Exhibitions

Some artists arrive at a theme through research; others do so by inclination. Álvaro Negro clearly belongs to the former. An attentive look at his career discovers many reinterpretations, the result of acting unhurriedly and of a continuous dialogue with painting and with a series of elective affinities, in many cases, artists, but also writers, poets, architects…

The exhibition is the first by the Sevillian artist in Galicia, and it allows us to follow his work, from the series of informalism-based drawings of the late nineteen-fifities to the paintings and photograph works in which canvases are used as media and computer graphics as tools.

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.

The project directed by Santiago Olmo and curated by Armando Montesinos and Mariano Navarro, aims to highlight the existence of critical criteria and interpretations that have shaped different theoretical lines and discourses, sometimes with shared elements and other times with clearly opposing ones, thus contradicting the cliché that critical thinking has never been part of the Spanish art world.

With an early vocation, Berta Cáccamo (Vigo, 1963) grew up in a universe linked to the creation. Considered one of the most important Spanish painters of his generation, he has been able to distil away influences from very different times, always ready to debate with her work, with the problems of art and its images.

Born in Vienna but residing in Spain since 1968, Eva Lootz occupies a unique place within her generation. In 1994 she received the Spanish National Visual Arts Prize in recognition of her important contribution to the Spanish artistic panorama, although her personality and the originality of her work by far exceed this geographical boundary.

The work of Stefan Brüggemann (México City, 1975 has opened up a different way of addressing the sociological and cultural aspects of language. His work deals with those linguistic contradictions that make up the paradoxes of living and coexisting with each other, questioning the rigidity of political correctness, precisely because it is false.

The core of any museum is its collection. The collection is a patrimonial symbol of a shared cultural memory. A territory and a culture build their identity through memory. In order to keep the memory active and not just nostalgic, it needs to be critical and self-critical, willing to continually revise itself.