Exhibition Archive
La exposición de Charlotte Moth, comisariada por Caroline Hancock, forma parte de las invitaciones que el CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo hace regularmente a artistas para que trabajen sobre sus colecciones. La artista ha trabajado en un proceso asociativo que responde a la materialidad del edificio y de su espacio expositivo centrado en tres de las obras de las colecciones y en sus posibles interconexiones: dos partes de un fondo de escena pintado por Leonor Fini en los años 50 encargado por Antonio el Bailarín, el gouache Sin título de 1989 de Sol LeWitt y la serie Deutsche Museen [Museos alemanes], investigación fotográfica sobre los museos de arte contemporáneo en Alemania realizada por Elmgreen & Dragset en 2005.
Y tú, ¿por qué eres negro? (And you, why are you black?) is an open, personal and collective archive of the construction of Blackness as a political force in Spain which can be approached in many ways. It is a dispositif to construct a history of our own but also an educational tool aimed at racialised audiences and an instrument of empowerment placing Afro- at the centre.
On view in the museum lobby, The Pudic Relation Between Machine and Plant, 2016, a piece by the New York based Portuguese artist Pedro Neves Marques (Lisbon, 1984), consists of a video made with the King’s College Centre for Robotics Research in which a sensitive plant, a Mimosa Pudica, reacts in contact with a robotic arm, closing every time the cyborg limb touches it.
Since museums first came into existence back in the eighteenth century, there has been a tradition of exhibiting that consists in showing sculptures in central courtyards and lobbies, allowing various fragments from the history of art to coexist in the same space, as part of a stage setting designed to be viewed by a comparative gaze.
Although it may well be the least known part of its holdings, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo possesses a large number of graphic work. In fact, after photography, it accounts for the second biggest portion of the collection. That being said, it has much less visibility in terms of exhibitions, despite the fact that it includes prints and graphic works signed by some of the seminal names in contemporary art.
Lanceta defends the importance of weaving techniques and advocates placing weaving on a par with painting and sculpture. She argues that the “peripheral position of fabrics is not just metaphorical, but a reality, because societies that still weave are also peripheral
Una colección da razón de ser a una institución museística: sus cuidados, su incremento, la producción de conocimiento que supone investigarla y ponerla a disposición de la sociedad son lo que convierte a un museo en una institución que se desarrolla en el tiempo.
Made by Jacobo Castellano between 2004 and 2005, Casa is one of the artist’s first sculptural pieces. Based on his grandparent’s now abandoned house in a village in Jaen
El CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo expone cápsulas de su colección, obras de la colección instaladas de forma casi permanente en espacios de tránsito del museo. Cada pieza se acompaña con un vídeo que permite ponerlas en contexto en voz de sus responsables y de los propios artistas que las han realizado.