Exhibition

Critical Fetishes. Residues of general economy is the first instalment in a series of projects by El Espectro Rojo, a Mexico City-based collective which explores the intersection between artistic and theoretical practices from a political, post-colonial and poetic perspective. Fetiches críticos aims to transcend the miserabilist description of the effects of the crisis of capitalism and demonstrate how art documents moments of anti-production, defuses the myths of development and launches the artwork as an object of desire and subversion.

The Imagining_Writing History exhibition is designed to complement and reinforce the issues that will be addressed during the international seminar. It also provides an opportunity to present a dialogue between a selection of works by the artists participating in the lectures, pieces from the CA2M Collection and historic works from the collection owned by the Regional Government of Madrid.

Featuring the photographs of 10 national and international artists, this exhibition focuses on the periphery as the constantly changing area that surrounds cities and pushes the rural world – what remains of nature – out to a few reserves destined in time to disappear almost completely.

In the show on display at CA2M, co-produced with Malmö Konsthall, Leopold Kessler presents a selection of his videos, sculptures, photographs and objects used for various actions conducted between 2005 and 2008. The show also features a new video piece entitled Neighbours and two interventions in the public space to take place in the town of Móstoles.

The Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo presents two installations by the artists David Bestué and Marc Vives. The first one, entitled Acciones en el universo, 2007, presents us with a type of tunnel of horror or experimental corridor and is divided into 11 separate spaces. The second installation, entitled La Confirmación, follows a character through different stages of his life that lead him to re-examine some of the certainties he has hitherto regarded as irrevocable.

This exhibition features a selection of works belonging to the collection owned by the CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo. A large proportion of them are recent acquisitions and are on display for the first time. Many are photographs, but videos, drawings and other media are also included.

Before Everything is an attempt to delve into current artistic production from Spain. The exhibition, in which 56 artists will participate, does not set out to offer a totalizing vision of the here and now of Spanish art, but rather to confer an unprecedented level of visibility to productive modalities that have developed in specific locations in Spain.

The exhibition Sonic Youth etc.:. : Sensational Fix focuses on the multidisciplinary activities of the groundbreaking experimental guitar band Sonic Youth since its formation in 1981. The exhibition features the band’s collaborations with visual artists, filmmakers, designers and musicians, as well as a choice of other works selected by the band.

The exhibition Light Years. Cristina Lucas comprises videos, photographs, drawings and installations that serve as performative acts in which the artist herself, other characters, the spectator and even animals directly confront the symbols, myths and metaphors of defining moments in the western patriarchal domination.

Auto. Dream and Matter analyses the presence of the car in contemporary art. Featuring over 100 works by 60 artists from both Spain and abroad, the exhibition explores the relationship between car culture and artistic creation in recent decades.