IBDP ART EXHIBITION

We are delighted to present our 2022 IBDP Visual Arts exhibition.

Each student's finished process is extremely demanding, as they have managed to become genuinely interested through serious and sustained research, staying extremely curious from day one. They developed skills to communicate their ideas while keeping a reflective mindset. By getting out of their comfort zone, they were able to approach ideas without a preconceived result, being capable of using mistakes as opportunities for discovering unexpected outcomes. These are some of the very necessary 21st century skills that we need to develop when we choose Visual Arts in the Diploma Programme.  

Departing from the fact that all art is contemporary to its time, this year's exhibition presents our audience with opportunities to reflect on issues that concern us all.  Every year, the exhibition offers opportunities to spark dialogues on other IB subjects, (IBDP and PYP), and we are happy that it will remain until 7^th of October.

We would like to share the words of contemporary artist Tania Bruguera explaining the very important role of an artist:

 "I know everybody can imagine things, and anybody can have a vision, but I feel that artists are more eloquent in knowing how to pick what works and what has the idea of beauty. By beauty, I mean a landscape of ethics from very different places. An artist is like a sponge that is open to everything and anything, all the time, no matter if it comes from a physicist’s experiment, a lawyer’s case, or a politician. Artists have the capability to understand intuitively what can work and what can affect people because it’s in their nature to be extremely open to being susceptible."

Mariana Valdés - Visual Arts teacher