{"product_id":"fundacion-cesar-manrique-lanzarote-von-simon-marchan-fiz","title":"Fundación César Manrique, Lanzarote","description":"The island of Lanzarote has become one of the favourite tourism\ndestinations in the Canary Islands over the last few decades. However,\nour interest is more one of artistic than of touristic discovery,\nand this would be virtually unthinkable without the work of an artist\nwho fell in love with this wonderful paradise. We refer to César\nManrique (1919–1992), who was able to see and reveal to us the\nunique beauties arising out of the happy marriage of the four elements\nbelieved by the Greeks to form the whole of creation: air,\nearth, fire and water.\nIn fact, after returning to his island in 1968 after a period spent\nin New York, Manrique dedicated himself passionately to realizing\nhis utopia, to renew Lanzarote out of his own sources. Among\nManriques best known works on Lanzarote are the Casa Museo\ndel Campesino, the Jameos del Agua, the Mirador del Río, the\nCactus Garden and his own house in the Taro de Tahíche.\nManrique’s house in Taro de Tahíche, which nowadays houses\nthe César Manrique Foundation, can be considered as a »work in\nprogress« as it was built over a period of almost 25 years and was\nstill not completed upon the artist’s death. Arising out of the five interconnected\nvolcanic bubbles of the underground storey, it has\nbecome a metaphor for the amorous meeting of man with Mother\nEarth, this latter being understood, to use Bruno Taut’s expression,\nas »a fine home for living«. The spaces on the upper floor can be\nvirtually mistaken for the white cubic buildings dispersed throughout\nthe island. But when we cross their thresholds, we have the\nunique feeling that here something was created which is really new.\nIn fact, Manrique – enemy in equal measure of the »pastiche« of\nregionalism and the off-key International Style blind to differentiation\n– sifted the vernacular with certain modern filters such as\nFrank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe or Le Corbusier, and at\nthe same time gave it such a specific stamp that the final result\nbecame indigenous and unmistakeable.\nSimón Marchán Fiz is professor of aesthetics in Madrid. Like\nMarchán Fiz Pedro Martinez de Albornoz lives in Madrid. The photographs\nshown in this book are the best photographic interpretation\nof one of Manrique’s work up to now.\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783930698165\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9783930698165","offer_id":39463318159453,"sku":"9783930698165","price":36.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/068a2f3a-3c9e-4cf8-92b3-a68f30984cbd.jpg?v=1781586819","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/fundacion-cesar-manrique-lanzarote-von-simon-marchan-fiz","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}