Previous Exhibitions
Orden Inconcluso (Unfinished Order) aimed at drawing a conceptual line between the different decades of Carlos Garaicoa’s work. Works that share economy and architec-ture understood as power, control and utopia have been carefully selected. Also, the exhibition offered the opportunity to see a few project-specific works that try to define and to dig into the artist’s intention to find a connection between the political and eco-nomic realities that he has experienced.
Primera muestra en el CA2M de la Colección Fundación ARCO, meses después de que el centro se convierta en sede de la colección. La exposición proponía un recorrido por las piezas más significativas, a través de las cuales era posible revisitar los cimientos sobre los que reposa gran parte del arte actual, así como detectar algunos de los desarrollos posteriores.
It’s Possible Because It’s Possible brings together a series of pieces by Raqs Media Collective, a group of artists created in 1992 by Jeebesh Bagchi (1966), Monica Narula (1969) and Shuddhabrata Sengupta (1968).
It’s Possible Because It’s Possible brings together a series of pieces by Raqs Media Collective, a group of artists created in 1992 by Jeebesh Bagchi (1966), Monica Narula (1969) and Shuddhabrata Sengupta (1968). Located in New Dehli, Raqs Media Collective, is a thinking laboratory that uses the aesthetic as a starting point for social and political reflection. It’s Possible Because It’s Possible is an irrefutable statement against a defeatist determinism. This title becomes an appeal or a sort of manifest.
This exhibition, conceived as an event, will enhance performativity and the way it works, the way it performs itself. It will include objects, media as well as bodies. It will be “live” at all times, as installations, photography, films, performances, discussions, inhabit the space of the museum.
Teresa Margolles’ (Culiacán, Mexico, 1963) work shows her great interest in the way reality affects and directly determines the lives of individuals. Her pieces prove the impermanence of things, beings and relationship, and at the same time they suggest the urge and the need to develop specific solidarity actions. For CA2M, Margolles features a series of pieces resulting from a thorough and meticulous research process that she began years ago in Ciudad Juárez, North of Mexico.
Cuatrocientos setenta y tres millones trescientos cincuenta y tres mil ochocientos noventa segundos, fue el título de la exposición y el tiempo que Los Torreznos llevaban trabajando juntos. De alguna manera, nos presentó a Los Torreznos como si a lo largo de esos quince años hubieran realizado una única pieza, la de contar desde 1 hasta 473.353.890. Como si hubieran empezado a contar en el mes de febrero del año 1999 y hubieran seguido sin parar, día y noche, en una performance de quince años.
Otto Karvonen built nest boxes as part of his project, Alien Palace Birdhouse Collection, a series of birdhouses that he has gradually installed in various places all over Europe. His objective: to offer birds a safe and comfortable haven in which to raise their chicks, enjoying their presence. Two of his «palaces» are exhibited on the CA2M terrace, inspired by the Metsälä Centre, in Helsinki, and that of Aluche, in Madrid. His intervention has been meticulously considered, yet is voluntarily modest.
Sofía Museum. Two public collection separated by just a few kilometers away. Both shows answer to two different institutional circumstances, however they both converge in the will to critically stare at reality through art.