For the autumn, the IVAM has prepared a broad programme of exhibitions that features a show exploring post-war art in Europe, a project by Teresa Lanceta, the pioneer of textile art in Spain, and a new presentation of the work of Julio González. The agenda is completed with the show In a House. Genealogy of Domestic Labour and Care, a production by Alba Herrero and Ana Penyas, the author of Todas estamos bien [We are all well], which won her the first National Prize for Comic Strip Art to be awarded to a woman.
The autumn exhibition programme opened on September 29 with Far from Emptiness. Zero and Post-war Art in Europe, which reviews the principal movements that arose in Europe between 1957 and 1966 around the key referent of the ZERO group, formed by Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Gunter Uecker. These and other collectives, including the Spanish Equipo 57, linked their work to magazines and publications, actions, and events (like the inauguration of exhibitions lasting a single evening). With more than 170 works on display, the show explains the pivotal position these groups occupied between the historical avant-gardes and later relational art.
Teresa Lanceta (Barcelona, 1951. She lives and works in Alicante) is the protagonist of the exhibition inaugurated on 6 October. Curated by Nuria Enguita and Laura Vallés in collaboration with the MACBA, Teresa Lanceta. Weaving as an Open Code surveys the artist’s career from the 1970s to the present day, and includes a wide selection of her tapestries, canvases, paintings, drawings, writings, and videos in what constitutes the most extensive survey of her work to date.
The historian and art and architecture critic Juan José Lahuerta is in charge of revising the IVAM’s Julio González collection in order to shed new light on the work of this great artist through a review of the archive, distancing him from certain myths on his life and work that have persisted since the middle of the last century. The exhibition will open on October 28.
The 2022 exhibition calendar will end on November 10 with the show In a House. Genealogy of Domestic Labour and Care. The exhibition is organised around archive material and the life experiences of women of different ages and origins, including both domestic workers and employers. The show explores the temporal, spatial and social changes linked to this work. It will be completed with two series by Ana Penyas, Everything under the Sun and In Transition, both belonging to the IVAM Collection.
