Exhibitions

Carlos Garaicoa (Havana, 1967) observes cities, architectures and unrealised dreams—some already forgotten and others still within reach. He interprets their story lines, their grievances and indelible memories and then, with a tireless creativity, he outlines different perspectives, grafting past and present. He draws new vanishing points, seeking out commonplace things and crowds as subjects of an incessant process of transformation into…

Antoni Muntadas (Barcelona, 1942), a figure of reference in international art, is building a transdisciplinary discourse centred on criticism of the media; he places the extensive function of art in interaction with social sciences, the mass media and the new information technologies to reveal the linguistic mechanisms of power. In the seventies he created the term media landscape to give a name to this new landscape, which has been, since…

With the classic text of Gustave Flaubert as its starting point, this multi-channel installation by Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker is a revisionist take on the 19th century novel was filmed in Åland, Finland in summer 2012 and Paris, France in winter 2013.

Paraphrasing the title of perhaps the most experimental novel by Julio Cortázar, 62 / A Model Kit, the collection is conceived as a model kit, as an essential but pending task and always in progress for a museum. The exhibition as an attempt, proposes and confronts different models of narrative and historical approaches, between collision and dialogue, in the form of a critical outline.

Eduardo Batarda (Coimbra, 1943) is one of the most recognised artists in Portugal and Mise en abyme is his first solo exhibition in Spain. Known for his paintings and watercolours, his work was first influenced by English pop art, comics and illustration, halfway between figuration and abstraction.

Some artists arrive at a theme through research; others do so by inclination. Álvaro Negro clearly belongs to the former.

General Confession is a retrospective of Luis Gordillo, curated by Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes, director of the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville and Santiago Olmo, director of the CGAC.

Place: Contingencies of Use is an approach to the existential meaning of architectural space. The project shows site-specific works by the artists Patricia Esquivias, Luciana Lamothe and Sofía Táboas, produced for different locations within the building designed by Álvaro Siza.

Bathers comprises an extensive set of anonymous photographs of semi-naked boys, scarcely covered by a swimsuit and pictured in contact with nature. Boys who appear outdoors: by beaches, swimming pools, in the countryside, beside lakes or rivers, recreating the traditional iconography of bathers that has enjoyed a high profile throughout the history of art.