The world of Miki Leal is a world of jazz, cinema, the American lifestyle and sport, as well as his family world, his domestic environment and within it his personal belongings.
This exhibition is the result of a selection of works, objects and images as well as newly produced interventions. Many of the pieces in the exhibition are part of the CA2M Museum's collection, although there are also loans from other public and private collections in the country as well as from the selected artists themselves.
El Barro de la Revolución comprises some of the works created by Paloma Polo (Madrid, 1983) after her long stay, or rather her “personal and political immersion” in the Philippines since 2013. It is precisely the last of those works—a film lasting approximately 2 hours 35 minutes—what gives title to the show and functions as its connecting line, while at the same time giving rise to many of the social and political reflections present in other works by Polo during the time she spent in the Philippines.
Imagining the analysis of the social and political systems of our day through the figures of clowns, harlequins and hands does not seem at all strange in these times. It is true that the division between individual and persona has never been so relevant.
It presents a succinct overview of his artistic production, recovering different works that have marked his work in some way since the early 2000s. At the same time, coexisting with this journey is a group of new works that, based on a highly personal vision of sculptural language, are displayed through spatially specific installations, newly produced pieces, performative actions and series that are added to some of those already produced in recent years.
Lucía C. Pino works primarily with image and sculpture. For the past decade, the artist’s practice has largely been concerned with questioning the material and ontological inertias rooted in design, architecture and sculpture, such as attachment, solidity or durability.
Turbid Waters is Inês Zenha's first institutional solo exhibition in Spain, a project specially curated for the first floor of the CA2M Museum.
This project is designed to be a dialogue between three collections that operate within different territorial frameworks of the South — from Móstoles (Madrid), the Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo; from Panamá, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá; and from Buenos Aires, Argentina, the home of BIENALSUR — as a way to spark different synergies through such an alliance of institutions.