The Madrid City Council has allocated a grant of 12,750 euros to an initiative presented by a private artist so that a neighbor who wishes can renew the national flag on their balcony and create an exhibition project with the withdrawals. Mario Gutiérrez, the artist responsible for the proposal, presented it to the call for Aid for Contemporary Creation and Mobility 2019 and was approved by the Evaluation Commission with 80 points (40 for cultural interest, 15 sociocultural interest, 15 viability and dissemination of the project and 10 per trajectory). "We have a clear vocation to beautify t
The Madrid City Council has allocated a grant of 12,750 euros to an initiative presented by a private artist so that a neighbor who wishes can renew the national flag on their balcony and create an exhibition project with the withdrawals. Mario Gutiérrez, the artist responsible for the proposal, presented it to the call for Aid for Contemporary Creation and Mobility 2019 and was approved by the Evaluation Commission with 80 points (40 for cultural interest, 15 sociocultural interest, 15 viability and dissemination of the project and 10 per trajectory). "We have a clear vocation to beautify the deteriorated image of Spain and recover its splendor both internationally and nationally for the national pride," read the request. Gutiérrez proposed this initiative as "a proposal for research, development and implementation in private and public spaces of a common element, the flag of Spain." In the proposal he pointed out the "regrettable" state of these flags, both in the private sphere such as the balconies and gardens of properties, and in the public sphere. "Discolored, corroded, broken, damaged, giving an image of Spain that is quite pejorative," he continued. "In the project that I propose for this scholarship, I want to give visibility to our political reality, to that structure that needs to be reviewed, that is crumbling, using the symbol of the flag," he adds.
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