Ángela García de Paredes de Falla (Madrid 1958) is a doctor architect from ETSAM where she is a professor of Architectural Projects. Guest professor at various international universities such as IUAV in Venice, among others.

Associated since 1990 with Ignacio G. Pedrosa (Paredes Pedrosa Architects), they have obtained first prizes in competitions from which their built work derives, recognized with the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts 2014, Eduardo Torroja Award 2014, European Award for Heritage Intervention 2015 and Spanish Architecture Award 2007, among others. Their built work, fundamentally public, includes the Valle Inclán Theater in Madrid, Archaeological Museum of Almería, Libraries of Ceuta and Córdoba and the Roman Villa la Olmeda.

Monographic exhibitions of their work in Madrid, Lisbon and Porto and guests at the International Architecture Biennial of Venice in five editions and at various Spanish and Ibero-American Architecture Biennials. The exhibition The Sleep of Reason Produces Forms from the Venice Biennial 2018 has toured in 2019 in New York, Ottawa Canada and at ETSAM in Madrid.

www.paredespedrosa.com

Graciela Iturbide is an icon of Mexican culture. A photographer who builds images full of realism, far removed from magic or surrealism, two terms with which her photos have sometimes been defined, although she distances herself from both concepts. Her images, beyond documenting Mexican life, provide a background composed of different stories, a mixture of the indigenous and the postcolonial that she herself defines as the "Mexican tempo".

In this workshop we will explore the creation of images with the bird as the protagonist, using the photo-collage technique.

Coordination: Va de cuentos and María Maraña

Olivia Carrión Arteta. Born in Madrid, where she studies piano at the Centro de Enseñanza Musical

KATARINA GURSKA.

Upon discovering that, also in music, she was even more fascinated by inventing games than playing them, she pursues higher education at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, specializing in electroacoustic composition. Psychology studies through UNED.

Lumina Ensemble is the project of four saxophonists

passionate about their instrument and contemporary music, who belong

to two generations and who join efforts to achieve

high-level musical performances.

Lumina refers to the light that continuously permeates

our land. Light that determines our open and

tolerant character, and that proposes the union of people who converge in a

common project. Light as an analogy of our way of understanding musical performance in its infinite forms, with proposals

committed to contemporary music. Essential therefore to achieve

this goal, is the collaboration with composers and the premiere of works

written or transcribed for this group.

This concert serves as the presentation of Lumina to the

public, although it should be noted that its members

have an important artistic and professional background that has led them to perform in numerous auditoriums, festivals and concert series.

Lumina Ensemble is a modular group that is based on the

saxophonists Pablo de la Fuente, Javier Carrillos, Isaac Verdú and

José A. Suay. In this event it also includes Óscar

Martí (percussion) and Mercedes Lozano (organ).

Evidence of their interest –not exclusive– in working with

electronics, are works such as "Dublin in a Box", for harp quartet, symphonic band and electronics, premiered in 2008 at the

Auditorio Nacional; the cycle "REDES", formed by "Redes en el aire",

from 2012 for saxophone quartet and real-time electronics,

commissioned by Sigma Project and premiered at the SON festival of

MusicadHoy, and "Redes de arena", for guitar quartet and

electronics, also in real-time, commissioned by the Ex

Corde quartet and premiered at the International Festival of Molina de Aragón

in 2014. "Ese tiempo que me extraña", for shakuhachi and

electronics premieres in 2016 within the framework of IndiCtivE, of which she is

co-founder along with composer Jorge Sancho.

As an example of her purely instrumental works, the piece for solo violin "ViolinoSubito", premiered at the Festival of Spanish Music in Cádiz in 2008, or "Nostalgia de la Quietud", for large

ensemble, from 2015, performed at the COMA festival.

Photobook club is an activity where different authors present their proposals and photographic works edited in author's photolithographs.

On this occasion Javier Serrano – Paulina De La Casa – jorge Lidiano and Gabriel Diaz will present their works on Thursday, March 24 at 18:00hrs, in the Auditorium of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante.

In this talk I will take a tour through several photographic series where a dialogue is established between architectural space and the different elements of nature that are introduced into the image, almost as if in staged scenes. My work deals especially with nature and artificiality, and I have focused in many series on architectural elements as creators of "artifice" through the hand of man.

In nature one connects with the origin, in it we can observe calmly. It is a place to which we belong and it is essential. In the landscape there are no distractions. That essential place interests me, attracts me. But I am also attracted to its relationship or its link with the artificial, with the creative ability of which the human being is capable. I believe that the capacity that human beings have to artificially reproduce the natural is a skill, and this skill is also linked to imagination. In this sense, I understand the architectural as the creative capacity of the human being that coexists with the natural element.

In my work, the relationship I establish between nature and artificiality does not move in the field of confrontation, nor even of denunciation, but rather I establish a point of coexistence, of affirmation of each of their realities through their convergence. In reality, it is like a mutual accompaniment of these two opposite realities. I create a possible situation, I take nature or that artificial space beyond its real possibilities.

Coordinated by: Santiago Varela

In collaboration with: Territorial College of Architects of Alicante.

We take a journey through the beginnings of cinema history by experimenting with the inventions and gadgets that preceded it, such as the praxinoscope or the thaumatrope. We will also learn about some of the most famous tricks of George Méliès, a pioneer in cinema of attractions and creator of most of the tricks and special effects that directors who came after him would use to create their films. Coordination: Va de cuentos and María Maraña

Digital society produces an exponential infinity of photographs, which demands that the photographic discipline conduct rigorous analysis from educational, social, and professional perspectives.

Today, the blurred boundaries of photographic action make reflection from a multiple and multidisciplinary perspective essential, one that proposes a new photographic culture. For this reason, since 2018 the BEPHOTO congress has investigated critical discussion about the creative, aesthetic, and conceptual processes of contemporary imagery. Processes that are marked both by the artistic action they represent, as well as by the spaces of participation where they are produced, which opens up countless possibilities that demonstrate the mutability and adaptability of the medium.

BEPHOTO International Congress of Contemporary Photography, was born as a satellite initiative of PHOTOALICANTE International Photography Festival that seeks to establish links between academic reflection and professional and artistic praxis.

Ana Ferrándiz Colmeiro, member of the Alicante Photography Club.

The MACA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante is carrying out La Merienda. A mediation project aimed at elderly people, which was born at the MACA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante in 2021, in collaboration with the Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community, coordinated by Juan Diego Cerdá.

As a result of these meetings, the Group proposes the creation of a platform to give visibility to artists who live in Alicante. This pilot project at the MACA, titled Visibility: an open window to the local creator, aims to make known different Alicante creators, deepen and expand knowledge about contemporary art and learn to look at the collections housed in the MACA from another perspective.

Visibility: an open window to the local creator will materialize with a series of sessions in which an artist will be invited to present their artistic trajectory, sharing their artistic concerns and reflections, the development of their creative process, their techniques, etc.

La Merienda is an original project by Alba Cacheda.

La Merienda is a mediation project aimed at people over 65 years old, in collaboration with the Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community, coordinated by educator Alba Cacheda at the MACA, Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante. To give continuity to this wonderful initiative, the MACA currently has the mediation of Juan Diego Cerdá who accompanies the Group in these meetings.

Every Wednesday and around a snack, a space for exchange and learning is created, where the knowledge of the Group intersects with the content present in the Museum's exhibitions.

As a result of these meetings, this proposal emerges, developed by the Group, which seeks to highlight a work from the 20th Century Art Collection and bring it closer to visiting audiences through these small questions.

The La Merienda Group invites you to participate in this reflection activity. Answer the questions and deposit the sheet in the ballot box when you finish your visit.

Thank you!!

Architect from the Higher Technical School of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and Master's in Urban Planning from Francisco de Vitoria University in Madrid. In 1984 she founded her studio together with Enrique Herrada, with whom she continues to work as a team today, under the firm Maíz + Herrada architects.

Although her projects range from complete urban developments to private homes, since 1990 her most important activity has been focused on collective residential projects.

Her work has been recognized by various awards and distinctions from different public administrations and professional associations. Her work stands out for typological innovation in housing, based on a renewed character of internal communal spaces, articulating her residential complexes as a coherent extension of the urban environment in which they are located. Among these distinctions, the National Housing Quality Award 2005, granted by the Ministry of Housing, stands out.

In parallel with her professional activity, she has always combined her teaching activity at the Polytechnic University of Madrid from 1983 to recently, mainly at the Higher Technical School of Architecture, within the Department of Architectural Graphic Ideation. Coordination: Santiago Varela

Collaborates: Architects Association Alicante

Furthermore, since 2014, she has founded and directed AP Gallery, a gallery located in the rural surroundings of the Sierra de Ayllón, in Segovia, oriented towards the latent relationship between Art and Landscape, hosting all kinds of manifestations and formats from performance and music to painting and sculpture, including photography, poetry, and video art.

In sum, these are different manifestations of a multifaceted trajectory that combines a special interest and constant curiosity for the practice of architecture, as a professional achievement that she applies from a personal laboratory where research and learning, teaching, craft, and a transversal and interdisciplinary openness to the environment are integrated, through Art, Landscape, and Architecture.

Her work is founded on a poetic commitment to consider each home as a House, even if it is still pending to be appropriated and inhabited, understanding by House that human space of life and coexistence, always a refuge, curative and healing, to which to return.

Similarly, at a collective level, and as a positioning of social and environmental sustainability in her projects, the creation of each residential complex is considered as a landscape transformation for the creation of an integrated physical and social realm. This must result in a place of rootedness, which enables the condition of neighborliness and belonging to a place.

With numerous realizations at the national level, especially in the field of private development, to which she mostly gains access through competitions, she is currently developing several projects in Alicante, among which the Azara residential complex, in Playa de San Juan, completed during 2021, stands out.

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