The Biodiversity Forum, based in Seville, hosts from today two new exhibitions that highlight the natural wealth of Andalusia and its dialogue with artistic expression. These are the photographic exhibition “The soul of the landscape”, by Antonio Camoyán, and the pictorial work “Alas de papel”, by Francisco José Hernández.

The Biodiversity Forum, based in Seville, hosts from today two new exhibitions that highlight the natural wealth of Andalusia and its dialogue with artistic expression. These are the photographic exhibition “The soul of the landscape”, by Antonio Camoyán, and the pictorial work “Alas de papel”, by Francisco José Hernández.

The opening ceremony was chaired by the Minister of the Environment of the Junta de Andalucía, Cinta Castillo, accompanied by the director of the Biodiversity Foundation, Ana Leiva; the institutional coordinator of the CSIC in Andalusia, Fernando Hiraldo, and the scientific curator of the exhibition, Eduardo Costas, professor of Animal Production at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Complutense University of Madrid.

These exhibitions, which will be open to the public until April 19 (from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.) at the Biodiversity Forum (Patio de Banderas, 16), are part of the dissemination initiatives that the Biodiversity Foundation and the Spanish National Research Council are launching within the framework of the International Year of Biological Diversity.

“The Soul of the Landscape” is made up of nearly 700 photographs, chosen from the more than 40,000 that Camoyán has taken on the grounds of the Rio Tinto over the last 45 years. In this selection, the author highlights two of his deepest passions: nature and color from the perspective of abstraction.

Through six screens labeled with the names of Waters, Landscapes, Stones, Algae and Foams, Mud and Abstracts, it is possible to approach Camoyán’s gaze on the chromatic trail left in the landscapes of Huelva by the waters of a river whose name already warns of a high content of heavy metals.

Meanwhile, for Francisco José Hernández, illustrator, painter and biologist, it is the birds that live within the wide walls of renowned Andalusian monuments, such as the Cathedral of Seville or the Alhambra in Granada, the source of inspiration. About 15 works, notes and field sketches, in different formats, make up the exhibition “Paper Wings”; the vast majority made in the last three years, in oil, acrylic and watercolor.

The paintings and illustrations contained in “Paper Wings” also include the representation of species that have captivated the author in other essential spaces of the Andalusian geography, such as the marshes of the Guadalquivir and the Odiel River.