Places categories: IVAM Centre Julio González

Conversation on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Industry/Matrices, threads and sounds, by Lorenzo Sandoval, artist and curator, and Tono Vizcaíno, archaeologist and heritage manager.

Industry. Matrices, threads and sounds is a hybrid proposal that is situated between the creation of an archive and an artistic project, developed by Lorenzo Sandoval and Tono Vizcaíno. Its objective is to offer a necessarily partial reading of Valencian industrial heritage based on the sound, the intangible and social movements.

During the conversation, they will introduce the proposal, which is developed through the compilation of sounds, processes, images, videos, music, art pieces and discourses linked to factories in their original context of use, but also in their abandonment and their conversion into heritage spaces. It focuses particularly on the proactive uses of industrial heritage driven by citizens. The project is positioned outside the romanticizing image of industrial ruin. Understanding heritage and history as living processes that allow us to generate conceptual tools to understand the past, present and future of the history of labor and its relationship with culture.

Lecture by Professor Víctor del Río on photography and visual culture in the context of the exhibition Imaginarios mecánicos y técnicos en la Colección del IVAM.

Víctor del Río holds a PhD in Philosophy and teaches Theory and History of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Salamanca. He is a member of the teaching staff of the Master of Advanced Studies in Philosophy at the same University, as well as of the Master in Photography, Art and Technique at the Universitat Politècnica de València.

This lecture is part of the public program prepared by IVAM on the occasion of the exhibition Imaginarios mecánicos y técnicos en la Colección del IVAM, which includes concerts, lectures, round tables and an artist’s workshop.

MATRIZ N005 – Castellón of the project Industria/ Matrices, tramas y sonidos by Lorenzo Sandoval and Tono Vizcaíno.

The project Industria / Matrices, tramas y sonidos, carried out by Lorenzo Sandoval and Tono Vizcaíno for the IVAM, has its last activity before the opening of the exhibition. It is «Matriz N005-Castellón».

La Plana de Castellón and its surroundings have a long tradition of industrial pottery production, which today still constitutes the main engine of its economy. This phenomenon means that a large part of its residents have been related to the factories in different ways.

In this meeting we will talk about the links between heritage and memory through the voices of different people involved in projects of recovery of the industrial past, driven both from institutions and civil society.

The session will be structured in two parts:

Interventions:

• Vicent Estall, Tile Museum of Onda.
• Teresa Artero, Alcora Ceramics Museum.
• Pilar Beltran, Entramats project.
• Nel-lo Navarro, oral memory Fábrica Segarra de Vall de Uxó.

Dialogue among the participants (open to the public).

Conversation about the presentation of the exhibition Cardiogram, between the artist Lola Lasurt and its curator Nuria Enguita.

Cardiogram is the new project that the artist Lola Lasurt specifically proposes for Gallery 6 of the IVAM, which has a visit she made to the Museu del Gremi Artesà de Fallers de València and the encounter of a pardoned ninot called Democracia, the work of the fallero artist José Azpeitia as its starting point.

The conversation pretends to establish an analogy between the aesthetic potential of pyrotechnic shots in sequence and the fundamentals of abstract painting, based on dodecaphonic scores. Likewise, the conversation will analyze the state of the system -personified in the ninot of Democracy- as an exercise of collective diagnosis that annually responds to the most immediate socio-political current events. This year, it is doubly suspended due to the pandemic.

Conversation between Guillaume Désanges and François Piron, curators of the exhibition Absalon, Absalon.

The exhibition of the artist known as Absalon (Israel, 1964 – France, 1994), co-produced by the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM) and the CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, has two main objectives: on one hand, to make clear the important contribution of this artist to the discourse of art produced in the 1990s; and on the other hand, to establish a dialogue between his creations and conceptual lines and those of some artists such as Robert Gober, Laura Lamiel or Mona Hatoum, or with the work of contemporary artists such as Myriam Mihindou or Dora García.

During the conversation, the curators propose the reinterpretation of the coldness of minimalist forms with an emotional and affective vocabulary, which emphasizes the loneliness of life and relationships, as well as the relationship with the human body, illness, precariousness and the end of life. All this through Absalon’s projects selected for the exhibition and the dialogues established with the other artists.