William Waldren. The Alchemist’s Footprint
Joan Bonet
68'
2021, Spain
William Waldren (1924-2003), a multifaceted, restless, charismatic and controversial artist, arrived in Mallorca in 1953. A pioneer and self-taught in archaeology and the study of the prehistory of the Balearic Islands, he excavated the sites of Muleta (where he found more than a thousand Myotragus Balearicus) and Son Matge (one of the oldest witnesses of human settlement in the Balearic Islands). He applied the Carbon 14 dating method for the first time. Epicentre of the cultural movement in...