Art and nature are part of Azkuna Zentroa's summer programme Exhibitions, installations, music, cinema, meetings, workshops. Azkuna Zentroa’s summer programme focuses on the research and creative processes of the artists working at the Centre that combine different artistic disciplines with aspects such as biology, gardening, experimentation, ecology or colour. The main exhibition features Ana Laura Aláez, one of the most outstanding artists of the contemporary art scene. “Todos los conciertos, todas las noches, todo vacío”, curated by Bea Espejo, is the first monographic exhibition of this magnitude presented in her hometown, in which some of her most recent works are displayed in tandem with others from her early days. Raised in the Basque context of the 80s, Ana Laura Aláez has developed a critique that questions the rigid stereotypes imposed by her condition of class, gender
and place through the production of pieces that combine everyday items with actual sculpture. Prototipoak. International Biennial of New Artistic Forms was held in the first week of June. Certain projects from this event will remain active in different spaces of the Centre through September. In the Atrium, artist Elssie Ansareo turns the windows of Lantegia into a narrative construction in the form of 21 colour photographs printed on vinyl and pasted to the windows. The body parts, encrypted in hands, mouths and gestures, are accompanied by a video. "BIO-INT-DÍA" is a striking sensorial and emotive proposal, full of colour and fantasy. "Baso bidaiariak / Bosques Viajeros", the prototype of arboreal alignment for public space designed by the artist José Ramón Ais for the Terrace, is still on display. Envisioned as a public garden that intersects the space, this project focuses on the history of trees in Euskadi, some originating in the local forests and others imported. The installation appeals to the imagery of the trees’ journey as the raw material for shipbuilding and the forests currently inhabited by varieties brought from other places. The tree-lined Terrace connects with the biotope installed on the west wall of the Alhóndiga. “BroadWindow”, the metallic structure placed across one of the windows of Lantegia, is the work of the architects
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