The new artistic practices, Research on Contemporary Art

The project "New Artistic Practices, Research on Contemporary Arts Cuenca" arises from the need for the city to build its own art history. As we all know, the lack of information of what happens in our environment, and the increase in this information on the hegemonic art of the West that potentialized by technology and the most media, have made this the only possible alternative to be studied and therefore apprehended and taught by art educators. It is then that we propose a research project on Contemporary Cuenca art, as well as a thorough analysis of this art form and its creators, for a visual critical catalog, to be able to gather the most relevant of the current basin art and that after an intensive process of dissemination and launch, to make this catalog a valid support document, possible to be used both for general culture as well as for teaching our art and thus take a step Our history. The research catalog will have images about the most relevant works that reflect the conditions of contemporary arts of Cuenca, as well as a serious critical analysis of these works and the importance they acquire within the local context, in addition to a small curriculum of the selected artists. The catalog will be the basic guide for the formation of a chair of the history of contemporary Cuenca art that will be part of the academic pensum of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Cuenca. In addition, all records, interviews, videos, photographs and curriculum product of the research will serve to start a basin art database, and will be available for any university student (possibly in the library of the Faculty of Arts).

FIFTH UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PROJECT COMPETITION