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Art Hotel displays works of eight art galleries in the region (15/05/2008)

Mucho Mas Mayo festival, organized by the Youth Council of the City of Cartagena, prepared by the hotel NH Cartagena and with the participation of the Department of Culture and the Art Galleries Association of the Region of Murcia, Art Fair Hotel, in which eight galleries of the Region of Murcia-three of Cartagena, Murcia-5, transformed the fifth floor of the hostel and turn it into a large exhibition hall.

The fair will be open from 16 to 18 May and in it, the eight galleries will display pieces from their artists with the opportunity for visitors to purchase these works.

Art Nine, Bambara, Bisel, Roll Back, Fernando Guerao, Gigarpe, La Aurora and Ribera, the galleries will be participating in this first edition of Art Hotel.

The NH and will become a great center of art that look at trends of contemporary art.

The gallery transform every room of that floor to give an unusual appearance.

This plant was chosen because it has the best hotel suites, with each individual terrace, will also be targeted by the intervention of the galleries, with exceptional views over the port area.

The rooms, therefore, cease to be, to become exhibition halls.

As highlighted by the councilman of Youth, Javier Herrero, the aim of this exhibition is to transform a conventional space in a center for three days breathe art on all sides.

The corridors, rooms, bathrooms and terraces will be transformed into a great avant-garde art museum, an exhibition of paintings, photography, sculpture, video creations and installations.

In this sense, the galleries are free to arrange the works in the space of the room, keeping the furniture in the space.

Visitors will tour the plant and the hotel and know firsthand the ways in which art takes place today.

The exhibitions will showcase works by Spanish greats such as Picasso, Tapies, Miro, established artists from the region of Murcia, as Dora Catarineu or Juan Bautista Sanz, and young talents like Paul Alone or Katarzyna Rogowicz, among others.

The organization will publish in May More Than 800 catalogs and 3,000 postcards on Art Hotel.

The festival will begin Friday, May 16 at 19:30 hours, and that day will be open until 24:00 h.

The hours of Saturday, April 17, is from 11:00 h.

to 24:00 h.

and Sunday, April 18th from 11:00 to 14:00.

This is the first experience of this kind to be held in the Autonomous Community, although there is a tradition in other countries like France, USA, England and other regions of Spain.

As the prestigious New Art in Barcelona, held in the Majestic hotel, known as the 'art hotel'.

For the NH hotel chain, Cartagena is the first of its kind, although with more than 100 stores across Spain.

The presentation ceremony was attended by the councilman of Youth, Javier Herrero, the Councillor for Culture, Rosario Montero, the representative of the Association of galleys of the Murcia Region, Luis Artes, and the director of the NH Cartagena, Eva Gargallo.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena

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