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Before Everything. Summer Readings
Editors Aimar Arriola and Manuela Moscoso
Texts by Regine Basha, Guillaume Désanges, Isabelle Graw, Iván López Munuera, Manuel Segade, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina and Leire Vergara.
Design ferranElOtro Studio
13 JUL – 19 JUL Failure. Manuel Segade
20 JUL – 26 JUL Tractatus logico-artisticus. Guillaume Désanges
27 JUL – 02 AUG Notes on the Old. Leire Vergara
03 AUG – 09 AUG The Guide to Nu*Speak for the Perplexed. Regine Basha
10 AUG – 16 AUG Le goû, c'est moi. Notes on Taste. Isabelle Graw
17 AUG – 23 AUG The Viewer in Suspense. Isidoro Valcárcel Medina
24 AUG – 30 AUG As Real as Fiction Itself. The Role of Narratives in the Daily Reception of Artistic Practices Iván López Munuera
The reader Lecturas de verano (Summer readings) contains seven texts on the concepts of novelty, taste, failure and convention. All of them are related in one way or another to the notion of “expectation”, the conceptual umbrella underpinning the exhibition. The purpose of the texts, most of which were written specially for the occasion, is not so much to illustrate these concepts as to challenge and question them.
The publication came out before the show opened and offers a type of “reading template” for the exhibition, a set of possible approaches to understanding the practices and works on display. In spite of the functional nature of the book and its inevitable dependence on the exhibition it precedes, it aspires to become a source for future reference and a catalyst for new reflections and writings by those who read it.
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