Places categories: IVAM Centre Julio González

As part of the presentation and subsequent inauguration of the exhibition Un contínuum común indefinidamente liso (An endlessly smooth common continuum), curator Diana Guijarro will give the talk Hardcore continuum. A meeting that will serve as a prelude to the exhibition and that will invite other links to be generated with the works in the IVAM Collection and its exhibition space.

The curatorial proposal delves into more than 100 works from the IVAM Collection that are connected with other pieces from the La Caixa Collection and the MUSAC Collection to project other views towards the contemporary. An exercise through which to analyze artistic, social and cultural contexts from another point of view; reviewing and revisiting various events that can be traced throughout the works and that reveal to us the impulses that manage to risk the identity of the story.

The exhibition uses the pieces as a necessary guiding thread that helps us reflect on various topics, such as the changing nature of the museum institution, the role of the artist and his identity, or the anticipations of various movements that changed our responses to art.

In a current moment in which official contemporaneity is an era with hardly any time and established elements, we find ourselves witnessing a strange simultaneity of events in which things do not begin or end, but remain in a constant reverberation.

This exhibition is configured as a tool that gives us the opportunity to generate other readings of the works and that makes it possible to become new traffickers of symbols to discover that the interesting thing is not to define what is contemporary but to discover when it is.

Diana Guijarro is an independent curator and teacher. His research activity has focused on the study of exhibition spaces, analyzing the conceptualization of their discourses and the different museographic elements, understanding them as a field full of resources.

Un contínuum común indefinidamente liso (An endlessly smooth common continuum)
7:00 p.m. Presentation
8:00 p.m. Opening and cocktail

Within the framework of the Llorenç Barber exhibition. Listening Archive, we organize this day, curated by Lorenzo Sandoval and Montserrat Palacios, which reviews and updates the artist’s work.

Barber’s work is a continuous summoning of the relationships of the living. The title of this lecture session is taken, first of all, from one of his original city concerts, which refers to an inscription present on a bell. The second part comes from one of his pieces: Ex Humiitas Sonus. Obice sonata for waters and flute(s) (1978) Both indicate the importance of the notion of ecosystem in Llorenç Barber’s practice.

Both the city and the outdoors are active agents in the practice of this unique musician and artist, who understands spaces not as backgrounds on which to act, but as elements that participate in the acoustic production of his proposals. The conference by Siegfried Zielinski offer us various entry points into the artist’s work, from ecology and city music.

PROGRAM

6:00 p.m. – About the city as a music box, instrument and open space-time machine. Siegfried Zielinski

We invite you to join us in the presentation and subsequent inauguration of Pinazo: identities, a new reading of the work of the artist Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench.

The curator and professor of Art History Vicente Pla will give a conference prior to the opening in which he will give us some of the keys to this exhibition. The exhibition will open in the Pinazo room, recently restored, which houses the Christian-Mudejar wall.

Pinazo: identities proposes a new reading of Pinazo’s work as an artist who, consciously and systematically, dedicated a good part of his reflections, his work process and his work to the representation of people, in their individual and collective dimensions. and genealogical, as transmitters, receivers and interpreters of identities. The proposal would be materialized by deploying this approach across three areas in each of which representational problems would intersect with different regimes of implicit temporalities, political contexts, ways of doing things and gestures.

The IVAM Collection will provide the most important part of the works on display: foreseeably about 50 paintings plus around 100 drawings, which would be complemented by another 20 and 50 respectively from the Pinazo House-Museum, an amount to be determined, but not greater than 20 in total, of paintings and drawings lent by the Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Valencia and a few paintings from private Valencian collections. An important visual role is also proposed for some of the artist’s unpublished texts.

Vicente Pla Vivas (Sagunt, 1962) is a professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Valencia. Specialized in the problems generated by images during the historical processes of implementation of modernity, in the study and interpretation of the European graphic image widely disseminated during the 19th century, as well as Valencian art from the final decades of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century and photography.

Pinazo: identities
7:00 p.m. Presentation
8:00 p.m. Opening and cocktail