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Alejandro Marmo, in the course on the bicentenary of the independence of Latin America, organised by the UAM
The plastic art of Alejandro Marmo will be present in the course entitled “América Latina: cooperación y desarrollo en el Bicentenario” (Latin America: co-operation and development in the bicentenary) held in the Casa Encendida in Madrid during November and December. The course is organised by the Department of Social Anthropology and Spanish Philosophical Thought of the UAM, and taught by lecturers Pilar Monreal and Juan Carlos Gimeno. Marmo also took part as a speaker in the postgraduate course on Public Anthropology at the UAM.
The Argentinean artist aims to undertake a number of new projects in Madrid in 2010 as part of the events organised to celebrate the Bicentenary of the Independence of Latin America, together with the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
The work of Alejandro Marmo is on show in Latin America, (Buenos Aires and the Dominican Republic), Europe (Rome and Vienna), and Asia (Japan). His style - using urban waste materials - promotes art as a symbol of the union between ethnic groups and cultures, with his method of achieving social integration through art by recuperating public spaces
His work is promoted by the University of Bologna (Italy) as a metaphor for development, as he bases his style on the search for the development and social integration of vulnerable groups (the children of Villas Miserias, the unemployed, young people with legal problems, Croatian immigrants in Rome...) through play and imagination, transforming unusable materials into gigantic works of art placed in public spaces to strengthen participative construction. His work has been declared of cultural interest by various governments and communities.
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