This course offers an overview on the revolution caused by the new cinema trends of the nineteen-sixties, their perceptions in the fifties and their subsequent echoes during the seventies. What took place was a revolution that challenged classical cinema and marked the beginning of modernity; in the words of Domènec Font it represented ‘a genuine upheaval within the structure we refer to as History of Art.’
Activities
The CGAC's Activities and Pedagogical Department develops its programme with a primary goal: to bring art to society through the rigorous analysis of critical issues inherent in contemporary artistic activity.
Film seasons and conferences, workshops, seminars and concerts, make up the centre’s fundamental offer of activities, aiming to involve a wide range of audiences from the professional sector of the world of art and culture to an increasingly larger group of artists and fine art and history students, not to mention all those interested in the evolution of art and aesthetic reflection.
At the same time, the CGAC develops specific programmes for schools and colleges as well as guided tours, with the purpose of providing the various groups who come to the museum with the necessary tools to understand contemporary art and, from there, the world we live in.
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22 October 2014 - 20 May 2015
18 May 2015 - 19 May 2015
This workshop, aimed at amateurs and professionals from the world of photography, architecture and design, focusses on the technical and visual codes which are characteristic of architectural photography. As a practical exercise we will do a report on the building housing the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), designed by the Portuguese architect, Álvaro Siza.
17 April 2015 - 25 April 2015
On our first day of school we are taught to join consonants with vowels. We are taught to interpret, and later on, to associate what we have learned with the world around us. When we open a book, we are able to interpret, page by page, each and every object, image and situation that is needed to recreate the story with no need to have them right there in front of us.
7 May 2015 - 8 April 2015
The CGAC presents the second edition of the Insultarte Workshop (Insult+art/Insult+you) directed by the artists Vanesa Castro, Iñaki López and Juan Lesta. A comprehensive program of activities targeting students and workers from the world of culture and creation to provide them with guidelines on labor, fiscal and management issues.
15 January 2015 - 27 March 2015
WHEN THEY WERE KINGS
27 January 2015 - 10 February 2015
New appointments for the series of guided tours led by experts from the field of art and culture for the exhibits The Order of First Things and It's Capital.
22 December 2014 - 30 December 2014
This Christmas the CGAC will be offering workshops for children aged 4-9 years. The two workshops, taught by Xesús Carballido and Rebeca Mariño, will invite participants to reflect on the importance of art as a way to understand the environment we live in. These workshop sessions will focus on the shows of Carlos León and Rosendo Cid and how they relate to the art object.
18 May 2014 - 16 December 2014
The fifth edition of Music and art: Sound Correspondences begins in May, coinciding with the celebration of International Museum Day and with the support of the University of Santiago de Compostela. The starting point of this concert series programme, which promotes dialogue between the music and art of our time, are the exhibitions by Diego Santomé, Rosângela Rennó and Carlos León that the CGAC will host in the second half of 2014.
30 September 2014 - 11 December 2014
El Documental del Mes is an initiative run by Parallel 40 and was born as a CinemaNet Europe’s project in 2004. Its main aim is to make documentary films available to a wider audience while at the same time increasing the presence of European documentaries on film screens, regardless of their quality, subject matter or country of origin. The programme consists in the simultaneous screening of the same documentary film in around 45 Spanish…