For María Fernanda López, curator of the fourth edition of the exhibition Art, women and public space, The opening of the exhibition on Wednesday, March 8 at the Municipal Museum of Guayaquil is a historic milestone.
“It is the first time that urban art, street art, calligraffiti, and the contemporary wall have entered the gallery for contemporary art at the Stedelijk Museum,” emphasizes the artist. “It’s important that we as women can occupy these spaces.”
Moreover, the works on display are all by female artists, exactly twelve specialists in poetry, photography, muralism, urban art, hip-hop, calligraffiti and audiovisual production.
Among the artists who will participate in the exhibition will be Angie Vanesita, a Colombian muralist from Quito, whose graphic line is “deeply attached to social movements, the struggle for water and the environment”. The Chilean Palta Pinta, a 27-year-old contemporary muralist, will also present her work. Another exhibitor is Guayaquil graffiti artist Amy Jaramillo, a student of Fine Arts at the College of the Arts.
Among the photographers in the exhibition is Johanna Alarcón from Quito, whose images have appeared in international media such as The New York Times, Reuters And National Geographic. Another photo exhibition will be led by Sellene Morán Mejía, a student in the School of Visual Arts at the University of the Arts, whose work is “more introspective,” López said.
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The poet Yana Lema will also exhibit some of her writings in Kichwa, embodied in calligraffiti by Jaramillo.
In addition to the inauguration, there will be a discussion and presentation of the portfolios of Jaramillo and Mejía next Wednesday, March 15 at 4:00 pm. López will give a guided tour of the exhibition on Wednesday, March 22 at 4 p.m. and the exhibition will be open until Saturday, April 1.
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Any exhibition of urban art is “an achievement” for López, as he says many of the “peripheral cultural processes” involved in street art are “deeply disapproved of” by several members of the academy.
The process of accepting urban art within traditional cultural spaces in Ecuador has been complex, according to López. In contrast, indicates that in Madrid, Spain, the city’s Museum of Anthropology contains the anthology of the Spanish hip-hop music genre. A closer and similar example is that of Colombia, which inaugurated an exhibition paying homage to Colombian hip-hop at the National Museum of Colombia in Bogotá.
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“Without going too far, there is a whole line of promotion, government policies that support urban art, there are museums that specialize in public and urban art,” says the curator of the exhibition on state support for art in Colombia.
In Ecuador there is still “a lot of resistance” to urban art in the academy. Students who choose graffiti and muralism, López explains, are “looked at in a completely different way” than students interested in contemporary or conceptual art, for example.
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