Mar Martín y Rocío Pinín
21 June 2021 – 30 September 2021
Rocío studied at the Oviedo School of Art with honours and was awarded a prize for Engraving and Art Editing. She furthered her artistic training in different centres and participated in various projects and exhibitions both collectively and individually. His life is linked to the literary world for many reasons, using or illustrating texts. Photography is also often part of his graphic work. In the audiovisual field, he has worked in television and radio. In the socio-cultural field, she has given several activities always dedicated to art and literature.
Mar studied Spanish and Asturian Philology at the University of Oviedo. She collaborated with the Academia de la Llingua Asturiana as a researcher and writer. She published La llegada, an illustrated album in Asturian with the Pintar Pintar publishing house, and two collections of poems: Engranaje and Atalaya with the publishing house Torremozas. She was a scriptwriter for the radio theatre programme Nomes d’Asturies, a teacher of Asturian language for adults, a guide at the Muséu del Pueblu d’Asturies and is currently a guide for the Reading Club at the Pumarín Gijón Sur Library and co-author of the podcast on literature “En los márgenes” (ivoox).
Project in residence
Cuatrogüeyos
Cüatrogüeyos unites word and image in designs with messages that transmit:
1. The visibility of women’s work. This is the purpose of our “ELEMENTS” T-shirt design, in which the names and professions of 118 women are shown in the form of a periodic table of physical elements. We are currently working on new designs about women artists.
2. Support for all women who suffer abuse, such as our design “PON VOZ A LOS GRITOS DEL SILENCIO” (GIVE VOICE TO THE CRIES OF SILENCE).
3. The promotion of reading because we believe that it is the way to achieve critical thinking. To this end, we have created a series of designs with animals as the main characters, aimed at both children and adults. For example, our design of a sheep with the slogan “WHEN I READ, I LOSE THE FLOCK”.
4. Respect for minority languages, such as our mother tongue. That’s why our designs always have a version in Asturian.
5. Interest in poetry.
