Exhibitions

Ricardo Basbaum (São Paulo, 1961) is a cultural agent who is very active, not only in the artistic sense, but also as a professor, researcher and curator. Diagramas is his first retrospective exhibition in Spain.

The Mind on Fire is the first institutional exhibition in Spain by American artist James Welling (Hartford, Connecticut, 1951). Comprising a hundred and fifty works, the exhibition recreates some of the artist’s seminal photographic shows from New York in the early to mid nineteen-eighties, charting the development of his abstract and experimental photographic language. Presented in partnership with MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, and Contemporary…

Miguel Palma (Lisbon, 1964) takes over the forms and the narrative flow of a modernity that is in continuous interpretive mutation in order to work with concepts such as degeneration, failure or progress.

In an exercise of institutional transparency, this exhibition presents a selection of the works recently acquired for the permanent collection of the CGAC or added to the centres archives through the deposit of the ARCO Foundation Collection.

In the same way as cinema or the press, pop and rock music could not escape the censoring action of the Franco regime. But in contrast to the first, the repression became harsher with regards to the latter just when the regime was starting to cautiously open up. The authorities were aware of the role that music had played in the international revolts of the sixties and tried to limit its influence in a Spain that was becoming more and more…

Observation, compilation, indexation, discovery, re-creation. In an oeuvre marked by silent gestures, Fernando Casás (Gondomar, Pontevedra, Spain, 1946) has maintained a constant relationship of curiosity vis-à-vis nature. The traces left by the passing of time, endlessly mutating entropic states and forms, encountered in the depths of the tropical forest or in the lush Galician countryside, are the determining factors in a creative journey…

Eugenio Granell and cinema: a twenty-minute film is an exhibition conceived by the Eugenio Granell Foundation for the CGAC to celebrate the centenary of the artist’s birth. The exhibition, centred around his facet as filmmaker, is part of a project involving several institutions in Santiago and offers a broader view of the different aspects of the work of this multidisciplinary artist.

Gravity & Disgrace Ep. II discusses works that do not attempt to illustrate a specific narrative purpose, but rather to enrich the initial context of the exhibit, making it at the same time denser and larger. Bringing these objects together in the CGAC’s Double Space requires a clearer than normal interdependent reading. As a conscious curatorial plan, here it is important to understand that the autonomy of each of these objects is…

‘Accidents are part of the performance.’ ‘The idea must be good when the concept is bare and everybody can see it.’ ‘There is no freedom when everything is controlled by institutions.’ ‘I do not do art for others, I do art for myself.’ ‘Art is the only space for freedom’... These words of Esther Ferrer, gathered over years of conversations, present us with a radical, independent, antiexhibition and free artist with her own ideas. All this has…