Tenerife Fine Arts Circle Opens Two Centenary Exhibitions

The Tenerife Fine Arts Circle, located at 43 Calle del Castillo in the capital, unveiled two new exhibitions this Thursday. These shows are part of the Circle's centenary celebrations.

One is a solo exhibition by Tenerife artist Estefanía B. Flores, titled It Could Happen Again That You Let Yourself Be Transformed into Another Person. The other is a group exhibition, Knots and Tangles 2/5, featuring works by Adrián Alemán, Carlos Rivero, Pérez y Requena, and Teresa Correa. Both exhibitions will be open to the public until January 17.

Pepe Valladares, president of the cultural institution; Octavio Zaya, curator of the Fine Arts Circle's centenary art project; and artist Estefanía B. Flores introduced these new initiatives yesterday. Valladares commented that, similar to artist Idaira del Castillo, Flores is a young Canarian artist who embodies the Circle's new phase. He added, "These works align very well with our commitment: we must be daring; that is our approach."

Octavio Zaya provided insights into the core themes of both exhibitions. Speaking about the artists in Knots and Tangles 2/5, the second of five group shows in the series, Zaya described Adrián Alemán as "an expert in raiding historical archives to bring us closer to the same events in a different way." He noted that Teresa Correa, "a well-known photographer focused on landscapes and territory, proposes three busts of indigenous faces, in a critique of racism and colonization."

Pérez y Requena, Zaya continued, "exhibit an endearing poetics of the ruins and waste of our urban architecture, of the poorest and simplest aspects of some ruins or shacks. They present them as if trying to heal wounds." Regarding Carlos Rivero, Zaya explained that "through his painting, we see Zurbarán, Goya, Miró..., not due to influence, but because of his own obsessions, dreams, nightmares, and his strange character. All from a personal experience between the dreamlike and the esoteric."

For Estefanía B. Flores' solo exhibition, the international curator highlighted that "everything stems from the process in which one energy transforms into another. From digital media to the physical, using wood, sand, salt, or resin, and forming entities, hooves, body parts to create a personal mythology. At the same time, it questions us about our condition within entertainment culture."