LIVING WITH DRAWING. PUBLIC ART WORKSHOP TO REIMAGINE SAN PEDRO. Drawing workshop

For another year running, the CGAC and the neighbourhood association A Xuntanza are collaborating on a programme of joint activities for the San Pedro neighbourhood festivities.

In this workshop, we will highlight the housing problem present in our cities. Homes without people and people without homes. Empty buildings, exorbitant rents and residents forced to move to the outskirts and leave their neighbourhoods behind.

In a drawing, anything is possible; we can rethink and reinterpret reality, where the only limit is our imaginations. The act of drawing encourages us to focus more on our surroundings; it helps us to reflect on what we see and allows us to symbolically appropriate the space.

This workshop offers an approach to the San Pedro neighbourhood with the aim of reimagining it through drawing, giving a second life to buildings that are currently unoccupied or abandoned.

We’ll begin the day by providing references with a projection of images by artists who work with architectural space through drawing. We’ll look at examples of public art projects that restore abandoned buildings. We’ll provide a series of basic guidelines on how to go about creating an image of this kind.

We’ll show the group photographs of buildings in the neighbourhood that are currently empty or abandoned so that everyone can choose one they would like to represent and intervene in, as a simulation. We’ll portray these buildings by giving them a new life: we can illustrate them as inhabited, decorate them, give them a new use or project possible renovations through drawing. We can use any technique (pencil, ink, watercolour, marker, charcoal, etc.). After we've finished, we’ll walk around the neighbourhood during the festivities to see the results in context and draw attention to the possibilities offered by these soulless buildings. Finally, we will digitise the drawings and geolocate them on the map next to the respective buildings so that the real and the imagined can coexist.

MIGUEL CUBA TABOADA (Lugo, 1982) has a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Vigo, where he currently works as a lecturer and researcher in the DX5 group. His doctoral thesis, Debuxar, camiñar, deals with several of his favourite areas of work: travel, the city and urban routes. His education is complemented by courses in engraving (woodcutting, transfer, chalcography and lithography) at the CIEC.

Throughout his career, he has participated in national and international exhibitions and has received several grants that have allowed him to carry out artistic residencies abroad, specifically at Casa de Velázquez, the Colegio de España in Paris and the Academia de España in Rome. He has also won awards in competitions such as the Isaac Díaz Pardo (2013), Xuventude Crea (2010 and 2012) and Novos Valores (2009).

As a comic book author, he created Cara Roma (awarded a grant for literary creation by the Ministry of Culture), A Day in the Life with… Drawall (Inky King Pulpo Press) and Punto de Fuga (Demo Editorial), awarded a grant by the Xunta de Galicia. He has also participated in collective publications such as Contar un monte de oro (Nuevo nueve) and O puño e a letra, a comic book interpretation of the poetic work of Yolanda Castaño (awarded best comic book of 2019 in Galicia).

TARGET AUDIENCE

Drawing enthusiasts aged 18 and over

REGISTRATION

Participation in the workshop is free of charge. Those interested can send an e-mail to inscricionscgac@gmail.com stating their full name, qualifications, area of work or interest, email address and a contact phone number. Each applicant will receive a confirmation email. A maximum of two participants can be registered per application. Places will be filled in order of registration.

REGISTRATION PERIOD

10 to 26 June 2025

MATERIAL

The CGAC will provide paper, pencils and erasers. Participants may bring their own materials (brushes, ink, calibrated markers, tablets, alternative media, etc.).