The university city par excellence shines this weekend with the best artistic works
Once again, ** Salamanca hosts the Festival Luz y Vanguardias **, the meeting point between art and history. An event that uses light as an instrument and the city as a stage.
Throughout four nights, the most emblematic buildings will come to life with the works of national and international artists. Contests, new talents, guests and cultural spaces, all the ingredients for a weekend dedicated to creativity and avant-garde.
Talents of all kinds turn their light works on the most emblematic buildings of Salamanca
A BRIGHT ROUTE
Like every year, the festival enjoys invited creators with a recognized professional career, and this edition was not going to be less. The sustainability and the relationship of the human being with nature they also sneak into art, becoming the thematic axis of his works.
Jose Manuel Ballester drinks from each discipline: painter, photographer, sculptor and video artist, neither more nor less. Not only that, he is the one who stars in the first novelty of the festival. His work will be screened on a new and innovative stage: the Tormes River , as it passes through the Enrique Estevan bridge.
His work, titled Kayapo , symbolizes a river that runs through the Amazon and Times Square. So he creates a parallelism between those dedicated to caring for the planet and, on the contrary, the cradle of consumption . The artist from Madrid invites us to become aware of the challenge facing society to keep the planet safe.
The Palacio de Monterrey is filled with light and art
The second guest is Javier Riera . The Asturian has touched painting and photography, but also light creations, a field to which he is already accustomed.
his work, make the earth light , is a complaint about the extinction of more than half of the birds on our planet and, therefore, of the serious environmental problem that it entails. This set of lights will welcome the New Cathedral, in Plaza de Anaya.
Salamanca becomes a canvas for contemporary art
Next stop, Plaza Mayor . Salamanca City Council is chosen to show off the works of the video mapping contest , in which it is intended to unite the history of the building with contemporary art of the 21st century.
This year, the competition crosses borders. For the first time, Luz y Vanguardias will be part of the iMap Bucharest international contest , in which the winner of the contest can participate.
The new talents they also have a place in this event. Students of Fine Arts and Audiovisual Communication will have the opportunity to dazzle with their proposals. The news is that his canvas will be the facade of the historic building of the University of Salamanca.
Pneuma, winner of the 2018 edition, illuminates Plaza Mayor
+LIGHT: A CULTURAL RODEO
+Light is a beginner section that was added two editions ago. Presents a alternative tour of cultural activities during the day and around the city, in venues dedicated to art.
The **Da2 Contemporary Art Center is dedicated this year to music**. presents Corvax , from the visual artist Laura Iturralde and the musician Xavier Nunez ; Y Oasis , from the composer Dove Penarrubia and the dancer Go Go . A meeting between sound, image and light.
The Space Nape will have the pleasure of opening the Pablo Little's first solo exhibition , a Sevillian and multidisciplinary artist. There will be a tour of his career, which touches on video art, drawing, sculpture and ceramics.
You can not only go as a spectator. The Venancio Blanco Foundation has scheduled a free cyanotype workshop , an ancient photographic process, given by Vanessa Gallardo, on June 15.
The Plaza Mayor of Salamanca lights up with the Light and Vanguards Festival
In the establishment The Sausage , will take place nameless , of the artist Jose J. Garrote “Jota” . The exhibition is made up of a series of photographic portraits of anonymous people in which the contrast of light is the protagonist.
Nevertheless, light also sneaks into gastronomy , in this case, the absence of it. In this same establishment, you can enjoy the experience No light , a dinner designed by chef Juanma Melchor , which will be savored completely in the dark.
The Light and Avant-garde Festival sneaks into every corner of the city of Salamanca
The **Museum of the History of Automation of Salamanca (MHAS)** joins this succession of both traditional and innovative places. will be featured Light and Motors , a display of specially illuminated vehicles.
Lastly, we also add the School of Art and Superior School of Conservation and Restoration of Salamanca . As a tribute to its 50th anniversary, it hosts 50 shades, the light that is not seen , in which, taking advantage of the architectural structure of the place, a play of light and shadow will be created. The projections will show recognized figures from the world of cinema, art, design, sculpture and painting.
Everything is ready for four days in which you can enjoy Salamanca in a 360-degree artistic context.
The historic buildings of Salamanca come to life with the Festival Luz y Vanguardias