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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 then, the main goal of his investigation.

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Video presentation (Antoni Muntadas, Alicia Chillida, Santiago Olmo)

La Vanguardia 15/02/2018

Audio Diario Cultural 16/02/2018

El correo Gallego 16/02/2018

El Correo Gallego 17/02/2018

La Voz de Galicia 18/02/2018

La Voz de Galicia 20/02/2018

Bigmat International Architecture Agenda

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. This exhibition is curated by the renowned Portuguese artist Julião Sarmento, who offers his particular eye, complicit to Batarda's work, and at the same time a companion in exhibitions, admirer and collector of his work and, in this case, curator.

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Lecture Audio Recording Batarda/Sarmento/Santiago Olmo

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 prepared for the CGAC is a retrospective look at his work that stresses a fundamental question: the gradual discovery of a personal and recognisable language already inherent in his early series and which in the last decade is consolidated and maximised in a single atmosphere.

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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. 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.

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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. The origin of their proposals lies in the field of the contemporary city and in architecture, sharing the common denominator of the promotion of acts that address specific architectural environments. Their works deal with that which is tectonic, with the morphology of materials and the building elements. They address the historical and symbolic dimension and the perceptive and cognitive one, which is ultimately the end that justifies spatial construction and consequently architecture.

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