The Port Authority of the Balearic Islands exhibits the entries submitted to the 4th Port and Lighthouse Painting and Photography Competition
Maó
17/02/2014
From 21st February to 8th March, the Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) will be exhibiting the entries submitted to the 4th Painting and Photography Competition on the Islands’ public-interest ports and lighthouses, at the Carme Cloister in Mahon.
Over 300 entries from all the islands were submitted to the competition in October 2013. These entries were divided into three categories: watercolour, other painting techniques and photography. Around one hundred of these works were shortlisted for an exhibition in Palma de Majorca, which was visited by over 12,000 people during the Christmas period. Some of these works were also recently shown to the public at the Coves Blanques lighthouse exhibition hall in Sant Antoni de Portmany, on the island of Ibiza. The 12 winning entries, and the competition entries presented in Mahon, will now be exhibited at the Carme Cloister.
One of the winning entries, entitled Cap de Favàritx, features a Minorcan landscape, painted by Diana Bustamente, the winner of the other painting technique category.
The exhibition runs from 21st February to 8th March, at the Carme Cloister exhibition hall in Mahon. It is open from 10.00-13.00 and 18.00-21.00, from Tuesday to Friday, and from 10.00-13.00, on Saturday.
Art in ports
This is the fourth consecutive year that the APB has sponsored this competition on Balearic Island lighthouses and the public-interest ports of Palma, Alcudia, Mahon, Ibiza and La Savina. The aim of the competition is to reflect general interest in these everyday, yet unique, places through art.
