Mariscal will offer his particular vision of the bay in an exhibition that will take place this summer on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the port.
The designer has outlined the sample this morning with the president of the Port Authority, the vice president of the port and counselor of industry and businessman José María Lafuente, whose collection is part of some of the materials to be exhibited.
For the president of the APS this will be "an exhibition of reference for Santander and one of the central axes of the program of events of the 150th anniversary of the Port.
Santander 15-02-22. The president of the Port Authority, Francisco Martin, and the Minister of Industry and Vice President of the Port, Javier Marcano, today thanked the designer Javier Mariscal and businessman José María Lafuente the exhibition that, during the summer months, will offer in the Palacete del Embarcadero and that will be the centerpiece of the events of the 150th anniversary of the Port of Santander.
For Martin the sample "both graphic and narrative" will be "a clear power and will become a cultural reference. The president of the APS has recalled the "usual collaboration" between the Port Authority and the Lafuente Archive to exhibit in the port center every summer and thanked the businessman for his involvement to "make the impossible possible" with samples "that radiate light every summer".
For his part, the Minister of Industry has assured that with exhibitions "of this quality" is "more than justified" the support of the Government of Cantabria and predicted that it will be an activity "very visited". He also pointed out that the region will experience "an intense year" with the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the port and the Lebaniego Jubilee Year.
José María Lafuente also highlighted the need to "do something special" this summer to celebrate the port's anniversary, and there is no one better than Javier Mariscal to "reach the general public".
Javier Mariscal has presented his project based on brushstrokes and has stressed that it is an exhibition in which "he is already working" and with which he intends to recreate "with his own graphic language" these 150 years of history of the port. A history that, for the artist, is also "that of the city and the entire environment of the bay" as they are linked since its inception.
Mariscal has also pointed out that this exhibition will be more design than artistic, as its aim is to "communicate the importance of the port". He also assured that the exhibition he is preparing will be "risky" and will feature the main elements of the bay's environment.
APS Collaboration - Lafuente Archive
The Palacete del Embarcadero has become, since 2013, the presentation space in Santander of the exceptional documentary collections of the Lafuente Archive, specialized in the history of twentieth-century art. The exhibition activity of the Lafuente Archive has a huge impact at national and international level, present in the main halls of the country: Museo Reina Sofía, Museo Thyssen, Museo Picasso, Guggenheim Bilbao, Tabakalera San Sebastián, MUSAC León, La Virreina Barcelona, Fundación Juan March, Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid... Likewise, the Lafuente Archive has held exhibitions of its holdings at the MOMA in New York, MAMBA in Buenos Aires, Zentrum Paul Klee (Switzerland), Casa Luis Barragán (Mexico City)....
The Lafuente Archive, created by the businessman José María Lafuente in 2002, brings together numerous collections and documentary holdings related to modern and contemporary art. The Archive currently holds some 130,000 items in a wide variety of supports, media and formats: books, magazines, correspondence, autograph material, printed matter, pamphlets, photographs, collages, drawings, paintings, sculptures, graphic works, etc.
The mission of the Lafuente Archive is threefold: to compile these materials and guarantee their preservation, to open up various lines of research that allow us to learn about them first hand, and to disseminate the wealth of ideas, acts, events and happenings that are reflected and illustrated in them, and that shape the history of modern and contemporary art from the early avant-garde to post-modernity.
Exhibitions hosted by the Palacete del Embarcadero with the Lafuente Archive up to the present day:
- 2013: Creationism and its historical context. Gerardo Diego and Vicente Huidobro
- 2014: What is an artist's book
- 2015: Around the Altamira School.
- 2016: Dada
- 2017: Diego Lara and Poetry Magazine
- 2018: José Luis Castillejo and Modern Writing
- 2019: Sequences of the Transition. Spain 1975-1979
- 2020: La Movida. This is not Hawaii
- 2021: Joseph Beuys: radical pedagogy, direct democracy and social plastic arts