THE AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY OF MADRID KICKS OF THE EXHIBITION YEAR AT THE MUSEO CENTRO DE ARTE DOS DE MAYO WITH A SHOW DEDICATED TO THE MEXICAN ARTIST JORGE SATORRE

1 February 2025. -

The Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, located in Móstoles, kicks off the 2025 exhibition season with a show dedicated to the Mexican artist Jorge Satorre. Titled Ría (Ria) and curated by Latitudes, a collective formed by Mariana Cánepa Luna and Max Andrews, the exhibition charts more than a decade of this creator’s artistic practice and will be on display from today until 31 August with free admission.

The artistic investigations of Jorge Satorre (Mexico City, 1979) have consistently focused on experimenting with the boundaries of different disciplines related to drawing, although increasingly associated with a sculptural practice that establishes a dialogue with the contexts where he produces and exhibits his work.

Ría features work produced between 2013 and 2025, a period that Satorre views as a process of calibrating the distance between the forms and references that make up his oeuvre. It also implies a certain degree of introspection, allowing him to question the scale of personal experience in relation to broader cultural, political or social contexts.

His recent projects usually imply acts of transformation and subversion stemming from elemental actions such as moulding, stamping, forging, casting and breaking, which he applies to materials and views as an intrinsic part of the process in order to gradually distance himself from the place where the ideas originate.

Just as hands and tools intertwine in Satorre’s work, so too the intimate intertwines with the industrial, the functional with misuse, anecdotes with archetypes, and remembered events with imagined ones.

Accompanying this exhibition is Juego infinito de cuerdas bajo el sol (Infinite String Game Under the Sun), a graphic parasitisation by the illustrator María Medem that aims to occupy the non-exhibition spaces at the Museo CA2M and is materialised through mural drawings, embroideries on fabric and piped music.

Medem’s imaginary universe will be reflected in different parts of the museum, creating a sensory and experimental atmosphere in which the boundaries between real, strange and ambiguous are blurred and acquire different forms.

The exhibition marks the desire of the Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo to grant greater prominence in its programme of activities to the graphic language, comics, self-publishing and fanzines. More information at https://www.ca2m.org/.