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Care recipients at island's day centre lend hand preparing for Qué Celeste festival

foto-cdd-que-celeste-3Islanders at Formentera's dependent care facility, or centre de dia, are teaming up this week with members of environmental group Que Celeste to repurpose some of the found objects that surfaced during the group's coastal cleanups at ses Illetes, es Carnatge and es Ram.

The idea is to give a new, decorative use to various objects through a kind of “artistic recycling” aimed at fostering creativity and personal autonomy among individuals at the day centre.

Participants are rebranding discarded plastic bottles as jellyfish which will function as decorative lights at the upcoming Que Celeste festival. Organisers of the festival, which is scheduled to take over Sant Ferran's church-front plaza September 21 and 22, say the event is about educating islanders and tourists about the importance of preserving and caring for the environment.

Sculptures by Laura Maresc in spotlight at Centre Gabrielet from August 7-17

laura maresc 2The Formentera Council's department of culture announces that from today until Friday, August 17, the exhibition space at Centre Gabrielet will host a display of sculpted work by Laura Maresc.

'I Sea'
Drawing influences from arte povera and land art, Maresc's “I Sea” offers a perspective situated halfway between the abstract and figurative languages which are inspired by the island, playing with the island's chromatic colour scales and its landscape in motion.

Explains the artist, “nature is a mirror revealing the most profound in each of us. Skin becomes permeable, and we understand what is going on with those metaphors on the other side of our eyelids”. To hear Maresc tell it, Formentera is “constant horizon”. “It's opening”, she says, “Three-hundred sixty degrees of inputs from every one of the senses, inspiring that beautiful alchemy of feeling and expression”.

Born in the Andorran Pyrenees, Maresc says she has long maintained a deep connection to her natural surroundings. “Whether as a sculptor or performance-oriented dancer, I've always had a fascination for feeling out the boundaries between the body and its surroundings”, she says.

“I Sea” opens this evening at seven and will remain on view every day from 10.00am to 2.00pm and 5.00pm to 9.00pm in the Centre Gabrielet gallery.

Time for holidays, maintenance as Formentera's vehicle inspection service takes annual leave

foto-itv-formentera1The Formentera Council announces that the island's vehicle inspection service (ITV) will cease operations for the month from August 15 to September 15. The break means time off for staff and a chance to take care of certain maintenance around the facility. Employees alternated morning and afternoon shifts from April to July, leaving the service without a single name on its wait list as employees prepare to clock off for the holidays.

Formentera accepts critiques of Citizen's Information Office

Foto oac atencio al publicThe Formentera Council accepts the PSOE's critique of wait times at the OAC (in August users of the municipal service reported waits of up to an hour) and wishes to make the corresponding apologies to islanders and local political parties. Reprieve is expected in the days to come, when additional staffers will begin duty. The administration began a search for temporary supply staff on June 7. A total of 51 islanders answered the call, with 17 ultimately making it to the selection process, which came to an end on Wednesday, August 1. Officials anticipate names of winning candidates will be announced on Monday August 6. While thanking islanders for the patience and understanding, the Formentera Council also wishes to applaud OAC staff for their professionalism. Reinforcements are on the way.

As for the office's digital equivalent, the Virtual Citizen's Information Office (or OVAC), no incidents have been reported in thirty days. 

Formentera publishes retrospective of Ajuntament Vell gallery's featured shows

foto cataleg 2018 2.jpgThe Formentera Council's culture department has unveiled a look-back at the work displayed in the Ajuntament Vell exhibition space throughout 2017. The department says the current catalogue –of individual exhibitions, group productions, selections of art from associations and social-action organisations– offers readers "a glimpse of the artistry which has graced Formentera's signature gallery". Artists and other cultural advocates on the island had agitated expressly for such a retrospective.

Cutting across the assorted selections of painted work, sculptures, photography, architecture and craft creations is a leitmotiv of deep ties to Formentera, and the jumping-off point they provide for looking at and deciphering the world around us.

Take, for instance, the paintings and illustrations of Rocio Fraile, Aida Miró, Ana Celada, Robert Hawkins, Elena Montesinos, Julie Aubrun; collages by Jorge Traverso, and paintings and jewellery from Raquel Caramazana and Gustavo Fernández Molinari, of Amaicha.

Photos hold a place in the spotlight, too, as evidenced with the catalogue's chronicling of the now classic Beni Trutmann contest, Espai F_'s display of work by photographer Jordi Sarrà and the abstract images of Fabiana Schulz.

On International Women's Day the Sala housed selected submissions to a photography contest focused on breastfeeding on Eivissa and Formentera. Isa Sanz, for her part, would later put on a photo show commemorating the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Then there was the gallery's initiative with Fons Pitiús de Cooperació to present photographer Alex Oriol's reckoning on the Syrian exodus.

Sala selections are uniquely diverse affairs, as seen with a Manolo de Oya (Espai F_)-commissioned installation by Michel Mouffe, a multimedia exhibition by Wolff Kahlen, textile creations by Antonieta Airoldi, tapistries and paintings by Lia Bottanelli, Es Far's group show and La primera pedra, an exhibition brokered by Maria Bofill, Pau Sureda, the Museu Arqueològic d'Eivissa i Formentera and Formentera's office of patrimony.

The Ajuntament Vell was also the scene of a show on language diversity presented by the island's committee for language normalisation and students of IES Marc Ferrer, as well as work from Teresa Matilla's students of painting and the workworking disciples of Aaron Keydar.

At year's end, the gallery welcomed another instant classic – a Christmas exhibition showcasing the work of several breakout local artists.

The Ajuntament Vell, operated by the Formentera Department of Culture, Education and Patrimony and today boasting a nearly twenty-year history of temporary shows throughout the year, is aimed at promoting and stimulating artistic expression.

4 August 2018
Department of Communication
Consell de Formentera

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