New York, Brussels and the Swiss Alps are the destinations chosen by the artists receiving grants from the Gas Natural Fenosa Foundation Museum of Contemporary Art
The MAC has awarded the Gas Natural Fenosa 2017 Overseas Artistic Creation Grants to the artists Jacobo Bugarín, Christian García Bello and Irene Grau.
The grants are designed to promote and spread the creativity of plastic and visual artists born or living in Galicia.
The jury of the Gas Natural Fenosa 2017 Overseas Artistic Creation Grants, which includes Dardo Magazine Director Monica Maneiro, ex-Director of MARCO Iñaki Martínez, and CGAC Director Santiago Olmo, unanimously agreed to award the grants to the projects submitted by the following young artists, who were born or live in Galicia:
Jacobo Bugarín (Santiago, 1983) will go to New York for his project “Detrás de la casa había un bosque”
Christian García Bello (A Coruña, 1986) will travel to Brussels to develop his project “Ascetisch Paysage”.
Irene Grau (Valencia, 1986, living in Santiago) will develop her project in the Swiss Alps.
The jury appreciated the large number of candidates and the high quality of all the projects submitted.
Each of the three grants will last for three months and may be taken at any time between receipt of the grant and November 2018. The grants, which are worth 16,000 euros each, are aimed at supporting the return travel costs to the chosen destination, domestic travel costs while overseas, accommodation, expenses, studio rental, course enrolment, project materials, production of works, and transport from the destination overseas to the artist’s studio in Spain. The projects produced by the three beneficiaries of this programme during their time overseas will be jointly exhibited at the MAC in 2019.
Commitment to young artistic values in Galicia
Faithful to its commitment to help establish young Galician artists and its aim of encouraging the ongoing development of the visual arts in Galicia, the MAC organises a biennial competition for overseas artistic creation grants, and has done so since 1991. These grants are designed to promote and spread the creative work of graphic and visual artists born or residing in Galicia.
Recipients of these grants in previous editions include some of the most outstanding Galician creators of the last two decades: Guillermo Aymerich, Berta Cáccamo, Manolo Paz and José Luis Seara (1991); Tono Carbajo and Xesús Otero-Yglesias (1993); Xoán Anleo, Antonio Murado and Pamen Pereira (1995); Xosé Carlos Barros, Manuel Olveira and Carlos Rial (1997); Mónica Alonso, Mar Caldas and Manuel Vázquez (1999); David Castro, Tatiana Medal and Simón Pacheco (2001); Vicente Blanco and Salvador Cidrás (2003); Carlos Maciá; Ana Soler (2005); Mar Cuervo, Álvaro Negro and Jorge Perianes (2007); Félix Fernández, David Ferrando Giraut and Nano4814 (2009); Antón Cabaleiro, Victoria Diehl and Tamara Feijoo (2011), Carla Andrade, Loreto Martínez Troncoso and Miguel Mariño (2014), and finally, the winners of the most recent grants Alberto Gracia, Ruth Montiel Arias, and Federico Vladimir Strate Pezdirc.
Since 1991, the grant recipients have travelled to such far-flung destinations as Tokyo, New York, Paris, Kyoto, London, Florence, Mexico City, Prague, Berlin, Chile, Lisbon and Amsterdam.
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