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For the second year running, MUSAC (The Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y León) and FIB Heineken, will join forces in Benicàssim. In the FIB-Art´07 area, a selection of video creations from the depths of the collection of this museum in León will travel to the grounds of the FIB Heineken where, for the duration of the festival, art in movement from both emerging and established artists such as Fikret Atay, Patty Chang, Jesper Just, Cristina Lucas, Bjørn Melhus, Fernando Renes and Martín Sastre, may be contemplated by thousands of young people who yet again make their way to their annual music date. Once more, the Festival screens will turn into new exhibition supports for top quality video creation works of art.
And, among the selection of works chosen for this edition, one stands out as the dame of honour in what could be called the celebration of the first anniversary of collaboration between the FIB and MUSAC: Pipilotti Rist, the queen of visual narratives, will disembark with her work Homo Sapiens sapiens, a spectacular video-installation which represented the artist in the last 51st edition of The Venice Biennial and which she later reinterpreted for the spaces of MUSAC in 2006 with it finally becoming part of the collection. Having agreed to create an adaptation of the piece for the FIB in mono-channel with the collaboration of MUSAC, Homo Sapiens sapiens will be on view to all those who’ve decided to celebrate music on the 19th, 20th 21st and 22nd July.
But this year, MUSAC’s journey to Benicàssin counts with an important novelty which hopes to consolidate the close collaboration which started in the last edition. If in 2006 this institution’s journey to the festival was marked by the innovation of the exhibition format which it has pursued right from the start, as well as by the transfer of a product usually reserved exclusively to elite cultural spaces such as museums; this FIB Heineken 2007 plans a return voyage, a return which we could well call “Benicàssim in MUSAC”: via the creation of a portrait of this music event destined to collective enjoyment, the Festival will now be the one who infiltrates those channels usually reserved for “high culture”.
An original idea from Rafael Doctor and Nacho Santos entitled Benicàssim. El Festival, the project will be materialised in the publication of a coffee-table book of photography and a travelling exhibition, which will be presented in Laboratorio 987 of the MUSAC and will go on the road later being shown in cultural centres and universities associated with the Obra Social de Bancaja (Bancaja Social Work), with the work of six top class photographers: Carmela García, Cristina García Rodero, Immo Klink, Ángel Marcos, Álvaro Villarrubia and Massimo Vitali. The project also includes a multimedia proposition which will take place during the celebration of the actual Festival and in which the public will take part. A return journey made possible due to the sponsorship of the Bancaja Foundation.
Without a doubt, FIB Heineken 2007 is the edition which not only consolidates relations between MUSAC and the Festival, but together they try and make the ephemeral nature of MUSIC live on with a collective celebration in the form of this joint project and the photographic vision of artists and the public.
NEWS
Sábado, 06 de Septiembre de 2008