The project Critical [Ex]positions. Critical Discourses in Spanish Art, 1975-1995, 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…
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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.
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.
Between the advent of Atlántica and the emergence of Pontevedra’s School of Fine Arts, Galicia has witnessed the development of the work of a long list of artists of varying academic backgrounds and with very different aesthetic ideas and conceptual horizons. In this fertile parenthesis, they fought to broaden the horizons of their work in the most adverse of conditions in a kind of no man’s land where they were always hard-pressed to find…
Domesticated Records is a project that seeks to show the unity that lies behind the themed, technical and formal motivation present throughout the artist's forty-five year long career.
The exhibition Theory and Practice of the Desert is a journey through the processes that are present in the work of Antoni Socias. Photography and painting, objects, installations and videos are linked through friction.
The universe of Luis González Palma (Guatemala, 1957) is made up of theme-related constellations that orbit around his work in a never-ending flow and return cycle. Identity and memory —the pillars of his early photographic series— are approached from the perspective of the portrait with lingering echoes of religious painting, the baroque and Pre-Raphaelite styles. Other themes that hover around his work are introspection, privacy, a…
