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Is it possible to create a personal work within a collective project, something made between several different artists and for the identities of all the participants to dialogue with each other while maintaining their personality? The plastic artist Cristóbal Gabarrón thinks so, and for this he has launched Ámbito, an 'action painting' project that, after passing through Mula (Murcia) and India in its first two sessions, you have maintained in the last three months , will travel to twenty countries around the world such as Germany, the United States, Chile, Costa Rica or Ghana. The ultimate goal is "to have a photograph between cultures and for all of them to compare with each other, with the idea of showing that they are practically the same".
This project-performance that combines live painting with other arts such as music, dance or poetry was the protagonist of the fourth session of the ABC Culture Classroom, which, moderated by Carlos Aganzo, seated Gabarrón and the naturalist at the table and the writer Joaquín Araújo. Both, along with other artists, participated in the action that took place in Mula, the same day that the almond trees bloomed.
“When we were in Mula, the war in Ukraine was starting,” Araújo recorded. “We are in a historical moment in which we have to declare peace to nature, because the war against nature has not lasted three months, but 15,000 uninterrupted years. There is a kind of absolutely universal language, that of beauty, which is inseparable from where nature intends, which is to guarantee continuity, so threatened today”. The result of this action was a collective mural entitled 'Flowers against bombs' created in an impressive natural environment and collected in a video that was shown at the beginning of the talk.
"The world tends to always turn towards a very individualistic art, and I am committed to collective creation," explained Gabarrón at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. The artists who made their distinctions in the celebrated session in India, are dedicated to education. "All cultures have the same idea: openness and that the human being survives and has value," assured the impulsive Ámbito. “Through my painting I try to respond to all the things that he experienced in the last six or eight years. I have realized that you have to get wet and do something that brings together many things, among them that the salvation of all is creativity, ”he added.
