The Poetics of Democracy Images and Counter-Images from the Spanish Transition The Poetics of Democracy: Images and Counter-Images from the Spanish Transition originates from research undertaken in 2008 by the Museo Reina Sofía’s Department of Collections, the objective being to vindicate the artistic experiences excluded from the institutional discourses of the history of Spanish art of the 1970s. In this video, Manuel Borja-Villel (director of the Museum) and Rosario Peiró (Head of Collections) explain this research process —which was carried out over a decade— to recall a period when, alongside civil demands for democratic liberties, social justice, and self-government, there arose a new aesthetic linked to innovative cultural practices that sought to subvert the order of Franco’s regime and the institutional schemes attempting to inherit it. Exhibitions
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Lost, Loose and Loved Foreign Artists in Paris 1944-1968 This show explores the contribution of foreign artists who, after the Second World War, were working in Paris, a city which still preserved a certain aura surrounding its mythical modern embodiment as a “City of Light” in the 19th century. The broad collective exhibition reflects the vitality and vivacity of the art scene in all its complexity, displaying the different creative trends which took hold in the city inside and outside the School of Paris at a time of fervent political debate, held to the backdrop of the new global stage opened by the Cold War. From a broad array of artistic fields — from painting and sculpture to jazz, literature and film — foreign artists dealt with mounting tension by bringing their approaches and hopes to the Parisian milieu in an attempt to connect with the tradition of international modernism but without losing a grip on their own cultural identity. Exhibitions
Jaume Plensa Invisibles Throughout his career as a sculptor, Jaume Plensa (Barcelona, 1955), who has received the the prestigious Velázquez Award for the Arts in 2013, has drawn on spirituality, the body and collective memory as the primary sources which tie together his visual artwork. Literature, psychology, biology, language and history become strategic tools in the creation of his work, and, through a broad spectrum of materials — steel, cast iron, resin, glass, water, sound — Plensa lends weight and physical volume to the components of the human condition and the ephemeral. In this instance, the invisible forms the essence of his intervention in the Palacio de Cristal: a group of steel mesh sculptures which take the space to draw the incomplete faces of figures hanging in the air, intersected by light and suspended in time. Exhibitions
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play pause stop 00:00 00:00 Download Round-table discussion moderated by Joana Cunha Leal and María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco Other Criteria. Cubism(s) in Modern Art. Joana Cunha Leal and María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco April 5, 2018 English and Spanish Audio Activities Seminars and conferences
play pause stop 00:00 00:00 Download Lecture by Mark Antliff. Provincial Paris, Cosmopolitan Cubism Other Criteria. Cubism(s) in Modern Art. Mark Antliff April 5, 2018 The joint presentation of the Cubism Collections of the Telefónica Foundation and Museo Reina Sofía affords an opportunity to reconsider conventional Activities Seminars and conferences
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play pause stop 00:00 00:00 Download Lecture by Joana Cunha Leal. The Uncertain Modernism of Amadeo de Souza Cardoso. Appropriation, Drifting, Dislocation Other Criteria. Cubism(s) in Modern Art. Joana Cunha Leal April 5, 2018 The joint presentation of the Cubism Collections of the Telefónica Foundation and Museo Reina Sofía affords an opportunity to reconsider conventional Activities Seminars and conferences
Archipelago 2018. Concert series In its second edition, Archipelago asserts its approach to listening as a form of both knowledge and aesthetic pleasure. Attendants are encouraged to approach the complexities of the cotemporary world not only through the ear, but also through the body, by absorbing sound with all their organs and bones.Participants: Janneke van der Putten, Agnès Pe, Hashigakari, Tutu, Clara de Asís, Cedrick Fermont, Toukadime, Sofyann Ben, Youssef (Ammar 808), Áine O’Dwyer, Tarawangsawelas + Rabih Beaini, Nadah El Shazly, Errorsmith and Dj Lag. Activities Live Arts
The Words of Others by León Ferrari A Theatre of the Present This video assembles a series of interviews, carried out in conjunction with the presentation of León Ferrari's literary collage The Words of Others, which explore the Argentinean artist's approaches to his work and the challenges and research entailed in staging this theatre piece in the Museo Reina Sofía.Participants: Ruth Estévez. Independent researcher. In charge of direction and mise en scène. Ana Longoni. Director of Public Activities, Museo Reina Sofía. Javier del Olmo. Representative of the León Ferrari Foundation. José Antonio Sánchez. Researcher. In charge of dramaturgy and mise en scène. Isabel de Naverán. Dance advisor, Museo Reina Sofía. Live Arts
Luis Camnitzer. Hospice of Failed Utopias This retrospective offers a global, contextualised view of the Uruguayan artist Luis Camnitzer’s multi-faceted work, spanning nearly sixty years. As an essayist, art critic, curator, teacher, lecturer and a creator of objects, actions and musical compositions, Camnitzer focuses on art’s transformative capacity, viewing it essentially as a product of reflection. His practice, whether it be artistic, or through his essays or teaching, is defined by its approach to the controversial issues of our times: the criticism of art-commodity, the demystification and obsolescence of the role of the artist in consumer society, or the capacity of neoliberal societies to turn education into an instrument of propaganda. Exhibitions
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