Tour carried out by Teresa Millet, curator of the exhibition.
This activity is free of charge. Priority for Honorary Members and Friends of the IVAM.
It is necessary to sign up 15 minutes before the start of the visit at the desk in the Hall of the IVAM. Limited places (first-come, first-served).
Talk-Colloquium “Freedom of expression and digital media” organized by Amnesty International.
Participants:
Among the activities organized by Chair of Art Studies. Centuries XX / XXI teachers Carme Manuel and Rebecca Romero will offer a conference.
19:00 h. Lecture of Carme Manuel, professor of American literature of the Department of Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya of Faculty of Philology, Comunicació i Traducció of the University of Valencia since 1992.
20:00 h. Lecture of Rebecca Romero, degree in Journalism and Communication Studies, and European PhD from the University of Valencia (UV).
CHAIR OF ARTISTIC STUDIES. 20th/21st CENTURIES
IVAM-UV-UPV (Institut Valencià d’Art Modern-Universitat de València-Universitat Politècnica de València)
Directors: Juan Vicente Aliaga / Vicente Sánchez-Biosca
The life in images of contemporary culture outruns the (material and immaterial) traditional spaces in which they were entrapped in the past, even the recent past. Their genres and registers, their ambits of circulation, their ceaseless migrations give the impression of offering a previously unknown experience of the real at the same time as, in an apparent paradox, they display a not in the least feigned technological pride.
Nevertheless, however much studies of the History of Art, Fine Arts, Journalism and Audiovisual Communication have attempted to adapt to the demands of this state of affairs, the lability of the borders between creation and reflection, technology and art, the media and the collective imaginary, among others, requires more ductile ambits of reflection and debate than those to be found in university studies and traditional research. On the other hand, unlike classical philology, palaeography, the exegesis of written texts and the image still presents an imbalance between its (emotional, conceptual, political, memory-based) impact and the instruments provided to analyse it.
The aim of Cátedra Estudios Artísticos, arising from the collaboration between the University of Valencia, the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the IVAM, 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.
Conversation between artist Joan Fontcuberta and Jorge Luis Marzo, curator of the exhibition “Fake. It’s not true, it’s not false”.
Picasso’s quote that “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth” is still valid today. Fake, that parasitical and concealed format that seems to be what it’s not, has become through many artists, and by endorsing the techniques of the enemy, a weapon that aims to short-circuit the massive manipulation of reality. But unlike the mere deceit, typical of commercial, political and, why not also, aesthetic marketing, the fake does not seek to perpetuate the appearance, but to quickly reveal the mechanisms and myths that make credibility possible, that is to ultimately question the linguistic forms of authority in the media, in museums, in the academic discourse, in the moral gossip mills. But there’s an added problem: fake often also becomes a part of the critical show as an authority format.
FAKE exhibition. It’s not true, it’s not false. The Art of Faking reviews some of the camouflages, infiltrations and sabotages undertaken by many artists around the world, since Orson Welles faked an alien invasion in order to prove the manipulative power of the media in a society which is increasingly constrained to certain formats of veracity.
Conversation between Javier Pérez Rojas, curator of the exhibition and Jose Ignacio Casar Pinazo, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia, on the occasion of the exhibition “Ignacio Pinazo and Avant-gardes. Elective affinities”.
The IVAM has scheduled one of the most special exhibitions to mark Ignacio Pinazo Carmarlench’s (1849-1916) centenary death, as homage to one of its most brilliant artists.
Pinazo’s work is widely represented in the IVAM’s Collection since its creation, and is, in fact, one of its foundations. Despite the artist significance, his works and presence have not always been understood and shared in a contemporary art museum’s permanent collection, with Julio González or other international avant-gardes representatives.
This exhibition breaks radically with those doubts, posing a new reading that notes the latent modernity signs in the paintings and drawings by Pinazo. The exhibition highlights a number of formal affinities and parallels with artists such as Julio González, Saura, Barceló, Bores, Cossío…, setting out new readings and stories that give value to IVAM’s Collection funds.
This exhibition reveals Pinazo’s potential and intuition, his capacity for abstraction and creative impulse, gestural expressive value and material element importance in many of his works, which fragments and details appear action painting premonitions.
Literature Festival “La lletraferida/La letraherida”
Content al IVAM “Literature Art / The art of literature”
6:00 pm. Colloquium among writers Javier Montes and Carlos Marzal, moderator Geles Mit.
7:30 pm. Colloquium among designers Manuel Estrada and Pepe Gimeno, moderator Nacho Lavernia.
Abierto Valencia, is an event organized by the Association of Art Galleries of Valencia, LaVAC, during the joint opening of the beginning of the artistic season of the galleries that are part of the association.
Critical Conversations, framed in the proposal Subalternities, designed to analyze the concept of the subaltern at various levels: culture in relation to politics; art with respect to culture; local versus global; the periphery against large capitals; Southern Europe facing the center and north of the continent …
Conversation between Merce Galan and Irene Ballester.
Irene Ballester Buigues, PhD in Art History from the Universitat de València and Master in Research Applied Feminist Studies, Gender and Citizenship by the Universitat Jaume I .
Mercè Galán, is Intermedia artist. Doctor of Fine Arts from the Universitat Politècnica de València and Specialist Visual Arts and Intermedia, with the thesis: Cautivas del Silencio.
Guided tour of the exhibition with Mª Jesús Folch, IVAM curator.
Free activity for Honorary Members and Friends of the IVAM. Also for the general public with a ticket to the Museum. Application must be made 15 minutes before the start of the tour at the counter in the IVAM entrance hall. Places limited (allocated by order of application). Visit limited to 30 people.
Project of Christian Boltanski and José Miguel G. Cortés
Seminar organized by the International University Menédez Pelayo, UIMP.
The IVAM hosts the meeting with Sabine Weiss one of the referents of humanistic photography, moderated by Jean- Pierre Bertin-Maghit, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3.
Meeting in French
On the occasion of LGBT Pride Day artist Pepe Miralles give the lecture “Representaciones “anestetizadas” de las diversidades sexuales: casos de estudio”
On the occasion of the exhibition “VLC. Valencia a clear line “Manuel Gimeno and Mique Beltrán made a presentation of their work.
In the sixties and seventies, Valencia underwent a spectacular creative moment. The creative avant-gardes rushed in in the form of groups like Equipo Crónica and Equipo Realidad, who had a crucial influence on the young people starting their artistic studies at that time. Young creators who, furthermore, had been reared on the culture of the comic, which enjoyed a boom in Valencia in the forties and fifties. The comics of Editorial Valenciana, Jaimito and Pumby, TBO and the publications of Bruguera like Pulgarcito generated a visual baggage that amalgamated during their student years with the new artistic trends that flooded the city and those that came from abroad: in France and the United States, the comic that had attracted them during their childhood years had turned into a model of counterculture and modernity, a message of freedom and innovation whose first important exponent was Miguel Calatayud. His comic strips in the magazine Trinca unquestionably inspired a generation that was beginning to express itself by means of fanzines inspired by underground culture, but with its own distinctive personality. Javier Mariscal embarked upon a path on which he was soon to be followed by other creators like Sento Llobell, Micharmut, Manel Gimeno, Mique Beltrán or Daniel Torres. Authors that began to experiment in these fanzines and soon moved on to national publications, taking advantage of the boom of comics for adults in the eighties. Magazines like Bésame Mucho, El Víbora, Cairo or Complot became the fundamental axis of expression for this generation of authors, who, with their clear, sharp lines broke down the established canons to find new expressions for the comic book where formal risk was a constant, although they also sought to vindicate the classic genres of comics of adventure. An explosive combination that amazed Europe, immersed in the vindication of the auteur comic.
The exhibition VLC. Valencia a Clear Line reviews this moment when the Valencian comic was at its greatest peak by examining the trajectory of seven of the major authors and showing the complex combination of influences that gave rise to that style and, besides, the in-depth relationship with their native city.
