That's how it was... Views. Urban landscapes of the Community of Madrid
The Big Stove. Vista Alegre Estate Gardens. Completed. June 22 - November 26, 2023.
Exhibition VIEWS. Urban landscapes of the Community of Madrid presented a tour, from the perspective of fourteen photographers, of our everyday urban environment: emblematic places such as Gran Vía, Chamartín station or Pradera de San Isidro, together with the urban landscape of the large municipalities of the Community of Madrid such as Alcalá de Henares, Alcorcón or Coslada.
The exhibition, curated by Paco Gómez, Mónica Luengo and David Rejano, was organized by the Department of Culture, Tourism and Sport and the Department of Economy, Finance and Employment of the Community of Madrid.
It was the first exhibition that took place in the restored Large Stove from the Vista Alegre Gardens,
Exhibition
Landscape is a fundamental component of cultural heritage. It tells us about ourselves, about our traditions and values, about what remains, such as festivals and customs, but also about new contemporary interventions that leave their traces in the city. Walking, celebrating, playing, sharing, all our aspirations and collective activities leave their mark on a landscape that thus becomes the identity document of those who inhabit it.
The exhibition offered a look at the special character of the urban landscape: its changes, the permanent human presence and its mark on the territory. The city as the ultimate expression of the landscape created by human action in a permanent dialogue in which the private and the public are intertwined.
Exhibition Views. Urban landscapes of the Community of Madrid It was composed of a selection of 58 images by photographers Ana Amado, Jonas Bel, Alfredo Caliz, Nicolas Combarro, Paco Gomez, Jorquera, Julio Lopez Saguar, Manuela Lorente, Fernando Maquieira, Laura M. Lombardia, Sofia Moro, Eduardo Nave, Adrian Tyler and Antonio M. Xoubanova.
The photographs are part of the Misión Región collection, generated from a historical photographic mission, with 33 photographers who toured the 179 municipalities of the Community of Madrid in the year 2022 and which is currently kept in the Regional Archive.
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The Big Stove of Vista Alegre
The Gardens of the Palaces of the Finca de Vista Alegre have been of Cultural Interest in the category of Historical Garden since 2018, for being one of the most important examples of country houses in Spain in the XNUMXth century, a privileged setting for social life Madrid and a milestone in the history of the landscape garden.
The Gardens were the subject of an intensive restoration program by the Department of Economy, Finance and Employment of the Community of Madrid to recover the splendor of both the structure of the gardens and the residential and ornamental buildings found there. Among them is the big stove, Originally created as a greenhouse, it has been adapted for use as an exhibition hall and is the space where the exhibition could be visited Views. Urban landscapes of the Community of Madrid.
