundays from 2.00 PM 10:00 p.m. The exhibition has been curated by Augusto del Valle, with the support of Centro de la Imagen and Alta Tecnología Andina. "APU" is the title of a series of pictures with a compositional technique that creates panoramic special dimensions, providing a portrait of Apus and Andean landscapes of various places. They are pictures of Ancash, Amazonas, Junin, Ayacucho, Huancavelica, Apurimac, Cuzco and Puno, large format, which are accompanied by reflections on the nature of the landscape and regional identity of the apus that fed and preserved the lives of Andean communities.
The author of the show, Rodrigo Otero, has developed this work in a process of more than ten years, having a first exhibition in Huancayo in May 2008. This time in Lima, the show has new images and a video presentation of 20 minutes produced by author. The author mentions: "This series was born about 11 years ago, when I started walking to look for short routes to exit the city and while I was alone with the nature. I'm not a striven hiker, I've just been founding small and large Apus, landscapes where people live, with the beauty you have in any other place. For me, all spaces are sacred. Even cities as Lima. Specifically speaking, Peru is also an area where traditional cultures preserve an oral message and a form of relationship with this transcendent sacred geography. One day taking pictures of a hill I realized I was tired of resolving the landscape with angular photos, but with the normal lens I wasn't getting the entire hill in the frame, so I take several succesive picture. The result is a set of samples with normal angulation, which approach the size and proportions of the human eye. I've always found this interesting, and I have been taken these photos since then".
For Supersudaca's investigation on Al Caribe!, a collaboration with Puertorican PROARQ has been agreed upon in order to have a closer look to the All Inclusive hotel phenomenon (on an architectural scale) in Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. The project is called "RESORTS, all inclusive protocols in the Caribbean" and will be realized in 2009.
From February 28th till March 10th Martin Delgado, Manuel de Rivero and Sofia Saavedra Bruno will realize the first research trip to Costa Rica and Dominican Republic. Although Costa Rica is one of the world leaders and paradigms of ecotourism, major tourist growth has been taking place in the last years at the North Pacific and the region of Guanacate, where there is an exclusive sun and beach offer and several all inclusive hotels have been developed. Central question in this investigation is if Costa Rica will succumb to the attractive of the all inclusive mass tourism and if the new all inclusive resorts of Guanacaste make use of the prior environmental achievements of Costa Rican ecotourism. On the other hand the fieldwork should dismantle the yes or no differences between the Costa Rican Blue flag all inclusive hotel and the Dominican all inclusive hotel of the same chain. In April Felix Madrazo and Stephane Damsin will travel to Puerto Rico to continue the fieldwork of this investigation. Coordinators of this project are Max Zolkwer and Martin Delgado.
More info on: resorts-supersudaca.blogspot.com
photo exhibition "APU" in Lima
Projects supported by the Prince Claus Fund