Arches in our City

Teacher guide

 

Materials developed by students

A team from Sánchez Cantón School (guided by Jose B. Búa) identified and analysed semi-circular arches from Pontevedra in order to construct a representative arch.

It is usually difficult to know the degree of influence or “inspiration” that the work of a group of students has on their peers. The case of the work on the arches of Sara, Nuria and Sandra is not different. But this time her work has “inspired” a new project or activity in a teacher of her school, with aims and objectives different from those of Arches in our city. As Professor Belén Herrero says, what she has seen in the exhibition has led her to think about its application to a specific cultural and artistic sphere and activity.

“I teach Spanish and Literature at IES Sánchez Cantón de Pontevedra. I am also the director of the theater group at this teaching center. Like every course, we are preparing a play. The staging of the work we are preparing is difficult because in the first act, the action takes place in a room of a house but already in the second act, that house is destroyed and instead two apartments are built. From here there is a simultaneous double action on stage. The problem was in the separation of those two spaces without removing visibility to the public After seeing the magnificent work accomplished by our students with the arches, we came up with the idea of making that separation with a large arch leaning on columns and adding a wall. I think it is perfect to create in the viewer the illusion of being in two scenic spaces.”