Exhibitions

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.

This exhibit takes a look at the artistic career of Chelo Matesanz (Reinosa, Cantabria, Spain, 1964), beginning with her works from the end of the eighties until the most recent ones.

To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the CGAC presents 93, an exhibition designed to take us back to the early nineties, when the museum opened its doors to the public for the first time.

For Víctor Grippo (Junín, 1936 – Buenos Aires, 2002) the artist’s work consists of deciphering the hidden meanings found under primary objects. Since he started his career as an artist in the oppressive Argentinian political climate of the nineteen-sixties, this qualified chemist had a constant interest in the relationships between art, science and everyday life.

Graham Gussin (London, 1960) uses a wide range of media, including texts, drawings, film, video, sound, photography and installation, to explore our perception of time, space and scale. His works frequently appropriate and manipulate images and literary narratives taken from art history, popular culture and, above all, cinema.

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.