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Presentation
of the book:
César Manrique.
Pintura.
[César Manrique.
Painting]
Screening
of documentarytribute
to Domingo
Pérez Minik:
Memory in time
During the conference delivered on 11 December, Ricard
Gomá discussed the profound change that took place in
advanced democratic societies in the last decade. This
transition has increasingly been expressed in the forms,
agendas and content of the model for public governance of
society, in other words, in the model of government and
democratic policy.
In his opinion, the new governance scenario — political
regulation of social conflicts — gives rise to innovative and at
times contradictory processes. Gomá also introduced a new
term — glocalisation — coined to mean processes placing a
greater emphasis on local affairs.
This monograph dedicated to the artist’s pictorial work,
published by the FCM itself, was presented at foundation
headquarters on 9 April.
The panel of speakers for the event included José Juan
Ramírez, FCM President, Fernando Gómez Aguilera, FCM
Activities Director, Nobel prize winner José Saramago and
three of the authors of the essays for the monograph:
Fernando Castro, head of the Department of Art History at
the University of La Laguna; María Dolores Jiménez Blanco,
art professor at Pompeu y Fabra University; and Mariano
Navarro, art critic and exhibition curator. In addition to the
three authors cited, the book contains a fourth essay, signed
by Lázaro Santana.
On 15 May FCM headquarters hosted the screening of the
documentary Aislados [Isolated], a tribute to Domingo
Pérez Minik, one of the most relevant Canary Island
intellectuals of the twentieth century, on the occasion of
the centenary of his birth. The colloquium on Pérez Minik
held in conjunction with the screening was presided by
writer and journalist Juan Cruz, who had been a very close
friend of Pérez Minik, and Miguel G. Morales, the director
of the film.
The documentary Aislados is a feature length film on
the generation associated with the Tenerife-based
journal Gaceta de Arte. In the nineteen thirties, a
group of Canary Island poets, painters and writers
created the innovative avant-garde magazine as a
vehicle to span the distance between the Canary
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