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Friday, 28th of October of 2016

EVA LOOTZ. CUT THROUGH THE FOG

This exhibition is not put forward as an anthology—it would be impossible to enclose in a single exhibition over forty years of non-stop work. Instead, it is more of an approach to a series of meaningful pieces that began to see the light in the nineteen-seventies and that have lasted to this day. We therefore find an extensive compilation of works from that early stage, although for greater precision, it would be more convenient to refer to them as ‘objects.’ They contain a predominant attitude of search and experimentation through the use of the most diverse materials. One block is made up of a series of unusual pictorial surfaces where colour has been eliminated to explore the behaviour of pigments in the supports: tar, alkyl, paraffin, wax seal, carbon, fibreglass, wool, flanelette, canvas, tarlatan, esparto, felt, etc

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Friday, 15th of July of 2016

STEFAN BRÜGGEMANN. TO BE POLITICAL IT HAS TO LOOK NICE

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. His exhibition at the CGAC is built on spatial interventions that question the order of concepts, the logic of rules and, particularly, the conventions of the art system.

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Thursday, 30th of June of 2016

Rereading the Collection

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. The function of a museum is to create one such memory and to keep it alive through countless re-readings, interpretations and research that question and that do not shy away from difficult perspectives. The temporary displays are intimately connected and linked to the collection, being as they are, another aspect of the museum's memory, a way to enrich the collection and also to accompany the artists that remain closer, those that contribute to the symbolic enrichment of the culture.

Within this project of contextualization and revision of CGAC’s collection, four expositive proposals are displayed, in which different themes are developed and which embody a counter-dialogue with other collections, public and private, linked with the CGAC and Galicia: Galician public and private collections, museum collections with which the CGAC shares temporary displays (CAAC of Sevilla and MUN of Pamplona) or collections that have maintained a special link with the CGAC, like the ARCO Collection and its current venue in CA2M of Móstoles.

Exhibition brochures: States of Exception, Essay of a Visual Culture and Louise Bourgeois. Cell.

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Thursday, 21st of April of 2016

GROUPING_UNGROUPING: BREAKS IN REPRESENTATION

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 any signs to guide and direct them. This gave rise to an exciting diversity of projects and names (at last, a lot of them women’s), larger in number if we compare it to the previous generation. This exciting difference shared a common component which was none other than the self-awareness of artistic activity and the uncontrollable contamination of languages. Theirs were ‘breaks in representation.

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Friday, 15th of April of 2016

MARISA GONZÁLEZ. DOMESTICATED RECORDS

It shows the coherent evolution of that which motivated Marisa González, as well as her search for solutions to respond to present-day social problems. This is done through a dialogue held by addressing her on-going concern on what art is and the role that it can play in today's world.

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