Once again this year the CGAC collaborates with the 12th edition of the Curtocircuíto International Film Festival.
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The project In Search of the Miraculous: Thirty Years Later is centred on the last episode in a creative life that was marked by risk and adventure: the Ocean Wave, the boat in which the artist Bas Jan Ader set out in July 1975 to challenge nature to its ultimate consequences, in his posthumous work, was found ten months later, capsized, in the Irish Box fishing grounds by the Spanish trawler Eduardo Pondal whose base was the port of Corunna. This event was essential to the understanding of the circumstances surrounding his disappearance, and constitutes the focus of the exhibition proposal.
My understanding is that every artistic project is like a complex space where many different plots and stories—conceptual, formal and vital—are activated and begin to interact. These contents and stories need to be activated by exercising creativity, which can be defined as a compendium of capacities and processes that we deploy through exploration, experimentation and games.
One more year, Cineuropa Film Festival, which kicks off its 29th edition, will be held once between November 6 and 29. As usual, the CGAC will be one of its multiple screening venues throughout the city.
Through a dialogue, the workshop seeks for participants to understand that there are subtle decisions that affect and modify the meaning of their work. Because every creative act is extremely complex, different approaches are required to discover the reasons behind the decisions we make during the creative process. Therefore, we will delve into the meaning of our aesthetic ideas, their conceptual intentions, and the strong feelings that boost the creative act.
The Cuarto Público contemporary art fair, now in its third edition, consolidates its ongoing support to the artistic production announcing a new call of participation: the First Cuarto Público Encounter of Performance Art.
This Christmas the CGAC is offering two workshops for children 4-9 years old. The activities will revolve around painting, writing, emotional voyages, poetry, nature, roads, footprints and other ideas that emerge from artist Javier Vallhonrat’s exhibition, Interacciones (Interactions) on view at the CGAC until 27 March 2016.
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.
Architect Fermín Blanco will use the Sistema Lupo teaching method to offer a workshop series for children. The aim is to provide boys and girls with the keys needed for them to interpret modern architecture through the legacy of the most important figures in this field of our time.
These encounters aim to offer a place for work and reflection on the present and future of modern art centres and institutions. In a time of change in the social and economic sphere, as well as within the administration of CGAC itself and other public institutions of Galicia, we think it is the perfect time to get together and talk about the museum model we want and need, and to share our professional experiences on the Galician scene and elsewhere. With this activity, based on questions, critical evaluation and reflection, we hope to position CGAC as a meeting place and forum for debate.
On the first Sunday of each month at 6:30 p.m., the CGAC will be holding a philo cafe in the cafeteria.Philo cafés are public conversations open to anyone interested in discussing philosophical concerns and points of view from any discipline or level of knowledge.
Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic takes its inspiration from Paul Gilroy’s seminal book The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993). The exhibition is the first to trace in depth the impact of different black cultures from around the Atlantic on art from the early twentieth century to today. From the influences of African art on the modernist forms of artists like Picasso, to the work of contemporary artists such as Ellen Gallagher and Kara Walker, the exhibition will reflect how artists around the Atlantic have claimed the language of Modernism in diverse ways, as a powerful tool to explore, formulate and assert their own identity.
As a starting premise we will focus on the critical attitude of the artist towards everything related to art and the society that promotes it on a recurrent basis, and far from questioning the most compromising attitudes of the system, this laboratory aims to explore the obvious needs of a future which is as uncertain as it is imperative.
For the fourth consecutive year, the CGAC is collaborating with the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) to bring you nerd nites. On March 30th, at 9:30
Since 2014, in collaboration with different Spanish institutions engaging in contemporary art, the IAC has been organising round tables that are open to the public, with the purpose of setting up meetings where the sector's professionals can get together and reflect.
On 18 May the worldwide community of museums will celebrate International Museum Day. This year, the overarching theme of the celebration organised by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) will be Museums and Cultural Landscapes.
The CGAC in collaboration with USC presents the sixth edition of the series Música y arte. Correspondencias sonoras. The music and art of our times come together and offer a space for all contemporary creative expression. The aim of the project is to promote the most avant-garde aesthetics, the most outstanding composers from the new musical scene and the most interesting perspectives for development of new music. Curated by Vertixe Sonora, new authors from the international scene have composed original works from exhibitions, authors, and works from the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea.
This workshop offered by Marisa González (Bilbao, 1945) will focus on her artistic practice within the context of the exhibition Registros domesticados, that c
Television is essential to understand the historical evolution of audiovisual images and culture. Since its origins it has revealed itself as the most influential means of communication for masses due to its immediacy and its practically innate capacity to adapt to consumer preferences.
The history of humanity is also the history of the gaze. From the light of the stars to the shadows of caves, human beings have always tried to see further, to go beyond their everyday reality. And with their insatiable scopipc impulse, with their resistance to close their eyes, illusion, dreams and fantasy were also born: desire, in one word.