03 feb. 2022 – 05 jun. 2022
IVAM Centre Julio González
floor 2, G7
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The core idea behind Endgame is to survey the painterly grammar of Jordi Teixidor (Valencia, 1941) in the field of abstraction over the course of the last six decades. The show includes early works from his beginnings as a painter within the orbit of the avant-garde art groups Nueva Generación and Antes del Arte, as well as a select number of paintings from the most notable series in his longstanding career set in dialogue with works from the IVAM collection.
In this regard, the exhibition pays special attention to Teixidor’s more recent and previously unseen output while also tracing some of the sources of inspiration behind his experimentation in the field of abstract painting through the inclusion of works by Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt or Juan van der Hamen.
Endgame is rounded off with a series of little-known working material from the artist’s personal archive: notepads and sketch books, polaroids, plans and charts evincing the complex methods employed by Teixidor to carry out his paintings and the numerous exhibitions of his work over the years. Teixidor obsessively explores the very physicity of painting itself, the limits of space and the vibrant tension between geometry and gesturality.
07 oct. 2021
IVAM Centre Julio González
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Conversation on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition ‘An exercise in violence’, between the artist Guillermo Ros and Nuria Enguita, curator of the exhibition and director of IVAM.
The entrance to this exhibition is the entrance to the imaginary of Guillermo Ros, of his way of seeing and understanding the art world, of his peculiar analysis of the context in which he (over)lives and works. The room presents an imposed route: the viewer must start his visit on the first floor and climb the stairs to continue on an upper floor. As if it were a video game, we find frozen scenes on two levels, two different environments in which the struggle takes place.
Without a doubt, Gallery 6 of the IVAM is an architecturally complicated room: low ceilings, columns and various imposed elements. But Guillermo Ros has come precisely to fight against these. In this conversation Guillermo Ros will share his initial research, as well as the work processes with which he has faced the museum project.
21 and 22 oct. 2021
IVAM Centre Julio González
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On the occasion of the exhibition Renau in exile IVAM organizes an international seminar that brings together experts and researchers whose lectures will connect with the exhibition in different ways. Some lectures provide a contextualized and broader look at the exile, others focus on Renau’s relationship with other friends and artistic environments, or with the specific creative forms with which Renau worked during his exile (mainly mural painting and photomontage). Without the intention of being exhaustive or conclusive, this seminar intends, however, to open conversations and bring together experts to jointly discuss topics of interest and to emphasize the connection between professional, geographical and linguistic areas.
All the presentations are unpublished, and the intention is to include the research shared in the exhibition and the catalog in the debates. In this way, the seminar pretends to recover the figure of Renau, and explore his life and career. Like this we try to demonstrate his importance in the twentieth century, as well as the relevance of his work today. Aside from the five lectures, the seminar will close with a panel discussion featuring three experts whose primary research on Renau focuses on reviewing his earlier studies, his biography and/or his work from the 1930s. All of this will be analyzed through the retrospective lens of Renau’s exile, and the lessons learned from the exhibition.
Thursday, October 21, 2021
Friday, October 22nd, 2021
25 oct. 2021 – 30 oct. 2021
IVAM Centre Julio González
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(間)
Ma is a japanese term which has been described as a pause in time, an interval or emptiness in space.
However, in contrast to the sense of emptiness (Mu) the Ma is a conscious space, that space would be full of energy and could induce a state in which it is possible to appreciate the expansion of space and time. In that sense the emptiness of Ma is a space of potentiality.
In this edition, the Radicantes cycle explores the “Ma”. Three artists share with us their own practices of Ma, Carme Torrent, Dd Dorvillier and Quim Bigas. The last one is in the place of the Ma, the middle place, offering a space of relationship and consciousness.They propose three spaces that act as generatrices and blur the limits of things.
For Quim Bigas‘ proposal, a working group of 15 people interested in the body as an instrument of creation will be organized. The group will start in September until the last week of October. It will work together with him, based on the processes and practices of the other two artists and their own imaginary, sharing a context of physical practice that will move between the discursive, the digression and the concrete.
From September 15 to October 4, online sessions as correspondence between participants. During the week of October 4 to 9 and the week of October 25 to 30 the work will be face-to-face from 10 am to 1 pm.
People interested in being part of the working group with Quim Bigas should register at ivam@consultaentradas.com attaching some motivational words.
For more information about the artists and their proposals download the PDF.
10 sep. 2021
IVAM Centre Julio González
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Mechanical and Technical Imaginaries is a new reading from the IVAM collection, through more than 200 artworks, which illustrates the interest of artistic practices in imagining the mechanical conception of the universe by borrowing elements from industrial, scientific and technical procedures, new materials, big inventions or means of transport and communication.
The curator, M.ª Jesús Folch, takes us on a visit to the 10 rooms that make up the exhibition, during which she will bring us closer to the main artistic research that took place throughout the 20th century and will help us to understand the connection between science, art and technology. The exhibition is structured along thematic lines that act as communicating vessels crossing transversely through the rooms. They analyze issues and concepts that arise and reappear in distant chronological times such as the interdependence between technology and corporeality (Umbo, Arturo Ballester or Pere Catála Pic, Gary Hill, Daniel Canogar, Maribel Domenech or Jana Sterback); the interest in new materials and science-based technicalities (Naun Gabo, Cesar Domela, Moholy Nagy, Marcel Duchamp, Soledad Sevilla, Elena Asins, José Mª Yturralde, Pablo Palazuelo); the transition from experimental cinema, overloaded with dynamic montages, to the conceptual practice of the video camera, full of socio-political criticism (Joris Ivens, Jean Mitry, Germaine Dulac, Joan Jonas, Dara Birnbaum, Miralda and Benet Rossell); mechanical imaginaries, mass production methods and industrial landscapes (Germaine Krull, Agustín Jiménez Espinosa, Boris Ignatovich, Joan Cardells, Gabriela Kraviez, Susana Solano, Bernd and Hilla Becher or Thomas Ruff); the treatment of female working conditions (Valentina Kulagina and Natalia Pinus or Inmaculada Salinas);and the visionary machines that connect historical spaces, social situations, natural elements and existentialist concepts (Gilberto Zorio, Ángeles Marco, Fischli & Weis, Gordon Matta Clarck, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle or Carlos Sáez).
15 sep. 2021
IVAM Centre Julio González
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Presentation of the exhibition Mona Hatoum, by the artist.
The exhibition pays tribute to Mona Hatoum, winner of the 2020 Julio González Award, through a selection of key works by the artist, including sculptures, large-scale installations and artworks on paper, mostly created over the last two decades, some of which have already achieved iconic status in contemporary art.
During the presentation Mona Hatoum will make a tour of the rooms, and through the images of the works that compose the exhibition, she will talk about her interest in creating simple and reductionist pieces that have an emotional and psychological impact on the viewer, as well as the deliberate incorporation in her works of paradoxical layers of meaning that generate an ambiguity and ambivalence that make possible different and contradictory readings of her creations.
Mona Hatoum was born into a Palestinian family in Beirut in 1952. While on a short visit to London in 1975 the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War prevented her from returning home and she has lived in London ever since. She has held solo exhibitions in numerous museums in Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia. She has also participated in many important international exhibitions including the Venice Biennale (1995 and 2005), Documenta, Kassel (2002 and 2017), Biennale of Sydney (2006) and Istanbul Biennial (1995 and 2011). Recent solo exhibitions include a major survey organised by Centre Pompidou, Paris (2015), Tate Modern, London and KIASMA, Helsinki (2016-2017).
23 sep. 2021
IVAM Centre Julio González
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In the framework of the exhibition “Mechanical and Technical Imaginaries in the IVAM Collection“, the artist Gary Hill will give a lecture in which he will share with the audience his reflections and research on image and video.
“For quite some time I have considered the video as a kind of past event that has been subsumed by spectacle, which incorporates ever-increasing resolution, infinitely configurable massive screens, and usually pervasive sound.
Language is not the virus. The image is the virus and it doesn’t come from outer space; it’s insidious and it’s everywhere, here and now.” Gary Hill
Bio
Gary Hill (b. 1951, Santa Monica, CA) has worked with a broad range of media – including sculpture, sound, video, installation and performance – since the early 1970’s. His longtime work with intermedia continues to explore an array of issues ranging from the physicality of language, synesthesia and perceptual conundrums to ontological space and viewer interactivity.
Exhibitions of his work have been presented at museums and institutions worldwide, including solo exhibitions at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel; Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona; and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, among others.
He commissioned projects include works for the Science Museum in London and the Seattle Central Public Library in Seattle, Washington, and an installation and performance work for the Coliseum and Temple of Venus and Rome in Italy. Hill has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations, and has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, most notably the Leone d’Oro Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale (1995), a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award (1998), the Kurt-Schwitters-Preis (2000), and honorary doctorates from The Academy of Fine Arts Poznan, Poland (2005) and Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA (2011).
Hill has also collaborated with several artists, including George Quasha and Charles Stein on the publication An Art of Limina: Gary Hill’s Works & Writings. Or in 1998 he collaborated with the choreographer Meg Stuart and her dance company Damaged Goods to produce Splayed Mind Out, which was performed over 50 times in Europe, South America and the United States.
His most recent project is a book, You Know Where I’m At and I Know Where You’re At, written in “collaboration” with the spirit of the american native Martin Cothren (1960 – 2016), and published by Dis Voir in Paris (2021).
23 jul. 2021 – 31 aug. 2021
IVAM Centre Julio González
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In summer the IVAM… does not close!
To immerse ourselves in a well-deserved summer break without giving up the pleasure of enjoying modern and contemporary art, the museum has prepared a rich menu of contents. In this way, you can access, permanently and for free, some of the main exhibitions and activities that have taken place at IVAM recently.
The repertoire includes audiovisual content, family activities and publications. Visiting IVAM, comfortably from anywhere, has never been easier.
In addition, the doors of the museum remain open during the months of July and August, uninterrupted and with free access. You can check the opening hours and schedule your visit here.
Whether you visit us from a distance or in person… thank you for joining us this summer!
LET’S PLAY!
Summer is a time to rest and, also, to play. Therefore, at IVAM we’re inviting families to visit us during the months of July and August and to join us with family activities that invite you to explore the museum, in person or at home.
The autonomous games Apardalats and Autolocos are designed and activated by Javier Molinero during the whole year in the courtyard of the IVAM, and this summer they are transformed into free play kits that can be borrowed during the opening time of the museum, to enjoy the different spaces of the museum while playing! Ask for them at the museum’s access point. +Info here
With this material, you will be able to explore and move, at home or in the museum, based on the main sculptures of Julio González, a key part of the IVAM collection. With this material designed, in the first instance, for teachers of different educational levels, you will be able to dance the artworks with a series of choreographic improvisation tools by Rudolf Von Laban. You can request the dossier and access to the explanatory video at the following telephone and email: ivam@consultaentradas.com or 976004973 (Monday to Saturday from 9-20h).
Based on the exhibition Infinite Sculpture (May 21 – October 24, 2021) at IVAM Alcoi, this proposal has been designed as a booklet of educational actions. With them you can improvise, create and reflect with the Spanish sculpture of the twentieth century, from our point of view as spectators of the XXI century. Ask for it by phone or email: ivam@consultaentradas.com or 976004973 (Monday to Saturday from 9-20h).
23 jul. 2021 – 31 aug. 2021
IVAM Centre Julio González
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IVAM A LA FRESCA (IVAM IN THE COOL)
In summer the IVAM… does not close!
To immerse ourselves in a well-deserved summer break without giving up the pleasure of enjoying modern and contemporary art, the museum has prepared a rich menu of contents. In this way, you can access, permanently and for free, some of the main exhibitions and activities that have taken place at IVAM recently.
The repertoire includes audiovisual content, family activities and publications. Visiting IVAM, comfortably from anywhere, has never been easier.
In addition, the doors of the museum remain open during the months of July and August, uninterrupted and with free access. You can check the opening hours and schedule your visit here.
Whether you visit us from a distance or in person… thank you for joining us this summer!
EN BUCLE (IN LOOP)
Enjoy the conversations and conferences of artists and specialists that have taken place at IVAM during the last months:
23 jul. 2021 – 31 aug. 2021
IVAM Centre Julio González
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IVAM A LA FRESCA (IVAM IN THE COOL)
In summer the IVAM… does not close!
To immerse ourselves in a well-deserved summer break without giving up the pleasure of enjoying modern and contemporary art, the museum has prepared a rich menu of contents. In this way, you can access, permanently and for free, some of the main exhibitions and activities that have taken place at IVAM recently.
The repertoire includes audiovisual content, family activities and publications. Visiting IVAM, comfortably from anywhere, has never been easier.
In addition, the doors of the museum remain open during the months of July and August, uninterrupted and with free access. You can check the opening hours and schedule your visit here.
Whether you visit us from a distance or in person… thank you for joining us this summer!
(CON)TEXTOS
Immerse yourself in the reading of the main articles and publications that IVAM has published in physical and/or digital media during the last months:
14 jul. 2021
IVAM Centre Julio González
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The showing of the documentary Llorenç Barber & Monserrat Palacios – Outsider of Sound will be attended by the artists and will offer a 62-minute preview of the documentary, which has been made by art historian and critic Joan J. Soler Navarro for the magazine and channel Sinergias.
During the 240 minutes, the documentary goes through the career and delves into the artistic importance of Llorenç Barber. Robert Ahsley said about the musician in 1991 that he was “the most brilliant composer of today’s young Spanish generation. When it rings the bells, it is one of the most important experiences of new music recently heard in Europe”. In the documentary, Llorenç Barber talks to us, as the main protagonist, about the birth of sound art in Spain from the influences of John Cage and Stokhausen, and its spread with his friend and contemporary Juan Hidaldo (ZAJ) Fluxus.
The film also reveals why they both chose the bell as an instrument of artistic expression and discusses some of the 400 concerts given on five continents. He has sometimes directed (or coordinated) 200 people in each musical intervention, composed by Llorenç Barber, together with the sound artist Montserrat Palacios, the composer’s wife.
08 jul. 2021 – 09 jan. 2022
IVAM Centre Julio González
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Renau and The American Way of Life is a documentary exhibition that complements the one dedicated to Renau’s exile in Gallery 7. It explores the construction of the so-called ‘American way of life’ through a selection of copies of Life magazine together with documentation on Supermercado USA (Supermarket USA), an exhibition held at the Barcelona Trade Fair in 1959. This display was an event forming part of the policy of cultural expansion in Europe pursued by the United States government during the Cold War, a policy manifested largely in the massive propagation of images of domestic bliss and productive abundance, said by their promoters to symbolise the superiority and efficiency of their socio-economic model.
In a dialogue with these materials, we present works and archive documents by the artist Josep Renau related to the production of his series of photomontages The American Way of Life (1949-1976), probably one of the most ambitious and systematic efforts to analyse the iconographies defining the myth of the American dream. The artist saw these images as perverse instruments of seduction for a type of citizen mechanised and alienated by the manipulation of information and advertising in the mass media. The principal mission of this series of photomontages was to unmask that strategy.
