Mariano Grueiro
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Mariano Grueiro is a Galego (Galician language) cultural activist, writer
, photographer, filmmaker, artist
.
He was born in 1975 in Narón
, Galicia/Galiza, Spain
, and grew up in the naval dockyard town of Ferrol in the 1980s, during a period of major crisis in the Galician shipbuilding industry.
As a photographer his main areas of work are landscapes and documentary. His earliest photographic work was "People in Compostela", a photographic essay about the Galician capital Santiago de Compostela
(1996–1999). This was followed by a series on the Galician coast (1999) and subsequently on the December 2002 political demonstrations in Santiago de Caompostela. His SO2 project linked the Berlin Alexanderplatz communications tower and a depopulated village in rural Galicia.
He has been writing about Galician society since 1994 and in 2001 published a collection of essays under the title Wildliza.
His work as a filmmaker has been closely linked to his activities as a political campaigner on the environmental and political issues raised by the 2002 Prestige oil spill
, a marine environmental disaster on a scale exceeding the Exxon Valdez
incident. His most well-known film is Awaking of the Nightmare[sic] (1-12-2002. A manifestación: O espertar do sono), about the great Galician nationalist and environmentalist protest rally on 1 December 2002.
He campaigns for economic development and grassroots artistic activity in rural Galicia and in particular provision of comprehensive rural broadband access as an instrument of social cohesion. He publishes a gueblo (blog
) in which he is strongly critical of the poverty and political and economic inequalities of rural Galicia and the harsh impact of economic migration. He is particularly critical of the persistence of caciquismo - the control exercised by powerful local figures over the political process in rural areas. He stood in the 2008 elections as candidate for the Partido Obreiro Socialista Internacionalista (POSI) to represent the province of Lugo - a province described as ridden with caciquismo - in the Spanish Senate. He is also a pioneer of podcasting in the Galego language.
Writer
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, photographer, filmmaker, artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
.
He was born in 1975 in Narón
Narón
Narón is a municipality in Ferrolterra, Galicia .Geographically, the town is very close to the Atlantic Ocean. The city of Ferrol is 5 km away...
, Galicia/Galiza, Spain
Spain
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, and grew up in the naval dockyard town of Ferrol in the 1980s, during a period of major crisis in the Galician shipbuilding industry.
As a photographer his main areas of work are landscapes and documentary. His earliest photographic work was "People in Compostela", a photographic essay about the Galician capital Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.The city's Cathedral is the destination today, as it has been throughout history, of the important 9th century medieval pilgrimage route, the Way of St. James...
(1996–1999). This was followed by a series on the Galician coast (1999) and subsequently on the December 2002 political demonstrations in Santiago de Caompostela. His SO2 project linked the Berlin Alexanderplatz communications tower and a depopulated village in rural Galicia.
He has been writing about Galician society since 1994 and in 2001 published a collection of essays under the title Wildliza.
His work as a filmmaker has been closely linked to his activities as a political campaigner on the environmental and political issues raised by the 2002 Prestige oil spill
Prestige oil spill
The Prestige oil spill was an oil spill off the coast of Galicia caused by the sinking of an oil tanker in 2002. The spill polluted thousands of kilometers of coastline and more than one thousand beaches on the Spanish, French and Portuguese coast, as well as causing great harm to the local fishing...
, a marine environmental disaster on a scale exceeding the Exxon Valdez
Exxon Valdez
Oriental Nicety, formerly Exxon Valdez, Exxon Mediterranean, SeaRiver Mediterranean, S/R Mediterranean, Mediterranean, and Dong Fang Ocean is an oil tanker that gained notoriety after running aground in Prince William Sound spilling hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil in Alaska...
incident. His most well-known film is Awaking of the Nightmare[sic] (1-12-2002. A manifestación: O espertar do sono), about the great Galician nationalist and environmentalist protest rally on 1 December 2002.
He campaigns for economic development and grassroots artistic activity in rural Galicia and in particular provision of comprehensive rural broadband access as an instrument of social cohesion. He publishes a gueblo (blog
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
) in which he is strongly critical of the poverty and political and economic inequalities of rural Galicia and the harsh impact of economic migration. He is particularly critical of the persistence of caciquismo - the control exercised by powerful local figures over the political process in rural areas. He stood in the 2008 elections as candidate for the Partido Obreiro Socialista Internacionalista (POSI) to represent the province of Lugo - a province described as ridden with caciquismo - in the Spanish Senate. He is also a pioneer of podcasting in the Galego language.
External links
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/marianogrueiro/261553945/in/photostream/
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/marianogrueiro/tags/proxectoart%C3%ADsticoso2/
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCxIDLUw4Xw
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/marianogrueiro/235308347/
- http://mariano.grueiro.com