Jose Mari Zabala, protagonist of the "Double Museum" project in San Telmo
- The multidisciplinary artist created in Irun has been selected by Erlea Maneros for this project. For one year, the artist will be able to develop his artistic project in the museum of the Gipuzkoan capital.
Anyone who has heard the album Bat-Hiru by Mikel Laboa (Herri Gogoa/Edigsa, 1974) will remember the peculiar atmosphere of the electric guitars of this work, for the Basque listener of a time when the sounds of another planet were accustomed to more conventional forms. They were notes taken from the hands of José Mari Zabala. José Mari Zabala was also the director of the experimental film Axut, which premiered in San Juan de Luz in 1975 and the following year at the San Sebastian Film Festival and which may not have been sufficiently appreciated by the history of Basque film. There is also painter José Mari Zabala, cartoonist, photographer, sound producer. This multidisciplinary artist, born in Irun in 1949, has done and continues to do almost everything.
This Tuesday we learned that he will be the protagonist of the project “The Double Museum” of the San Telmo Museum in Donostia: for a year he will launch an artistic project in the museum itself. The artist Erlea Maneros has been chosen for this project and in the presentation she highlighted the artistic trajectory of Zabala, as well as her desire for independence. Zabala and Maneros, who were members of Ez Dok amairu, have recalled that they were also part of the rebirth of Basque culture in the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
San Telmo has been operating for two years with an idea proposed by Asier Mendizabal: an artist is selected to develop a project for a year in the museum located in the Old Part of Donostia. One of the peculiarities of the program is that each of the selected artists has been previously selected – it started with Ibon Aranberri, who elected Erlea Maneros and Maneros, as he said, Zabala.
The Iraqi artist has been pleased with this new opportunity. “It is a great honor and a great responsibility that artists of this kind of trajectory have agreed on me for this project. They hope I will be at their level,” he said. He also recalled that visiting the San Telmo museum as a young person was a regular plan for families. “All this has changed a lot and the museum is much more complete than then, but in the background there is that desire to regain the popular and close character.”
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