Supporting Artistic Production

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The foundation launched this creation and research programme in 2018 to support Spanish creators influenced by science, to promote contemporary art and to encourage the production of graphic works.

The work of the artist selected in 2021, Regina Giménez, combines graphic elements from several scientific disciplines and a chromatic palette characteristic of Bauhaus colour theories.

Her work Recortables n.º 1. Cosmografía brings together astronomy and teaching, while at the same time having a certain playful character. Flat geometrical figures related to the study of the cosmos (planets, eclipses and orbits) are represented on the surface that recall the illustrations found in old school books. The die cutting of some of the pieces invite the observer to play with, explore and modify the work. An explanatory text by the curator, David Armengol, is given in the folder in which it is presented.

Fundación Banco Santander Award for Artistic Production

In collaboration with Open Studio, the foundation awards this prize every year to boost the career of young, emerging creators that live in Spain. The winner receives a stipend to produce work and a three-month residency in an art studio in Madrid.

In its ninth edition, the jury decided unanimously to award the prize to Irati Inoriza. Based on the use of natural materials and her own personal experiences of living in both urban and rural environments, her work references disciplines such as philosophy, literature, music, anthropology and science. She expresses herself mainly through video, drawing and sculpture. At present, her artistic research is focused on mythology and combining ancient wisdom with the contemporary experience.

This year’s residency will take place in the Madrid studio, 35.000 Jóvenes, from 1 April to 30 June 2022. At its end, the work done in this time will be presented to professionals from the world of art and other cultural agents.

CNIO Arte

The Fundación Banco Santander and the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO) set up this initiative in 2018 in which a contemporary artist draws inspiration from a scientist’s research work.

Entitled Fulguraciones, the work that has come out of this fourth edition arose from the common experience of the artist Daniel Canogar and the biologist Sarah Teichmann in the field of computation. The work of both is based on data processing, which in the case of Canogar gives rise to an artistic language expressed in algorithms, while that of Teichmann results in the localisation and knowledge of all the cells that make up the human body.

Fulguraciones—an installation consisting of twelve LED screens, a computer, cables and metal structures—was presented at the CNIO on 14 June and exhibited at ARCOmadrid from 7 to 11 July. All profits from the sale of artists’ works are used to fund cancer research at the CNIO.