The expository account, which will run until March 5, 2023, proposes a tour that brings together artists, creators, researchers and technologists, from the past and present, where the visitor will be able to verify that color is, indeed, what defines the world; but also that it is the most uncertain certainty, the least real knowledgethe medium that, while it seems to bring things to light, alerts us to what remains invisible before our eyes.
The sample, curated by Maria Santoyo and Miguel A. Delgadoexplores the various facets and ways of understanding and relating to this phenomenon. From science, which still seeks to fully understand it and is using it in the most avant-garde and fascinating research of the momenteven economic, social, cultural and artistic.
Your starting point is Isaac Newton’s revolutionary prism experiment and covers the cartographies and historical taxonomies of color, as well as its symbology and the revolution in the technological field until reaching the portraits of the Italian artist Roselena Ramistellawhere the chromatism of emotions is addressed.
The exhibition It brings together works, objects and documents from archives, collections and public and private collections. Among them: Astronomical Museum, Ministry of Culture and Heritage, Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño Museum, Metropolitan Cultural Center, Estuardo Maldonado Foundation, Simón Bolívar Andean University, Catholic University of Ecuador.
In addition, they include works by Ecuadorian artists such as Olga Fisch, Miguel Varea, Araceli Gilbert, Manuel de Samaniego, Estuardo Maldonado, Johana AlarcónPilar Flores, Juan Carlos León, Oswaldo Viteri and Jaime Andrade.
Through these works, the exhibition raises the question What are colors and how are they created? Through history, Color has proven to be a constantly evolving physical, technological, cultural and psychosocial phenomenon. and with optical parameters whose effects, paradoxically illusory, are part of our cultural identity. Scientific, industrial and technological advances are increasingly expanding the chromatic range of our world and allowing us to approach new ways of understanding this phenomenon.beyond its limits and the reach of our sight.
The venue of the exhibition will be the Metropolitan Cultural Center (García Moreno street and Espejo passage) and has the endorsement of Fundación Telefónica Movistar Ecuador and the Embassy of Spain. Admission is free and can be visited from Wednesday to Sunday from 09:30 to 16:30, with the last entry at 16:00.
Source: Eluniverso
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