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Carsten Höller, one of the leading artists on the international contemporary art scene, has been chosen for the exhibition that will launch the Botín Centre in summer 2014, as was announced in Santander by Vicente Todolí, president of the Centre’s Art Committee.
It will be the first major show in Spain devoted to Carsten Höller, an artist who seeks an interaction between the space and the public, provoking visitors’ emotions in such a way as to make them a part of the work. It is the best example of an art which, according to Paloma Botín, “makes people better”.
The Botín Centre, which will be directed by Fátima Sánchez, represents the definitive step forwards for the Visual Arts Programme the Botín Foundation has been running for over 25 years. The programme has come to be regarded as the most complete and ambitious of its kind on the Spanish art scene and Vicente Todolí, president of the Visual Arts Committee, described its main areas of work today.
These areas of work are: training in the form of grants and visual arts workshops; researching and cataloguing of Spanish Masters’ drawings, and increasing public awareness through exhibitions produced by the Botín Foundation in the aforesaid areas. All of this, said Vicente Todolí, is combined with the Foundation’s own art Collection, which features the work of artists, grant awardees and workshop leaders.
Thus far the Botín Foundation has had Villa Iris as a venue for its art exhibitions. Indeed, Villa Iris will continue to serve arts education, and the amount of workshops held there each year will be increased to two. However, in summer 2014, some 2,500 metres will be made available to the Foundation in two new spaces inside the Botín Centre. This will bolster its Visual Arts programme and increase not just the amount of exhibitions, but also their size, in this manner fulfilling the objectives it has set itself with ambitious self-produced exhibitions.
via fundacionbotin.org