Exhibitions

The museological institution is a creation of the democratic and secularised society that found within it models for the diffusion of artistic creation as well as creation of another nature for free citizens with equal rights of access to education and culture.

This exhibit explores and structures some of the most recent series by the painter Carlos León (Ceuta, Spain, 1948). It looks with special interest into the game of interrelations—both artistic and conceptual—that are established between the radical questioning of all illusionary images put forward by his painting and the purified practice of a three-dimensional production.

The work of Rosendo Cid (Ourense, Spain, 1974) is based on key aspects ranging from a Dadaist spirit, as he often uses unaltered objects or images, to the somewhat serious or solemn questioning that appears to surround contemporary art. This is the result of his work in series, from which an understanding of art as a variable and constant process is derived.

In It’s Capital Cristina Lucas (Jaén, Spain, 1973) takes a look at some of the great enigmas, paradoxes, and challenges posed by the current capitalist system through four new works designed specifically for the context of this exhibition.

Mark Manders (Volkel, Netherlands, 1968) is one of the most important international artists of the last two decades and boasts one of the most unique and personal bodies of work that can be seen on the international art scene. In addition to representing his country at the 55th Venice Biennale, he has had exhibitions at many of the top museums and art centers in the world, as well as participating in Documenta 11 in 2002. A variation on the…

Since 1997 Juan Uslé has been working on a series of works known as his ‘black paintings,’ which takes a central position in his oeuvre. In the fifty paintings that make up the series Soñé que revelabas, most of them done at night, Usle carries out a highly concentrated and meditative disquisition on the structural conditions of painting and the painting process.

The discursive strategies that provide the foundation for the work of Diego Santomé (Vigo, 1966) are directly linked to the concepts of utopia and failure, equilibrium and instability.

Usue Arrieta & Vicente Vázquez - François Bucher - Waltercio Caldas - André Cepeda - Patricia Esquivias - Suso Fandiño - Fermín Jiménez Landa - Loreto Martínez Troncoso - Chelo Matesanz - Fabio Morais - Pamen Pereira - Gabriel Pericàs - José Luis Seara - André Sousa

One hundred years after his birth, the CGAC holds an exhibition devoted to Spanish architect Alejandro de la Sota (Pontevedra, Spain, 1913 - Madrid, Spain, 1996). The show, which is organised by ICO Foundation in collaboration with the Alejandro de la Sota Foundation, reflects on the man, his work, his teaching and perhaps most relevant of all, how relevant his legacy is today.