Art and Landscape: building with stone and earth

Workshop inside Festival NATURES’20
with Víctor Mata

 

Date: October 4th

Price: 50€ (Includes the lunch and the participation to the rest of the activities of NATURES’20 day) / 20€ (kids up to 12 years old / includes all NATURES’20 day)
Cancellation policy: In case of having to cancel the course due to Covid’19 causes, we would refund the entire amount paid

 

Adressed to: workshop open to all kind of experiences and ages

 

 

Building with stone and earth

 

Víctor Mata, a specialist in Land Art or Landscape Art, will guide us so that we can build, rebuild and unleash our skills and creativity.

The adults will learn how to rebuild a dry stone wall, giving us a technical basis to then create and make sculptures from stone.

With the youngest, we will work with various types of soil, that we will find in the same territory next to the dry stone wall. We will learn how to make natural paintings, with different colors and textures, and then create landscapes on stone and on the stone wall (these paintings go with the water).

Previously, Víctor Mata himself will give a talk on the relationship between Art and Landscape from two angles: from his experience as an artist and from his knowledge as an art historian.

The talk will highlight the importance of conserving the rural landscapes that shape our physical environment, as well as our emotional and identity universe. From his experience as a creator of works in Nature (Land Art), he will illustrate us with some of his creations, exemplifying how the use of art practices can heritage, reconstruct and artialize landscapes and specifically landscapes of dry stone, mostly forgotten and obsolete.

 

 


 

 

Víctor Mata (Barcelona)

Artist and historian, he participates in Land Art contests, performs artistic installations for City Councils and cultural entities, and carries out Art in Nature educational projects for schools, also giving lectures on Art of Nature, landscape and dry stone. He works in the application of artistic actions for research programs, reconstruction and dissemination of buildings and landscapes of dry stone, in projects of historical memory and nature protection. He currently presides the Land Art Associació Catalunya.

He also directs Dos Punts Documentació i Cultura, S.L., a company specialized in archive organization, libraries and cultural production (www.dospunts.net). He has published several books, articles, communications and presentations about the professional world of silk, attorney, apothecary, Occitan immigration, local and modern history. He has curated and produced thematic exhibitions and documentaries.