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Institutional presentation by Maria Blasco, CNIO director and Juan de Nieves, curator of the exhibition and head of Institutional Image and Science and Culture Activities of the CNIO / Credits: Courtesy Instituto Cervantes Chicago
The opening of the exhibition Dialogues between Art and Science took place yesterday at the Instituto Cervantes in Chicago (USA), where it can be visited until January 25, 2024. It offers a selection of works by contemporary Spanish artists, all of them based on researchers by international scientists leaders in their fields.
All of them have been created within the framework of CNIO Arte, the initiative of the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) with the support of the Banco Santander Foundation aimed to promoting the relationship between art and science.
The opening ceremony began at 6:30 pm (local time) in the auditorium of the Instituto Cervantes with institutional presentations by Anastasio Sánchez, Director of the IC Chicago, Maria A. Blasco, Director of the CNIO -who intervened via video conference-, Juan de Nieves, curator of the exhibition and Head of Institutional Image and Science and Culture Activities at the CNIO.
A video of the artist Eva Lootz in conversation with the scientist Margarita Salas –recorded during the first edition of CNIO Arte, which they both shared– was shown.
De Nieves gave a walking tour of the work for the audience, which included members of the Spanish scientific community in Chicago; staff from the Senator’s office; IC Spanish students and faculty; and personalities from the city’s cultural scene.
At the beginning of 2023 Dialogues between art and science was exhibited at the Cervantes Institute in New York. Afterwards, it has been at the Spanish Embassy in the U.S., in Washington.
In the different annual editions since 2018, artists Eva Lootz; Chema Madoz; Carmen Calvo; Daniel Canogar; Susana Solano and Amparo Garrido have worked respectively with biochemist Margarita Salas; quantum physicist Ignacio Cirac; paleoanthropologist Juan Luis Arsuaga; computational biologist Sarah Teichmann; epidemiologist Pedro Alonso; and biologist, Nobel Laureate in Medicine or Physiology, Elizabeth Blackburn.
The resulting works have been exhibited at the contemporary art fair ARCO Madrid and in other galleries, as well as at the CNIO itself.
This year, the seventh edition of CNIO Arte brings together artist Dora García, winner of the National Visual Arts Award, and macroecology specialist David Nogués-Bravo, from the Globe Institute of the University of Copenhagen (Denmark). The scientific theme of CNIO Arte is “The Future of Climate and its Impact on Biodiversity”, and the Artic its study site.