The Atlantic Center of Modern Art, a cultural space in the Canary Islands for the vindication of Africa and Afro-descendant communities

The Atlantic Center of Modern Art (CAAM) is a museum and art center located in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. It was inaugurated on December 4, 1989. Its founder and first director, the artist Martín Chirino (1925-2019), together with the initial work team, established that the ideological found...

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Autor principal: González González, Idalmy
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Universidad Nacional de Rosario 2024
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Acceso en línea:https://claroscuro.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revista/article/view/143
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Sumario:The Atlantic Center of Modern Art (CAAM) is a museum and art center located in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. It was inaugurated on December 4, 1989. Its founder and first director, the artist Martín Chirino (1925-2019), together with the initial work team, established that the ideological foundation that would guide the museological and museographic programming of the institution would be tricontinentalism. This article justifies the links between the Canary Islands and Europe, Africa and America, as well as the relevance that the CAAM has had as a cultural institution in the vindication of African and Afro-descendant art, through its museum programming, together with the seminars. and organized courses through which this center has become a setting for the visibility and recognition of Afro-descendant peoples and a space for knowledge about the art, history and reality of the African continent.