Community TAI he continues to create art wherever he goes, this time in Paisajes Vacíos, 'the imagined city', it is a collective exhibition in unoccupied shop windows
empty landscapes presents the idea of the city as a "fictitious setting, as an empty place, without a form that allows us to think of it, not from reason, but as feeling".
María Andrea Parra, former student of the Master in Artistic and Documentary Photography; Mauro Curti, former student of the Master in Artistic and Documentary Photography, and winner of the scholarship TAI photo; and Manuel Álvarez Diestro, director of Art & Creation, photographer and filmmaker, are the three members of the Community TAI that fill this exhibition with art that leads the III Edition of Pedestrian Art.
The exhibition, which began on Wednesday, December 28, 2022, will remain on the streets of Santander until December 1, 2023.
maria andrea parra
Maria Andrea, former student Master in Artistic and Documentary Photography, del defines herself as an explorer, documentary photographer, visual storyteller, filmmaker, and graphic designer. Her art has the main objective of contributing to social change. Her work has been published on digital and print platforms such as Domestika, Cartel Urbano Magazine, Latam Portraits and the Red de Bibliotecas Públicas de Medellín.
Together with the Colombian NGO Salvando la Amazonía, he has launched the book Saving the Amazon, community development platform, and among her recognitions are the Special Mention in the Domestika Colombia Young Talent Book 2020 and being the Young Winner of the Crónicas Visuales de Fauna Silvestre contest of the Bogotá mayor's office.
María Andrea in Empty Landscapes
The children of the water work that can be found on Diego Madrazo street, is a digital photography proposal made in the Ciénaga Grande del Magdalena, Colombia. The approach is that “fishing is the future of Nueva Venecia, at least until the fish supply and demand continues. The children of the water are the future fishermen and in charge of continuing the tradition”.
Mauro curti
Mauro is an Italian photographer who was introduced to photography before leaving Italy for a cognitive and investigative journey focused on the practice of using the photographic medium. In 2015 he begins to live in Buenos Aires, where he delves into photographic studies.
Mauro in empty landscapes
In 2019 he returned to Italy and created his project Riturné, a work with which he won a scholarship to study the Master in Artistic and Documentary Photography in TAI and with the one that appears in Paisajes Vacíos. The pieces of this work are installed on Calle del Carmen.
RITURNÉ (2019-2022) An exploration of one's own interior through the return to the homeland. This work is the documentation of the exploration of man-land relations, their own conflicts, the concept of family and belonging. Memory, absence, home. What is no longer there and what sooner or later will also disappear.
Manuel Alvarez Diestro
Manuel is a Spanish artist, creative director and executive film producer at Grupo ARTS, as well as being one of the most influential visual artists in city photography.
He also publishes regularly in magazines such as Designboom, Dezeen or CNN. In the cinematographic field, he has directed several experimental short films in cities like Singapore or Iceland. As a photographer he has exhibited his art in the cities of Seoul (Korea), Cairo (Egypt) and Santander (Spain). In addition, his work has appeared in publications such as Harper's Bazaar, Wired, and Open Lab.
Manuel in empty landscapes
The exhibition empty landscapes participates with The imagined city, a digital photography project in which he mixes the modern city with rural tradition that creates a clash of environments and realities.
