WALL JUMPING IS PRESENTED IN MADRID

Jumping WALLS is a photo contest for American artists led by the International Fund for the Arts Foundation with support from the Secretariat General Iberoamericana and the participation of Ibero-American Museums and Institutions and Spanish.
Photography is a tool that can help change the social reality. The Jury is composed Spanish:Branches Alma Lopez, Leticia Espinosa de los Monteros Rosillo, Carlos Delgado Butler,

Fosi Vegue and Leonor has Esquerra and Museums: National Museum of Fine Arts Argentina, Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Chile, Museum of Modern Art in the Dominican Republic, Centro Cultural Kavlin (Punta del Este) Municipality of Lima, America House in Spain, Memorial of Latin America in Sao Paulo, Art Museum of Ponce in Puerto Rico, INBA of Mexico, Archaeological Museum of contemporary Ecuador and El Libertador Simon Bolivar Cultural Centre.

The competition is aimed at young people 18 up 35 years old. The Call in Spain is open to 31 March. http://saltandomuros.org/

Jumping Walls is based on 4 ideas:

”I.

Jumping Walls points to the possibility of rescuing their role for art as a tool of social transformation and, on the other hand, to a study of the potential impact of the photographic image at the time not only to denounce, but a critical analysis, serious and profound of a concrete social reality.

”II.

The bet Jumping Walls is to accelerate the transition of younger artists to the professional art circuit, leading to understand the term "pop" as a limit to overcome and never as a final stage. And while the Foundation FIART understand the emergence and novelty should not be identified solely with age, our temporal dimension (of 18 a 35 years old) responds to the desire to support and encourage a new generation of artists, due to the general context of economic crisis, not find the necessary support to get started in professional art circuit.

”III.

Today we recognize ourselves immersed in a new era of alternative communication, personified by the new means of participation: sites, blogs, forums and chats that include, have opened up a world of possibilities that invite us to establish social networks and interconnect, to strengthen and spread that much needed social conscience in the global world we belong. The way virtual social networks are transforming the way people relate to each new crossroads involves behavioral and ethical. The project Jumping Walls want to join this dynamic choice stance against values, models and ideas that claim social networks and, finally assess their ability to act on the project.

”IV.

Since the early twentieth century there have been cyclical reviews about the primary functions of the museum, ultimately, have expanded and revised the traditional collection, presentation and increased funding. Anyway, the truth is that museums have become in recent decades a place of meetings and multiple interests, struggling to find a new typology for living participatory community. What new strategies can successfully challenge the gap that still exists between social communities and museums? Jumping Walls seeks to establish an effective relationship between a museum project and the community to which it is addressed through an open and inclusive project, in which the viewer is seen as a fundamental and convened to understand part of your present through the exhibits.