GUIDED TOURS OF THE EXHIBITIONS
Picture: Sue Ponce.
In April and May the curators of the Ester Partegàs and Dorothy Iannone exhibitions, Bea Espejo and Tania Pardo, will take you on a tour of the shows, pointing out the hallmarks of the artistic practices of these two creators.
MINOR ARCHITECTURE BY ESTER PARTEGÀS, curated by BEA ESPEJO
The world in our pocket
Having the world in our pocket is like inhabiting a minor architecture. It alludes to something small that leads to many things, highlights the value of what is within our reach, and celebrates the sensation of confidence we feel when we achieve a lot with very little. It also operates as metaphor for the condensation of the world: something immense, complex and infinite that can be concentrated in the palm of our hand. This thrill of understanding the world and seeing the inexhaustible in the everyday provide the premise for reflecting on Ester Partegàs’s work.
- Tuesday 14 April, 6.30 pm
- Saturday 23 May, 12 pm
OVER AND OVER AGAIN BY DOROTHY IANNONE, curated by TANIA PARDO
Let’s talk about Dorothy...
The sixties, the Tarot, Dieter Roth, Sarah Pucci, Fluxus friends, Berlin, Düsseldorf and hundreds of recipes. Autobiography, love and the domestic realm were tools of exploration in Dorothy Iannone’s art. The intimacy and power of her works can also be interpreted as a space of women’s liberation, where the personal becomes political. In this tour, books, paintings, sculptures and sound boxes, saturated with text and colour, provide a gateway into Iannone’s universe and the central themes of her work: eroticism, sexuality and friendship.
- Saturday 18 April, 12 pm
- Saturday 23 May, 1 pm
- Saturday 13 June, 12 noon
Activity free of charge. Please register in advance by calling 91 276 02 21 or writing to ca2m@madrid.org
GUIDED TOURS OF THE EXHIBITIONS
CAPACITY: 20 PEOPLE
Ester Partegàs’s exhibition, conceived jointly for the Museo CA2M of the Autonomous Community of Madrid and Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani in Palma de Mallorca, represents a broad survey of her work over the last three decades.
This exhibition—the first monograph dedicated to Dorothy Iannone at a Spanish institution, curated by Tania Pardo—takes its title from the spirit of perseverance and continuity with which the artist approached life and art, and also from her passionate and generous approach to creation. The expression “over and over again” embodies Iannone’s lifelong conception of her work as the draft of a total work. The exhibition itinerary is organised around six thematic sections that invite viewers to explore her creative universe.
WHAT THE EYE DOESN'T REVEAL
These tours of the Ester Partegàs, Dorothy Iannone and Antonio Ballester Moreno exhibitions don’t seek categorical answers but open up a space where the experiences of visitors, and of groups that now form part of the museum, are put into play and create networks. We want to reflect together on it what means to tour an exhibition using conversation, listening and the difference of gazes.