3_Eras is an unpublished text by José Luis Brea based on the film version of the book Las tres eras de la imagen. This film, made by María Virginia Jaua and José Luis Brea, included visual and sonic imagery.
The CA2M Collection VI revolves this time around the idea of art as a means to get closer to reality, as a space to critically gaze the past to finally understand the present as well as to imagine the future. The selected artworks bring us closer to stories, wether real or not, which encourage us to reflect on these premises.
Pop Politics: Activism at 33 Revolutions exhibition raises a claim of specific politics forms produced in Pop music through contemporary art practices. A way of addressing the current cultural production from a specific ideological way through personal empowerment practices, shared spaces, viewer´s emancipated gaze, mass media and an approach and reconnection of diverse information.
Collection V focuses on the experience of the viewer within the exhibition space through a selection of works from the CA2M collection which, inherited from the minimalist and conceptual trends from the sixties, addresses a concern for the phenomenological relation with the viewer and the space that hosts them.
Wastelands, construction materials, layers from abandoned cities within their proper development process or whatever is underneath, are just some of the subjects introduced in Almarcegui’s work and presented herein as a retrospective contextualization of the art work specially created for CA2M entitled Madrid Underneath.
Telling everything, Not Knowing How comes around to the view of narrativity with the intention of asking what can be done and what can be told from the art side, which role plays the emotion within the narrative and also which fiction, reality, political and social contents appear within the contemporary creation.
No Heroics, Please is the title of a posthumous compilation of short stories written by the American novelist and poet Raymond Carver during his youth. The exhibition, does credit to the book, focus on the idea of the demystification of the creative act, considering that the proper creation itself is a heroic and claiming act, in this case, the importance of the daily happenings considered as daily militancy.
La exposición constó de cuatro videoinstalaciones que, al igual que toda la obra de Aernout Mik, tienen puntos de contacto con el cine, la performance, la escultura y la arquitectura. La dimensión performática de la exposición en el CA2M quedó además reforzada por una acción en la que grupos de personas llevaron a cabo una sutil interacción con las obras y el propio espacio expositivo.