During the morning of Monday, October 31, The Canary Museum became the filming set of the documentary about Pepe Dámaso. It is a project that addresses the life and work of this artist, produced by Andrés Santana and directed by the filmmaker Sigfrid Monleón, both with an extensive and recognized professional career. The documentary began filming in early August in Agaete, the hometown of Pepe Dámaso, and contemplates several stops through the stages through which its existence has traveled. One of these stops is precisely The Canary Museum, where the team moved, together with the protagonist of the film, to investigate the relationship that the painter has maintained with our center and know the influence that the material culture of the ancient canaries has had in his work.
Pepe Dámaso exhibited his work at the museum in an exhibition held in 1958, and after his closure he donated one of his canvases to the institution, "Child and Horse" – one of his most unknown works, which is now part of the artistic collection that preserves the museum. But the Canary Museum was first and foremost a source of inspiration for him, and so told by Dámaso himself, remembering how by the 50s he toured the rooms drawing ceramic pieces, stone mills, etc., many times in the solitude of the rooms, when he loved to work. Also the anthropology rooms left a deep footprint in it; the preserved human remains of the indigenous population of Gran Canaria have inspired some artistic visions of death, a recurring theme in the work of Pepe Dámaso.