Guanajuato, Gto., June 8, 2018.- The student and teaching communities of the Department of Visual Arts of the University of Guanajuato gives an account of the diversity of supports and themes that can address the artistic expression, this, through the exhibition that is currently exhibited in the galleries Hermenegildo Bustos, Multivalent, Jesús Gallardo and Tomás Chávez Morado.

The exhibition is part of the annual contest of visual arts students "Jesús Gallardo", which is why the most representative works of the young people who are currently studying art subjects at the University of Guanajuato are present. We find different techniques such as photography, painting, engraving, sculpture, installations, objects and various documents that record creative processes.

The works that house the Galleries invite us to question and give way to the reflection of the different speeches of which we are surrounded day by day: political and ideological, and that accompany us constantly. It is known that we live in the age of the immediacy of information and are increasingly less able to liberate a time to devote ourselves to contemplation and thought.

It is precisely what they question some of the works exhibited because they show that young people are not automata and that they react to adversities through art. In the exhibition there is a critique of the political system of the country, the acts of violence that befall us, the harassment that women live, the economy, but there are also works that show that art is still an act of different kinds of freedoms and imagination.

The renowned philosopher and art critic Boris Groys has raised the question about "how can the artist survive in a world where everyone can, after all, be artists?" and in this sense there will also be questioning the art schools, where it takes place the formation of the community of future creators. The annual contest of the degree in Visual Arts presents an overview of what students define as art inside and outside the academy, because even though their work is exhibited within the institution have no expressive limitation.

Can we all be artists? It is a question that also generates exposure because of the diversity of works and the way we identify to describe what art is and what is not. Upon entering the exhibition the spectator will encounter "a meeting of ideas and also of understanding in his critique in a watery and concise way for his subsequent presentation in a social field of exchange practices and appreciation of the difference", as Dr. Jaime Bailléres says in the curatorial text.

Here is another approach of Groys in which it refers to that if you maintain an interrogative position the art has a current existence, the sample of the annual contest of students of visual arts precisely opens many signs of interrogation to then give way to reflection.

The exhibition will last until the June 21st, the entrance is free and the visiting hours are from Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 14:00 and from 14:30 to 18:00 hours.

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