The Gift
This year La noche en blanco revolved around a theme that inspired the main artistic proposals: The Gift, understood as the essential basis of the creative act. Every work of art is born of the creator’s need to relate to the other. The following text by Rafael Doctor explains the full scope of the links between creation, the gift and La noche en blanco.
“In a world whose material structure is on the verge of collapse, the need for art is a pillar that can ensure the survival of our own lives and emotions.
Beyond the purpose and use it has been given in a society such as ours, art remains fixed in the basic intentions that originated it. It is time for us to look back to its origins, to what generates it and gives it meaning, so that we will realize that, despite all the noise, its commitment to the human soul is still intact.
It is a wonderful time for returning to the original language of things and for realizing that art is the space of non-rational communication where magic becomes meaningful and where generosity and hope are the dominant notes. The gift reveals itself as the essential basis of anyone who creates. The artist, rather than being a legend or a genius, wants to be a magician who facilitates a more profound communication between things and persons, between time and its habitability, between matter and the soul.
Thus, the gift emerges as the original fruit which brings order to an inner need to transcend the world, to find valid meaning in it, to happily and fully inhabit it.
Our goal for this Noche en blanco is to make it a place where experiences with art are simple yet direct and solid, where the spectacular takes a back seat to the simple and profound, and where the individual is positively represented and affected. We seek an approach that uses the basic sensorial aspects inherent to artistic creation to generate a flow of communication that inspires people to think and sense their own role in the world where they live.
This Noche en blanco is generated with the intention of bringing new meaning and depth to the spectacle that it already is by virtue of its very existence.
Each and every one of the actions undertaken will attempt to seek a precise communication with each spectator, with the ultimate intention of making them participants and protagonists of a world which, now more than ever, needs new and utopian options capable of preserving a shared dream of human progress.
With very few elements and at very little expense, we will aim to broadcast a participatory and hopeful message on a night which, in just a few short years, has become a true experiential festival and a highlight of the city’s social calendar.”
Rafael Doctor Roncero
