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Opening of 'Dialogues between art and science', at the Embassy of Spain in the U.S.
A selection of works from CNIO Arte can be seen at the Spanish Embassy in the United States, in Washington, D.C., from April 27th to June 30th.
CNIO Arte is the initiative launched by the CNIO with the support of the Banco Santander Foundation to promote the relationship between art and science.
Artists Eva Lootz, Chema Madoz, Carmen Calvo, Daniel Canogar and Susana Solano have collaborated, respectively, with Margarita Salas (who passed away in 2019), quantum physicist Ignacio Cirac, paleoanthropologist Juan Luis Arsuaga, computational biologist Sarah Teichmann and epidemiologist Pedro Alonso.
Since yesterday, the Embassy of Spain in the United States hosts the exhibition Dialogues between Art and Science, a selection of the pieces that make up the first five editions of CNIO Arte.
They are works by artists Eva Lootz; Chema Madoz; Carmen Calvo; Daniel Canogar; and Susana Solano, who have worked respectively with biochemist Margarita Salas; quantum physicist Ignacio Cirac; paleoanthropologist Juan Luis Arsuaga; computational biologist Sarah Teichmann; and epidemiologist Pedro Alonso.
Since 2018 CNIO Arte has been putting scientists and leading international artists in contact with each other, so that creators can generate a work inspired by science. To CNIO director Maria A. Blasco, art and science have a lot to say to each other. To explore common territories between scientific research and artistic creation she launched CNIO Arte in 2018, with the support of the Banco Santander Foundation. Artist Amparo Garrido has been the curator of CNIO Arte until the initiative’ sixth edition, and Maria Blasco, the executive director.
This is not the first time CNIO Arte has left Spain. The works have been exhibited at the New York headquarters of the Cervantes Institute between February 2 and April 15. Previously, Eva Lootz’s piece have been at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, in a science and art exhibition.
“Scientists and artists have always faced the unknown, the darkness, and have not been afraid to enter it, with an open mind, to see beyond. Both art and science need creativity, freedom, reflection, curiosity,” says Blasco.
For Rodrigo Echenique Gordillo, president of Fundación Banco Santander, the exhibition “allows us to enjoy a selection of the works created for CNIO Arte, an initiative that seeks to establish connections between scientists and renowned artists, and which was born with a fundamental principle: both science and art are essential to understand and interpret the world, and both can inspire each other and dialogue”.