- MAITE CENTOL
- VILLAVICIOSA
- NATALIA PASTOR
- GRADO
- AVELINO SALA
- LUANCO
- ADOLFO MANZANO
- PRAVIA
- PABLO ARMESTO
- COVADONGA
- JUAN CARLOS MARTINEZ
- LUANCO
- CUCO SUÁREZ
- LANGREO
MAITE CENTOL
Logroño, 1963
After majoring in Graphic Design at School of Applied Arts in Oviedo, Centol has developed her creative trajectory largely in Asturias, albeit with some periods abroad. Since her first solo exhibition in 1987, her work has been regularly featured in solo and group shows and has received several awards, scholarships and grants.
Centol's work is known for its attention to the essence and process of drawing as a vehicle for introspection and as a favoured means of expression, a fact that has endowed this artist's production with a marked economy of means and a singular liking for geometry.
Project
The result of an intense working process lasting several months, this installation draws on the enduring connection between the specific creative expression of Romanesque architecture and the physical, cultural and human space in which it is inscribed and its ongoing dialogue with the visual creative forces of the moment.
Exploring this heritage in the well-defined geographical framework of Villaviciosa and its area of influence, brought to the surface the existence of constructive typologies and iconographic repertoires whose interpretation over the centuries has forced a new reflection on their value from a contemporary gaze within the context of the symbolic complex of identities. Photographic and sound materials are extracted from the relationship between place-memory-reading and its interpretation from the premises of cultural heritage, informing a mosaic of identities mirroring the symbiosis of human collectives with the visual manifestation closest to their cultural memory, and hence their selective expression here through art.
Two series of portraits, one of the "guardians" of this heritage, the individuals in charge of the custody and opening of the buildings; and the second of "infantes", children and young people engaged in recreations of motifs taken from the monuments, are combined with manipulated images of Romanesque art which is taken as the central axis of the project and the reflection of an identification that goes beyond the received way of looking at heritage from the past.
