The opening will be on Friday 20 June at 8pm. and we will be joined by the concert by Rafa Santana and Oriana Carreño.
On Friday 27, with prior ticket reservation, a unique visit will be offered, with an immersive experience to move between art and gastronomy. “Sea Taste, see and eat the marshland in bites”, will take you from the canvas to eloquent appetisers.
The Art Observatory resumes its cycle of contemporary art exhibitions with someone “from the house” and a theme deeply rooted in our land: Luis Rivas and his proposal “mieses, marisma and patchswork”.
The exhibition will be inaugurated next Friday 20 June at 8pm. at the Art Observatory in Arnuero, as a special tribute from this centre to the summer solstice that begins that very weekend and which is so closely linked to the unfolding of nature and its seasons.
Indeed, the exhibition “mieses, marisma and patchswork” takes the Cantabrian cook Luis Rivas out of his stoves to offer us his most artistic side and a collection of works that tell his youthful memories and the memory of the landscape in which, for so many years, he was tending his soul. A town, a landscape, and a way of life that reach us
His first great adventure in the world of gastronomy became “El Limonar de Soano“, a small chef-led restaurant, rooted in his land and the products grown in its surrounding areas. From there, he set off on a journey to Santander, to bring his distinctive Limonar there, and from then on, to move through various adventures as a cook, until he leads today “Dear Sea”.
During all this time he sought refuge from his shyness in another artistic setting: painting, in which he has indulged only sparingly, but in which, without doubt, he has fully unleashed another fascinating artistic facet—the painter who reclaims his nostalgic family and landscape memories.
In this exhibition, he presents a selection of works that connect him directly with the Art Observatory and with his experiences in this land of Arnuero. His town, Soano, a small enclave of peace and nature between the concrete of Noja and Isla, reaches us with those expressive notes that portray marshland and grain fields landscapes, or iconic buildings such as the Molino de Santa Olaja and the Casa de Mareas. And alongside them, the memories that speak of affections and personal feelings, in vibrant abstract paintings that recall the times when, quietly, he would watch his aunt patiently making all kinds of textiles using that craft technique called patchswork.
This exhibition once again allows us to delve deeper into the experiences that fuse universes that seem so far apart as cooking, village life, and painting—something we hope to share with our visitors, both at the inauguration and in the subsequent experiences that will be offered during the period in which the exhibition will be on display.
