A "city" for young artists at 'cidade da cultura'

The City of Culture opens its doors to young national and international creators so they may engage in a constructive dialogue on contemporary art. The cultural complex thus becomes the scene where to exchange and reflect upon the essential aspects of artistic creation, and upon others more specifically related to building a work of art and giving it projection into the real world.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS OPEN UNTIL JULY 15t

The aims are:

1. To journey through, and discuss the current situation of Contemporary Art
2.    To provide a space to meet and exchange knowledge and ideas.
3.    To provide the participants with a place to access directly consolidated artists and their works.
4.    To introduce the participants to the major infrastructures in Galicia devoted to contemporary art.

With a view to foster a convivial meeting, the necessary condition is to obtain one of the 100 scholarships announced by the Foundation for the City of Culture to help young artists open up new ways of disseminating their works and offer them a space for knowledge, reflection and exchange of ideas.

Besides, the program includes an “Open Forum”, where 30 young creators are provided the opportunity to exhibit their own art projects to the public.

Every day there will also be lectures delivered by renowned figures linked to Contemporary Art, to enrich the knowledge of the young creators.

In the first edition, the highlights are Art historian Rafael Doctor Roncero and Ignacio Santos Cidrás, director of Cultural Action at the City of Culture; Miguel Von Haffe, director of the Galician Center for Contemporary Art (CGAC); David Barro, independent commissioner and director of the publishing company Dardo-ds; and Iñaki Martínez Antelo, director of the Museum of Contemporary art of Vigo (MARCO).

We would like to welcome the participants who will be involved in this annual project within the framework of actions organized by the Foundation for the City of Culture destined to dynamize artistic activities in Galicia.

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Peter Eisenman

Peter Eisenman. A distinguished member of the group of The New York Five, he opened his own studio in New York in 1980, after teaching at some of the most prestigious universities of the World, such as Harvard, Cambridge, Princeton, Yale and Ohio.

Peter Eisenman holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree form Cornell University, a Master of Science in Architecture degree from Columbia University, an M. A. and Ph. D. degrees form Cambridge University (UK). He holds honorary Doctorates of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois, Chicago, the Pratt Institute in New York and Syracuse University. In 2003, he was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Architecture by the Universitá La Sapienza in Rome.

In 1967, Eisenman founded in New York the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS), a body of international experts dedicated to architecture, which he was director of until 1982. He was awarded the first prize at the third edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale in 1985 for his project "Romeo & Juliet". He was also one of the two architects chosen to represent the United States at the Fifth International Architecture Exhibition in Venice in 1991, and he returned there again in 2002 and 2004 to display the project for the City of Culture of Galicia.

He has authored emblematic architectural works such as the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio, the Aronoff Center at the University of Cincinnati or the Holocaust Memorial located near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. His projects are characterized by a style defined as "modern deconstructivism", very close to the line of work of Arata Isozaki, Frank Gehry or Rem Koolhaas.

Peter Eisenman has also been awarded many other prizes and distinctions, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Brunner Award and the National Honor Award of the American Institute of Architects, the latter on two occasions, one for the Wexner Center in Ohio and the other for the headquarters of the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation in Tokyo.

In 2010, he received the international Wolf Prize in Architecture

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