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Interview with Irene López de Castro
June 10, 20216:00 p.m.
ONLINE
Casa Árabe’s YouTube channel.
6:00 p.m.
In Spanish.
At the Casa Árabe headquarters in Madrid, the artist will be presenting the exhibition “Women of the Sahel,” which is the result of her travels to the region. You can watch the interview on our YouTube Channel on Thursday, June 10.
A Spanish painter with an international career, Irene López de Castro has been traveling, painting and exhibiting her work inspired by the Sahel for more than thirty years in Spain and other countries such as Italy, France and South Korea.
The Spanish Embassy in Mali and Burkina Faso organized her solo exhibition “Au coeur du Mali” at the National Museum of Mali in 2017, and it then toured to Florence with Italy’s San Lorenzo Gallery. In 2019, she exhibited “Women of Timbuktu” at the Museum of Fine Arts in Cordoba, and more recently “Guardians of Timbuktu” at the Reial Cercle Artistic, organized by Gram Wilhelm, in conjunction with the Institut Catalunya Africa.
The exhibition she is now presenting at Casa Árabe combines landscapes and scenes from Timbuktu, a city where the artist has spent long periods of time familiarizing herself with features of the local culture and the work of women in the Gouna Tière association, an organization that is very active in women’s empowerment projects and environmental conservation.
She will soon be publishing “Memories of the Niger River,” a book on her travels to seek inspiration in Mali.
The Spanish Embassy in Mali and Burkina Faso organized her solo exhibition “Au coeur du Mali” at the National Museum of Mali in 2017, and it then toured to Florence with Italy’s San Lorenzo Gallery. In 2019, she exhibited “Women of Timbuktu” at the Museum of Fine Arts in Cordoba, and more recently “Guardians of Timbuktu” at the Reial Cercle Artistic, organized by Gram Wilhelm, in conjunction with the Institut Catalunya Africa.
The exhibition she is now presenting at Casa Árabe combines landscapes and scenes from Timbuktu, a city where the artist has spent long periods of time familiarizing herself with features of the local culture and the work of women in the Gouna Tière association, an organization that is very active in women’s empowerment projects and environmental conservation.
She will soon be publishing “Memories of the Niger River,” a book on her travels to seek inspiration in Mali.