At the beginning of the 20th century, with the avant-garde movements, the frontiers between fashion and art begin to blur as haute couture and design start to work with the same techniques and approaches used in artistic practices.
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The most complete and comprehensive vision of an artist’s work is made possible when we have the opportunity to examine their artistic production throughout their career. An opportunity to travel in time, taking as a reference point the works that are a product of effort and dedication to the unique task of wanting to show.
Through fixed and moving images, reused objects, everyday sounds, photographs, interviews, works created for the radio, video performances and documents—many from the media and its sphere of influence—Jerez and Iges compose a space of visual and sound landscapes which analyse, tauten, describe and at times parody the world that surrounds us.
Maria Callas is universally known. She was an opera singer who transcended that artistic sphere to become a cultural icon with millions of followers around the world, giving rise to the mythomania that all modern-day sopranos must face in one way or another.
Coinciding in space and time with the staging of the forthcoming temporary exhibitions at the CGAC, Ensemble Liberdade will carry out a musical residency project based on
Contemporary culture encompasses a broad spectrum of obsessions, interwoven under the power of image in the media.
Priscilla Monge’s work has often been included in the post-conceptual scene of Latin America in the nineteen-nineties, but it should be borne in mind that during that time neither Costa Rica nor the region of Central America to which it belongs featured on the maps of internationally renowned Latin American art.
For yet another year, the first Sunday of every month, at 6:30 pm, from October to June (except in January), the CGAC is organising a philo café in its cafeteria. This year the Asociación Galega da Crítica (Galician Association of Critics) will join the philo cafés at the CGAC.
Proposing a new architectural route that encourages everyone to walk around the city and enjoy its architecture, discovering the urban spaces that have undergone transformations in recent decades.
This course will allow us to approach in a practical way the tools that enable us to plan and design a message, to compose and shape it, to express an idea and to communicate with the environment in a visual way.
The aim of this programme is to promote and facilitate a dialogue between the public and contemporary art using yoga as a tool for mediation.
On Wednesday afternoons we’ll be offering this new activity aimed at children. The goal is to stimulate the interest of younger people in contemporary artistic creation and incentivise learning through experimenting with art.
As part of its programme featuring mid-career artists, the CGAC is delighted to present an individual exhibition of the work of Mar Caldas, a pioneer of feminist artistic practice in Galicia. Her work, which is fundamentally photographic, is constantly renewing its stance as a means of protest against the different obstacles which, by their very nature, threaten women’s lives.
Against a backdrop ranging from Milan Kundera to Simone Weil, Vieta reflects on the contradictions of human experience through snapshots that capture the complexity of the spectrum of our emotions, thoughts and experiences. Her works redefine the relationship between opposites with the coherence that only lies in dreams.
For yet another year, the CGAC is offering a series of workshops on contemporary architecture for children. The workshops are directed by the architect Fermín Blanco and taught by the Lupo System team. The aim is to provide children with the necessary tools to interpret present-day architecture through the latest theories, projects, and works by the most relevant architects.
After her presentation at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea hosts the first retrospective exhibition in Europe of the Italianborn Brazilian artist, Anna Maria Maiolino (Scalea, 1942), whose work is a reference for artists of different generations, both in her home country and on a global scale.
Salto cuántico (Quantum Leap) is an interactive sculpture with three mobile, interchangeable modules. It adopts the structure of the first computers from the nineteen-forties—contemporary totems on casters that allow constant updates, making this an open structure in the quantum space.
The relationship between art and science is not always obvious and can sometimes be difficult to understand. Historically, however, they have led to changes in the working methodologies of both disciplines, encouraged the use of new tools and contributed to changing perspectives.
An extensive and thorough look at the work of Antón Lamazares through his artistic production and his vital odyssey. A journey in time through works born of labour and commitment to the unique practice of wanting to show.