This Christmas, we are holding four workshops on two of the exhibitions we have in progress.We will approach contemporary art from a leisure perspective, immersing ourselves in creative processes through the multiple languages, supports, materials, techniques and concepts of the most contemporary art. We will visit the exhibition of the artist Jesús Madriñán, who transfers the experiences he had on the Camino to the museum through the portraits of the people he met along the trail.Portraits that will help us to develop an educational workshop on the multiple possibilities this genre offers. We will pass by the works of the artist Pedro Cabrita Reis to enjoy his ‘found’ objects, the idea of construction from destruction and his interventions in space.
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The exhibition entitled How they See Us gathers together pieces from the permanent CGAC collection and the ARCO Foundation collection; pieces that cover a period of almost thirty years (from 1970 to 2007) by artists from different generations and geographies, laying special emphasis on the ways in which self-representation is shown as the process of questioning historically constructed conventions.
The CGAC wishes to continue with the events to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the institution by accommodating one of its most successful and highly anticipated initiatives.The Music Department, founded by Manuel Rodeiro between 1994 and 1995, established itself in just a few years as an active platform and a management model that succeeded in combining innovation and artistic demand with an unprecedented public interest.For this reason, the person behind it all has been invited to coordinate a series of activities that serve to revive the spirit of that adventure in two intense days of seminars, which will also serve as an opportunity to pay tribute to the people and impulses that made this feat possible. Territory of the Imagination attempts to summarise, from its very title, a journey through music that, far beyond technical or conceptual contributions or always subjective aspects of appreciation, casts a look at the primordial images that, with a new kind of sensitivity, have forged the image of the sound of contemporary music.
We’ll begin the new year with a brand new edition of the Philo Café. On the first Sunday of each month (except long weekends) from January to May, the CGAC, in collaboration with the Galician Critics Association, will be offering new encounters where you can participate in philosophical discussions while enjoying a cup of coffee while contemplating a work of art. The Philo Cafés at the CGAC are public conversations open to anyone interested in discussing philosophical concerns and points of view from any discipline or level of knowledge. The sessions will be directed by professionals from various disciplinary backgrounds. Joining us this year will be Quico Cadaval, playwright; Beatriz Busto Miramontes, anthropologist; Manuela Palacios González, philologist; Antón Lopo, author; and a well-known figure in the world of art, Miguel Ángel Cajigal Vera (known on Twitter as El Barroquista). Every month, we’ll take a work of art from the CGAC Collection out of the museum’s storage area. The idea is for it to join us and lead us into a discussion. The selected artwork will serve as a take-off point to spark the conversation. But the conversation will not be focused on art, or not only on art, but rather it will encompass any topic suggested by the piece on many different levels—conceptual, formal or superficial. The conversation may revolve around science, gastronomy, politics, music, philosophy, cinema, aesthetics, current events… anything from the mundane to the sublime, inviting everyone to give his or her opinion and thoughts on the issues that crop up spontaneously.
Upon completion of the first series of courses focusing on globalized education in language skills, mathematics and the natural environment through art, a cross-cutting theme has been added to this art education program; one that is present at all levels of education: identity. This axis, of great importance in contemporary art and in life, allows us to gain insight into a number of different creative and research references relating to I and we through visual and plastic experimentation. The name, the body, the footprint, objects and places, relationships, image or action will be our playing field. By using a dynamic and participatory methodology, we will alternate work with works of art, observation sessions, reflection and debate as well as creative workshops.
The CGAC opens a new arts education programme for the integration of people with special needs. The Diverse Classroom project, run by the cultural manager and educator Adriana Pazos Ottón, proposes contemporary art as a tool for social inclusion and the museum as a space for learning that welcomes differences. Between January and June 2020, a series of sessions will be held open to groups or people with special needs as well as to the general public, combining guided tours and creative workshops. The aim is to establish integrating actions that create meeting points between groups and different people capable of contributing knowledge and experiences from multiple perspectives and generating a common physical, conceptual and social space.
Online access for all registered participants, through the Zoom platform.Time: Wednesday from 7.00 to 8.30 p.m. The second edition of the Intrahistory of Architecture course will continue to address cross-cutting areas to this discipline. We will discuss topics such as innovation, architect-inventors, education through the construction game, eco-construction, the rich relationships between architecture and design or architecture and art, as well as the relationships between the architect and the client. We will discuss communities and the masters of architecture, without forgetting the pioneers.
The theoretical component of the proposals of the participating artists in this cycle is to reflect on how not to relate to the other or the other? ie as people learn to interact with us and the, above all, with the environment.
This workshop has no title. It’s going to be a workshop based on the artist’s experiences; he won’t discuss theory, but rather the things he has learnt throughout his career.
The term ‘opera’ can evoke an art intended for the bourgeoisie or at the very least, detached from the concerns of the twenty-first century, with its controversial and multi-faceted views of art and the human being.
For every film that comes into being, there are many more that are relegated to the limbo of the unfilmed. The latter are the only perfect films, because they exist only as a potential, as an idea or a dream, and have never clashed with reality. In contrast, the ones that have materialised will always and necessarily be imperfect, a catalogue of promises and resignations and, maybe, of some happy encounters. ‘Anything is possible if it is foolish enough,’ said Orson Welles, but as he would discover himself, such optimism was no more than the stubborn wish of a non-conformist rebel.
Due to the COVID19 crisis, the fifth edition of Fugas e Interfencias will not be held either on site or online. Instead, we are going to focus all our efforts on a compilation of selected articles that will be published as minutes with an ISBN provided by the University of Vigo.
One more time, the CGAC will be part of Cineuropa, the Santiago de Compostela film festival, which celebrates its 27th anniversary.
To celebrate these past twenty years, the CGAC Film Program is kicking off on a nostalgic note, with a celebration—the twentieth anniversary of the fo
2013 is the one hundredth anniversary of Alejandro de la Sota’s birth.
The Centro Torrente Ballester in Ferrol will be hosting two exhibitions with works drawn from the CGAC Permanent Collection: Miradas cinematográficas. Colección CGAC
27 negros is an ensemble artwork consisting of 27 20 x 20 cm black monochrome pieces by 27 different authors.