Arte y Naturaleza: jardines de escultura en España (1980-2010)

Identifier:  TDX:3327

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX3327

Authors:  Marín Yrigaray, Aida

Abstract:
A sculpture garden is a natural environment modified by human being in which art and nature coexist and enhance each other for the articulation of a unitary message. Its particularity lays on the fact that the sculpture does not constitute a mere decoration nor the nature a simple stage to receive it. Although it is not always a guarantee of success, the insertion of works of art into nature can contribute to singling it out, redignifying it and converting it into a landscape with values that are shared by a collectivity. The present thesis analyzes four artistic manifestations of this type in Spain from 1980 to 2010. Located in very different climatic realities, Chillida Leku (Hernani), La Comella (Tarragona), Art and Nature Project (Huesca) and The Garden of Cactus (Lanzarote) allow us to analyze to what extent the preexisting context can determine, and even, determine the sculptural response of the artists and how this contributes to improve the initial 'topos'. In addition, in the open air, artistic projects of these characteristics constantly pose new conservation challenges and open many lines of debate in terms of curative conservation. In any case, all these proposals respond to an act of commitment taken by the artists. A commitment linked to the safeguarding of heritage values and also the will to dynamize, through art, territories initially depressed from the social, cultural and economic point of view.