Four exhibitions at MUSAC
Feminist Genealogies in Spanish Art: 1960–2010
Carme Nogueira. Castillete. Mining Tableau (Landscape in Motion I) at the Laboratorio 987
Erreakzioa – Reacción. Images of a Project between Art and Feminisim at the Showcase Project
The Methodology of the Project at the Annex Space
All opening 23 June 2012
MUSAC, Museo de Arte
Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
Avda. Reyes Leoneses, 24
24008 León, Spain
www.musac.es
MUSAC presents four new shows on 23 June. Feminist Genealogies in Spanish Art: 1960–2010 proposes, through 150 works by more than 80 artists, a rereading of Spain’s recent art history from new perspectives, stemming from the need to restore the erased memory of feminist knowledge and practices. The Laboratorio 987 exhibition space will host Castillete. Mining Tableau (Landscape in Motion I) by Carme Nogueira, the second show of the Form and Meaning exhibition series, curated by Leire Vergara. MUSAC’s showcases present Erreakzioa – Reacción, Images of a Project between Art and Feminism, an art intervention by feminist art collective Erreakzioa-Reacción (Estibaliz Sadaba and Azucena Vieites). MUSAC’s Annex Space hosts The Methodology of the Project, an exhibition of artistic projects directed by Antoni Muntadas in the workshop under the same title that took place in MUSAC in January and June 2012.
Feminist Genealogies in Spanish Art: 1960- 2010
Until 6 January 2013
Artists: Pilar Albarracín, Xoán Anleo/Uqui Permui, Pilar Aymerich, Eugènia Balcells, Cecilia Barriga, María José Belbel, Miguel Benlloch, Itziar Bilbao Urrutia, Esther Boix, Cabello/Carceller, Mónica Cabo, Mar Caldas, Carmen Calvo, Nuria Canal, Anxela Caramés/Carme Nogueira/Uqui Permui, Ana Casas Broda, Castorina, Mari Chordà, Montse Clavé, María Antonia Dans, Lucía Egaña Rojas, Itziar Elejalde, Equipo Butifarra, Erreakzioa-Reacción, Eulàlia (Eulàlia Grau), Esther Ferrer, Alicia Framis, Carmela García, Ángela García Codoñer, María Gómez, Miguel Gómez/Javier Utray, Marisa González, Gabriela and Sally Gutiérrez Dewar, Yolanda Herranz, Juan Hidalgo, ideadestroyingmuros, María Llopis/Girlswholikeporno, Eva Lootz, LSD, Cristina Lucas, Jesús Martínez Oliva, Chelo Matesanz, Medeak, Miralda, Fina Miralles, Mau Monleón, Begoña Montalbán, Paz Muro, Paloma Navares, Ana Navarrete, Carmen Navarrete, Marina Núñez, Itziar Okariz, Isabel Oliver, O.R.G.I.A., Carlos Pazos, Uqui Permui, Ana Peters, Olga Pijoan, Núria Pompeia, Post-Op, Precarias a la deriva, Joan Rabascall, Amèlia Riera, Elena del Rivero, María Ruido, Estíbaliz Sádaba, Simeón Saiz Ruiz, Dorothée Selz, Carmen F. Sigler, Diana J. Torres AKA Pornoterrorista, Laura Torrado, Eulàlia Valldosera, Video-Nou/José Pérez Ocaña, Azucena Vieites, Virginia Villaplana, and Isabel Villar.
Curators: Juan Vicente Aliaga and Patricia Mayayo
Feminist Genealogies in Spanish Art: 1960-2010 is a show conceived to emphasize the importance that the discourses on gender and sexual identity have had in Spanish art production since the 1960s. Through more than 150 works by 80 artists, the exhibition curated by Juan Vicente Aliaga and Patricia Mayayo proposes a rereading of Spain’s recent art history from new perspectives. The exhibition stems from the need to restore the erased memory of feminist knowledge, practices and genealogies: it is important to recover and make visible the work of artists (some men, but especially women) who were unfairly shunned or forgotten; but it is even more important to reread the recent history of Spanish art from a different stance, with other keys and viewpoints. Not only has the legacy of feminism been underestimated in the most traditional historiography, but also in many of the accounts of art creation in Spain that are supposed to be more groundbreaking or renovating.
Laboratorio 987: Carme Nogueira. Castillete. Mining Tableau (Landscape in Motion I)
Form and Meaning exhibition series.
Until 13 January 2013
Curator: Leire Vergara
MUSAC’s Laboratorio 987 features the exhibition Castillete, Mining Tableau (Landscape in Motion I) by Carme Nogueira, within the Form and Meaning exhibition series. The show is the result of an investigation carried out by the artist in Sabero, a mining town in León, into the different layers of meaning (materials, stories, records…) involved in the formation of the idea of landscape in a specific place. By selecting a specific location, the artist directs her attention at the sedimentation processes that took place in that location with the intention of accessing the accumulation, rectification, and deposit of diverse materials, experiences, and stories that are hidden under the surface and that demonstrate the impossibility of subjecting the representation of landscape to a unitary cartography.
The Form and Meaning exhibition series, curated by Leire Vergara, is structured around three monographic exhibitions by the artists Hiwa K and Carme Nogueira Alejandra Riera, and a group project by the Leon-based artists Nilo Gallego, Silvia Zayas, and Chus Domínguez.
Showcase Project: Erreakzioa – Reacción. Images of a Project between Art and Feminism
A project by Erreakzioa – Reacción (Estibaliz Sadaba and Azucena Vieites)
Until 13 January 2013
MUSAC’s Showcase Project presents Images of a Project between Art and Feminism, an art intervention by Erreakzioa – Reacción [Estibaliz Sadaba (Bilbao, 1963) and Azucena Vieites (San Sebastián, 1967)], which reviews the proposals on the issues of artistic practice, theory, and feminist activism put forward by the collective since its formation in 1994.
Annex Space: The Methodology of the Project.
Until 9 September 2012
Exhibition of projects directed by Antoni Muntadas with the collaboration of Alfredo Puente.
Participants: Belén Cerezo (Vitoria, 1977), Carlos Criado, (Cádiz, 1977), Oier Etxeberria (Azpeitia, 1974), Miquel García Membrado (Barcelona, 1975), Olalla Gomez Jímenez (Madrid, 1982), Miriam Isasi (Vitoria, 1981), Luís Melón (León, 1974), Marcos Miguelez (Ponferrada, 1981), Ana Moya (Úbeda, 1983), Juan Pablo Orduñez (Madrid, 1986), and Alejandro Sánchez Garrido (Madrid, 1986).
MUSAC’s Annex Space hosts The Methodology of the Project, an exhibition that highlights the processes and work methodologies behind the artistic projects generated by each of the eleven participants in the workshop The Methodology of the Project, directed by Antoni Muntadas in MUSAC between January and June 2012.
*Image above:
Fina Miralles, Petjades, 1976. Courtesy of Ajuntament de Sabadell, Museu d’Art de Sabadell.
