‘This exhibition will examine the changes that took place in sexuality and morality in Europe in the period between the two world wars. During that time, one can observe the impact of conservatism on laws and the persistence of religious mores. At the same time, it is imperative to bear in mind the aftereffects of the Great War on the general population. The social crisis in which European societies were caught up and the fierce zest for life following such a dark period prompted the rise of forms of behaviour in individuals and groups that diverged from the dominant order. This newfound freedom in customs found a fertile terrain for expression in art. The use of photography facilitated the exposure of the body and nudity but other mediums—drawing, printing, painting, sculpture—were also used to capture this nonconformity with the moralizing norm. These expressions of freedom flourished more often in big cities like Berlin and Paris. That being said, censorship continued to be exercised and ongoing social and legal control was reflected in all kinds of repressive situations. The rise to power of Fascism and totalitarianism (Germany, Italy, Spain, Soviet Union) brought an end to this vision of a new society.’ J.V. Aliaga.
The exhibition includes over 180 artworks divided into seven sections: Cultures of the Body; The Bloomsbury Group and Other Aesthetics; Trauma and Desire; Under this Mask, Another Mask (Sous ce masque, un autre masque); The Depths of Sex; Salacious Times and Virile Totalitarianisms, featuring a range of drawings, paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures and films by more than 45 artists such as Hans Bellmer, Romaine Brooks, Brassaï, Federico García Lorca, Gluck, Duncan Grant, Hannah Höch, Tamara de Lempicka, Maruja Mallo, Jeanne Mammen, Néstor, Max Pechstein, Gregorio Prieto, Carol Rama, Rudolf Schlichter, Sascha Schneider, Suzanne Valadon, Ethel Walker and Gerda Wegener, as well as a selection of books, journals and other documentation from the period.
Warning: sexually explicit images
This is the first major solo show by Gülsün Karamustafa (Ankara, 1946) in Spain. And an excellent opportunity to familiarize ourselves with the work of arguably the most internationally acclaimed living Turkish artist and one of the most unique voices in contemporary art.
It would be nigh on impossible to understand her work unless we take into account what the city of Istanbul means both for her personal life and her art practice. Istanbul, not just for Turkey but also for the rest of the world, is much more than a metropolis at the crossroads between Asia and Europe, between the East and the East: one might even say that Istanbul is a world in itself.
Historically, Istanbul has always been a cosmopolitan city with a vast cultural and religious wealth; a geographic melting pot that makes it the true antithesis of homogenous culture. The coexistence and exchanges between the many highly different communities in the city have guaranteed the survival of its cultural legacy.
And Gülsün Karamustafa’s practice is solidly grounded in its culture and people, while at once looking outwards to the wider world, making her an artist fully engaged and committed with her time, keenly interested in pushing the envelope of concepts, materials, ideas and artistic spaces. She straddles two worlds (that have often turned their backs on one another) in order to offer us the best of both. She is a key artist in understanding that is no longer possible to conceive human life based on a world of irreconcilable opposites.
As one can see in this exhibition, in her work, Karamustafa teaches us how to open our minds, to be freer, to value those things that often elude us because we are blinded by stereotypes. Her works are like an open window on a virtually unknown world of great wealth.
On the occasion of the International Museum Day the IVAM presents, through its Youtube channel, a conversation between Nuria Enguita, Director of Bombas Gens Centre d’Art and José Miguel G. Cortés, Director of the IVAM, about “Museums after the pandemic”.
Connection through the IVAM Youtube Channel
The starting point for the specific project carried out by Jorge Peris (Alzira, 1969) was his return in 2011 to Valencia, the city where he began his training as an artist. Specifically, he went back to El Palmar, which involved meeting memories, but also the landscape of the Albufera and all its surroundings.
In Gallery 6 Jorge Peris constructs an unusual inhabited place with an installation that plays with the exhibition area, with its diagonals and columns and its staircase. He materialises his imagery, constructing it with characters that are revealed as visitors make their way through the exhibition and that take on various forms, overlapping times and places in a single dimension.
In 2019–2020 the IVAM and the Advanced Study Centre (Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía) are continuing the series of musical performances that began in 2015, offering one performance a month from October 2019 to June 2020.
The main aims of this collaboration between the IVAM and Les Arts are to stimulate mutual involvement in the programmes of the two institutions and to show the inexorable link between different arts. A further objective is to place the cultural image of the Valencian Community in a position of prestige and to underline the importance of culture in the development of contemporary societies.
RESERVATION CLOSED
In 2019–2020 the IVAM and the Advanced Study Centre (Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía) are continuing the series of musical performances that began in 2015, offering one performance a month from October 2019 to June 2020.
The main aims of this collaboration between the IVAM and Les Arts are to stimulate mutual involvement in the programmes of the two institutions and to show the inexorable link between different arts. A further objective is to place the cultural image of the Valencian Community in a position of prestige and to underline the importance of culture in the development of contemporary societies.
In 2019–2020 the IVAM and the Advanced Study Centre (Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía) are continuing the series of musical performances that began in 2015, offering one performance a month from October 2019 to June 2020.
The main aims of this collaboration between the IVAM and Les Arts are to stimulate mutual involvement in the programmes of the two institutions and to show the inexorable link between different arts. A further objective is to place the cultural image of the Valencian Community in a position of prestige and to underline the importance of culture in the development of contemporary societies.
STREAMING AT IVAM YOUTUBE CHANNEL
Lecture “Complex Realism, the Power of Residues” by Agustín Fernández Mallo, graduate in Physical Sciences and writer.
CHAIR OF ARTISTIC STUDIES. 20th/21st CENTURIES
IVAM-UV-UPV-UMH (Institut Valencià d’Art Modern-Universitat de València-Universitat Politècnica de València-Universidad Miguel Hernández)
Directors: Giulia Colaizzi/ Marina Pastor
The aim of second edition of the Chair of Artistic Studies, will consist in encouraging this reflection about the life of images both in the world of art and in social life, including imaginary. It will do so broadmindedly, avoiding academic, artistic or technological restrictions, but, nevertheless, thriving on and taking advantage of all the academic, museum-based and institutional aids at its disposal. For that reason, the fact that it is held at the IVAM is propitious because it can enrich its activities with the reflection about exhibitions, installations or lectures, and also the series of projections.
In 2019–2020 the IVAM and the Advanced Study Centre (Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía) are continuing the series of musical performances that began in 2015, offering one performance a month from October 2019 to June 2020.
The main aims of this collaboration between the IVAM and Les Arts are to stimulate mutual involvement in the programmes of the two institutions and to show the inexorable link between different arts. A further objective is to place the cultural image of the Valencian Community in a position of prestige and to underline the importance of culture in the development of contemporary societies.
Posar el cos is the title of the IVAM’s programme of living arts for which the fundamental premise consists in taking the body and all its potentialities as the focus of the museum’s research and experimentation, and its relationship with the other bodies that are also present in the museum.
It is a declaration of intentions in which the strategies of exhibition and contemplation are surpassed and make way for new approaches in which the ephemeral, the unforeseeable, the relational, the processual and the unfinished invert the established terms of a visit to the museum and generate new ways of relating and possibilities of inhabiting space.
This project is formulated on the basis of various proposals that are enacted during the course of the year, for which various associates act as curators. In this first event, Néstor García Díaz launches a reflection on how the processes of museification of choreography have led to the development of new narratives concerning objects and how they are exhibited.
Performance Loie Fuller: Research by Ola Maciejewska
Loie Fuller was an American dancer and actress, a pioneer of modern dance. She shared the European fascination with Orientalism and drew inspiration from dances with veils, spiral forms and serpentine movements in search of the concept of sublime beauty.
In this piece Ola Maciejewska looks at Loie Fuller’s experiments with form and places them in the context of the museum, exploring the possible parallels between such experiments and the practice of sculpture.
This event is one of a series of activities designed in connection with the exhibition Orientalism.
In 2019–2020 the IVAM and the Advanced Study Centre (Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía) are continuing the series of musical performances that began in 2015, offering one performance a month from October 2019 to June 2020.
The main aims of this collaboration between the IVAM and Les Arts are to stimulate mutual involvement in the programmes of the two institutions and to show the inexorable link between different arts. A further objective is to place the cultural image of the Valencian Community in a position of prestige and to underline the importance of culture in the development of contemporary societies.
