Sea for Arroyabe

I am going to tell you a story. Probably, I did not tell you the fact from the very beginning. Mare for Arroyabe stems from the desire to start a cycle of artworks about the seas of the world, through the eyes of business operators who made of their work a real passion, a “form of art” – Among artists, it takes one to know one!

The Spanish company Arroyabe answered enthusiastically to this call “Call to Art”, clinching the job to represent the Cantabrian Sea.

And thus a leader company in the production of canned fish – with a largely artisanal processing method – decided to invite us to take part to the International Fair of Fish Arrain Azokin 2019, at Antigua Confradia del Bermeo. Bermeo is the world capital for tuna production; Antigua confradia is an historical crossroad for the “people of the sea” and it is still a place of a strong sociality, it is the symbol of a cohesive community. If you mix both elements and shaker them, you will obtain a suggestive location in the beating heart of the Basque economy.

It is useless to say that for me it was e real human exchange, besides an artistic one, one of those experiences which you cannot easily forget: a lot of people, so much participation and a high aesthetical sensibility in grasping the meaning of my artwork.

Thank you to Arroyabe, who is the first and leading company of a long series of similar projects with fish-cans from each part of the globe.