We invite you to the 2025 edition of our classic summer course Campo Traviesa: Nature, the Cosmos and Its Cycles. As every year, we have designed a two-week program so that, through play and creativity, children can approach contemporary art.

In each edition, the course is structured around a thematic axis that responds to the museum's summer exhibitions and to current topics of interest. This year Campo Traviesa: Nature, the Cosmos and Its Cycles, proposes to use contemporary art techniques and processes to approach nature, learning about its elements, cycles and rhythms. With the help of the interdisciplinary artist Ale de la Puente, we will explore with a mix of scientific and artistic tools the natural environment at all its scales: from the immense outer space with its stars, planets and satellites, to the smallest living beings that inhabit the surroundings of the Tamayo Museum.

The course promotes interpersonal skills and collective work through group art projects, as well as experimentation with slow and deliberate creative production processes, which will allow us to get in tune with natural cycles and their different rhythms. In addition, during the course we will visit the exhibition Archaic Futures, a review of the Tamayo Museum collection that will help us to delve into the different ways in which nature, the cosmos and their cycles can contribute to artistic creation.

Drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and sound art will be some of the techniques we will explore during these two weeks.

Agenda

Week 1:

• The universe: the black, the moon and the stars in drawing and photography exercises.
• The Sun: collage, photography and drawing.
• The Sky and the Clouds: Foam Painting, Graphic Improvisation, Sound Art, Sculpture and Photography
• The Sky and the Rain: Condensation and Drawing Experiments.

Week 2:

• Landscapes: collages and brush making
• Flora: Sculpture, Installation and Botanical Drawing
• Fauna: Drawing and Sculpture
• Rhythms of what surrounds us: sound art, composition and improvisation
• Archive and memory: museography for children, photography and memory, edible art

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Ale de la Puente is an artist with a diverse background that includes studies in industrial design, textiles, jewelry, shipbuilding, navigation, astronomy, physics and philosophy. His work explores notions of time through poetizing the experiences given by the observation of space, from a technological, scientific, philosophical, or linguistic approach, using different media and supports, whether pictorial, sculptural, mechanical, photographic, sound and film; including art-science expeditions in the search for symbolic natural phenomena, how we mean them and how we relate to them.

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