The works from the ARCO Foundation Collection allow us to trace out an itinerary through the art from the decade of the 1960's to nowadays, this time with a focus on two ideas that have also been an important part of the exhibition programming of the CA2M in recent years. On the one hand, the very notion of art, and its potential to generate meaning through minimal gestures. The other theme that plays a role in this presentation is personal and collective memory, as well as our capacity to reread our past in order to understand the present and imagine the future.
Nominal Nature is an exhibition conceived as an interweaving of three pieces located at three points in the vertical axis of the museum building: the entrance area, the elevators, and the rooftop terrace, complemented by a performative talk titled Pabellón in the ground floor auditorium. The pieces gathered in this project combine different media, practices and processes, which bear similitude with the activities upon which the knowledge of Nature was built during Modernity, for the purpose of which they articulate methodologies that come from the field of science transposed to other realms..
“PUNK. Sus rastros en el arte contemporáneo” busca hacerse eco de la importante presencia de lo Punk como actitud y como referencia entre muchos creadores. Tanto que quizás esa referencia es el único punto en común entre artistas y obras muy distantes; o tanto como para rastrear el arte contemporáneo como un espacio de disidencia en el que congregar una actitud Punk. Esta es una exposición llena de ruido, explícito pero también en la suma de imágenes y en una voluntad desjerarquizadora de la producción artística contemporánea: mezclando grandes instalaciones, rastros documentales, piezas únicas, múltiples, fotografías, vídeos, pintura.
The exhibition The Infinitely Variable Ideal of the Popular attempts to review the work of Jeremy Deller by incorporating early as well as recent work, bearing in mind that this is the first exhibition of its kind presented in a Spanish-speaking country. The selected pieces make evident the manner in which Deller departs from object production in order to give way to collective actions, which arise from within the art sphere, only to later desert it.
The Autoplacer Working Group was set up to assess how the ongoing COVID-19 health situation has affected the independent music sector.
PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK 3_ERAS BY JOSÉ LUIS BREA
3_Eras, the only text by José Luis Brea that had not been published until now, consists of a script which came about from the film version of the book Las tres eras de la imagen. The film by María Virginia Jaua and José Luis Brea includes sound and visual images, and the participation of the author and some philosophers like Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Rancière. This book and this film, to which the Spanish theorist dedicated the final years of his life, are also a tribute to his memory almost a decade after his passing.
XXV IMAGE SYMPOSIUM
The IMAGE SYMPOSIUM is a programme dedicated to collective reflection on the theory and practice of visual cultures. It takes place over three days within the framework of a forum of debate, comprising a symposium and an open call for projects. These three days will be a space for encounter and intersection between various forms of production that counteract the overwhelming virtuality and reproduction of images today.
SWEET FEVER WORKSHOP WITH PERE FAURA
Sweet Fever is a choreographic proposal by the artist Pere Faura, based on the iconic movie Saturday Night Fever. It will be a choral piece in loop in which prolonged repetition shifts between faithful execution, modification, deformation and complete disfiguration while, at the same time, it will strike up a dialogue with other theatrical elements like video, music and lighting, which re-signify this iconic choreography.