Este jueves se realizó el lanzamiento de la temporada 2024 from the Recoleta Cultural Center (Junín 1930), donde se reveló una serie de iniciativas destinadas a reintegrar la rica herencia histórica del tradicional recinto.

The event was attended by the Minister of Culture of the City, Gabriela Ricardes, and Maximiliano Tomas, director of the Cultural Center, who were accompanied by the new content and programming team.

Ricardes extended a cordial welcome to those present and highlighted some of the main guidelines of the current cultural scene in the City of Buenos Aires.. “El Recoleta has always been a beacon for Buenos Aires culture. For his audacity, for your proposals, for its innovative ideas and even for its privileged location, that both Buenos Aires residents and tourists take advantage of. With this programming that we have designed for this year, “We seek to recover its historical spirit of avant-garde and diversity for each and every one of the inhabitants of Buenos Aires”, the minister highlighted.

Meanwhile, Maximiliano Tomas shared a plan 10 milestones that will take place at the Cultural Center during the first year, among which the restoration of the original façade of 1980 and the return of the visual arts to a central role within the programming. “It's not just something we believed in from the beginning”, Thomas said., “but something that the artistic community, “The regular visitors and residents of the neighborhood were demanding.”.

“The restoration of the façade is aligned with our goal for visual arts programming, scenic, music, cinema and literature: that Recoleta recovers its position as an emblematic cultural center since the years 80, a space open to all, linked to experimentation and artists who take risks”, Tomas defined.

In that sense, He added that two new rooms for the visual arts have already been recovered: one will be called the Historical Room and will narrate precisely the history of Recoleta; Tribute will be paid to legendary artists in the life of the institution. The first will be, from March, Leon Ferrari. The other room will be dedicated to large-scale exhibitions (murals, sculptures, suspended structures).

The programming is structured around classical and popular music cycles (jazz, tango, contemporary); the launch of the Recoleta Cinema, a room with a capacity of 101 seats that will offer its own free programming and three performances per week (Friday, Saturdays and Sundays), and a new space called Open Room, which will host exhibitions related to literature. In this line, The year will conclude with a major exhibition on Julio Cortázar in the Cronopios and J-C rooms..

Dances and urban music will have their own spaces (an outdoor patio and two covered rooms) integrated into a set of recreation and entertainment areas such as the Villa Villa Room, the Drawing Room (specially designed for children) and the Tank Courtyard.

El equipo curatorial para cada una de las distintas disciplinas está formado por: Javier Villa, Carla Barbero y Verónica Otero (visual arts); Pablo Gianera (literature and music); Laura Morgado (music) y Leonardo D’Esposito (who).

Tomas concluyó el evento con un anuncio: “Estamos completamente comprometidos con este lugar, y queremos verlo resplandecer: por ello, en marzo inauguraremos seis exposiciones simultáneas, y tendremos ciclos de cine y música pensados especialmente para el Mes de las Mujeres”.