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APRIL 2008
   

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Fundación César Manrique stages exhibition on Great European Landscapes

  
 

On February 28 the Fundación César Manrique (FCM) opened the exhibition Great European Landscapes at Sala José de Saramago in Arrecife and at its centre in Taro de Tahíche. The exhibition looks at landscapes that have been conceived and reorganised as an act of culture, an expression of a certain vision of the world, or a gesture of hope. The exhibition will run until 4 May 2008.

  
 

Great European Landscapes is curated by Lorette Coen, essayist, director of cultural projects, and journalist with the culture section of the Geneva newspaper Le Temps, and produced by Fundación César Manrique. The exhibition presents a selection of exemplary large-scale landscape projects developed based on a long-term perspective.

The show covers a number of major European landscape works:

  • In Germany: the transformation of the opencast mines in Lausitz and the Duisburg North Landscape Park
  • In Switzerland: the reorganisation of a mountain landscape in Cardada (now complete) and the revitalisation of the Aire River and its banks between Geneva and Savoy (in progress)
  • In France: the Lyon Confluence project and the Sausset Forest
  • In Spain:  in Gerona, the Pedra Tosca Park project in Les Preses, and in Barcelona, the landscape restoration of a landfill site in the Sant Joan Valley

In addition to these interventions, the exhibition at Sala José Saramago in Arrecife also presents a specific project for Lanzarote that the FCM commissioned French landscape designer Gilles Clément to carry out. The project was executed in the Salinas de La Bufona area, between Arrecife and El Cable.

The exhibition at Sala Manrique in Taro de Tahíche presents projects by some of Europe's most prestigious landscape architects: Batlle i Roig Arquitectes y Galí-Izard, Paolo L. Bürgi, Atelier Corajoud, Georges Descombes and Grupo ADR Arquitectos, Michel Desvigne, IBA Fürst-Pückler-Land, Peter Latz + Partners, and RCR Arquitectes.

The focus on large-scale projects is a particularly interesting aspect of Great European Landscapes as such initiatives are not usually the subject of exhibitions aimed at the general public.

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Source: texts – CDAN, based on information provided by Fundación César Manrique; photo courtesy of the Press Department of Fundación César Manrique. The photograph shows the model of Socos Estrellados, designed by Carmen Perrin for the Jardín del Tercer Paisaje project (Salinas de La Bufona, Lanzarote, photo by Gilles Clément. Fundación César Manrique Archive).

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