PEDAGOGIC MEMORY
COMENIUS ACTION 1 TRACES OF NATURE
PLASTIC ARTS
School year 2005-6
1. - COORDINATION AND ASSOCIATED EUROPEAN CENTRES:
The coordination of the Project relapsed in the:
IES BALEARES - Valencia PEE -
Interdisciplinar Team: Plastic arts, History of Art, Theory of Art, Foreign Language
The associated centres: BG/BRG/BORG22 - Vienna - Gabriela Prasch
Le Castel - Dijon - Jean Clerc
2.-OBJECTIVES
Implementation of creative and artistic strategies to observe and to meditate on the nature in a transeuropean context involving artists in the educational processes.
The differential value of this PEE was the implication of an artist for each European centre in the process of learning of the pupils.
The Comenius pupils visited the artist's workshop and the artist went to the educational centre to relate his work and significant aspects of the creative process.
Artists linked to the educational centers:
Manuel Silvestre (Spain) (Department of Drawing - College of Fine Arts UPV) Chairman of Silk Screen Printing of the College of Fine Arts of Valencia. From his double slope as an artist and professor he has meditated, through his work and his theoretical works, about the capacity of symbiosis of two plastic means: the painting, as unique image and the engraving and the stamping systems, as reproduction and multiplication processes. In their extensive trajectory he has developed diverse facets of the Silk screen printing of engraving, the edition of artist's books or the painting. Their more recent works underline the possibilities to confront and to assemble both languages, on the one hand the mechanical registers and of photographic relation (letter and image printed); and of other the graphics and stains of colour based on gestures and with a direct character.
or Georg Lebzelter (Austria) as far as his work is concerned, the central reason of his artistic working is the dialogue between the ideas and conceptions and the materials used during the processes of developing a picture. This interest takes him to the use of printing techniques mainly the engraving which is recurrent and exploring by its nature.
From 1990 he has been a teacher at the Wiener Kunstschule, a private art school. From 1999 he has been working as a teacher in the Graphische of Hoehere Lehranstalt in Vienna, a public professional school for graphic and communicational design. From 2004 he has exercised as a teacher in the New Design University St. Pölten, in the south of Austria.
Valère Costs (France) Without seeking to reproduce them, their machines can evoke such natural events as the wind in the high grasses or the tempest and the waves. In their installations the setting in movement is the main part, the wires and electronic devices are often visible, the wires on the floor end up reinterpreting the serpentine curves and graphics of the preparatory designs.
Valère Costes carries out small simple mechanisms that evoke the chills of the nature with their movements. His works are some insignificant voluntary intents of simulating the flows that encourage the nature in such wild state as lapsing of the waters or the wind in the high grasses.
3.- INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORTS
The IES Baleares of Valencia, as coordinating centre of the PEE received the institutional support of the two Public Universities of Valencia:
a) The Polytechnic University of Valencia:
The College of Fine Arts - The nature as source of inspiration in the art
FORUM UNESCO: University and Patrimony - Sensitization towards the natural patrimony
b) Universitat and Jardí Botanic of València.
4.-EUROPEAN SEMINARS
two European seminars were carried out:
November 2005 Dijon (of the 16 at the 20)
May 2006 Valencia (of the 3 at the 6)
In the seminar of Dijon it was agreed to carry out as Action Comenius an exhibition with the works of the students Comenius and of the linked artists.
5.-ACTION COMENIUS EXHIBITION TRACES OF NATURE
Combined exhibition: the works of the three artists and the productions of the pupils (College of Fine arts - UPV)
DATES of the 4 at the 31 of - OF MAY OF 2006
PLACE: Botanical garden of Valencia
INAUGURATION May 4 with the presence of D. José Luis Montalvo (Forum UNESCO :Universidad and Patrimony UPV), D. Román De la Calle (Managing MUVIM, Professor of Aesthetics of the UV) and D. José Luis Cueto (Vicedecano of Culture of the College of Fine Arts UPV).
The exhibition Comenius received the institutional support of the UV (Jardí Botànic) UPV (College of Fine Arts and Forum UNESCO: University and Patrimony), Kultur Kontakt (Austria), Bourgogne (IUFM) and of course the Program Sócrates where the PEE Traces of Nature is registered.
For the event: posters, mini posters and triptychs announcers were made.
COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES - DIFFUSION OF THE PEE COMENIUS
11th of May: Round Table on Art & Nature. College fo Fine arts UPV. Participants: D. Manuel Silvestre (Artist and Professor of Fine Arts of the UPV), D Ricard Huerta (Professor Artistic Education of the UV), D Manuel Ramírez Blanco (Forum UNESCO: University and Patrimony UPV), Dª Lola Giménez (Coordinator and Teacher of plastic arts in the IES Baleares, Dª Amparo Zacarés (Coordinating Comenius)
18th of May: Celebration of the International Day of the Museums. Convocation of the University School of Teaching of Valencia. Coordinator: D. Ricard Huerta (Professor Artistic Education of the UV).
DIFFUSION:
Local presses (Dijon and Valencia),
Television Polytechnic University of Valencia
web of the UV, UPV AND VIAARTEM
www.upv.es
www.uv.es
www.viaartem.es
Coordination Comenius
June 26 2006
