Places categories: IVAM Centre Julio González

The didactic workshop “Confines. Passage of the Contemporary Arts ” is based on the work of the artist Esther Stocker, who tries to reflect the limit existing between the painting and the architecture. A limit understood as something that is on both sides of a border. The didactic activity is about the work “Untitled, 2006”, in which the public is a mere spectator, but afterwards, it turns into a part of it and even to being able to walk around it. This way the existing barrier between the work of art and the spectator is broken. This work begins with the investigation of the term “bundle” conceived as a cavity to be protected from external incursions and of being walked.

When some has acces to the didactic workshop the word “limit” is labeled in the floor. Once inside the workshop, in a few panels integrated inside the own space of the workshop, the tables and chairs are placed to be able to work in an individual form, about Stocker’s work, which proposes a reflection on the sense of the geometric abstraction, on the modalities of perception between work and spectator.

Primary forms, reticles, compositive geometries that vibrate for the interaction of “no colors”, white and black, constitute the only occasion to get in touch with an artistic tour that proposes the reflection on the conceptual and visual devices of the modernity. The participants will work with three dimensions and will create a model for a passable space. These compositions will me made with rods of wood that have to be assembled and later be painted in black color. It is a question of looking for in the white of the space and in the black of the structures, and this way creating a fluid, dynamic language, with great energetic presence. A global image intends to be provoked using the “no colors” where its components vibrate and play with our perception. It will be possible to observe the limits of a completely white space get lost, not knowing in which plan the black structures. On having a space a completely white our visual perception gets lost because it lacks references. Once the work is finished, every participant will be able to take his work.

The workshop will be displaying the projects made by the pupils from the schools which took part in it from November 22nd, 2009 to January 10th, 2010 during the museum’s opening hours. Each group will present a collective work using photography and photomontage, which will result in a collective exhibition where their experiences and impressions will be reflected.

The didactic workshop “The Red Line. Spanish abstract art in the IVAM Collection” is based on the works by artist Joan Brossa that are displayed in the exhibition under the same name, focusing on his calligrams and visual poems. The table on which participants will work has the shape of letter A and is painted red. On it newspaper cuttings will be used as the basic material for the workshop. Letter A is the letter par excellence in Brossa’s art. Participants will work on visual poems and a kind of poetry in which the image, the visual arrangement of the text, techniques and materials are important in the composition. This kind of non-verbal poetry is a unique genre in the field of experimental arts. Students will be provided with templates with letters, with which they will be able to work on the alphabet, and some newspapers, from which they will be able to extract images, words and typography. Then they will work independently to create their own compositions with crayons on DIN A4 cardboard. When the activity is completed, they can take their works home. Throughout the workshop it will be possible to listen to music by the composer Josep M. Mestres Quadreny, who worked with the artist on many an occasion.

The workshop lasts 1h. 30 min per group.
These workshops are addressed to all types of public: students, adults, occupational centres, etc.

The installation of Miquel Navarro “Una urbe en tus manos” is composed of hundreds of small gray aluminum parts distributed over 50 m2 that make up a city in which the participants are expected to freely create their own. It is a game that invites them to reshape and transform the space, moving the pieces from their site, placing them differently each time through the established perimeter.

In this city there are pieces with different shapes: cubic, conic, prismatic … The objective is, apart from the playful aspect, to make them discover the city, and develop their imagination to create their own vision of the city: horizontality, verticality, shape, structure … in essence, to project the vision of how they think and imagine the city.

The installation is designed with an educational purpose, the process of construction and de-construction is a fundamental premise in this piece-installation in which participants will build their imagined city.

This educational project welcomes all kinds of public, although it is designed essentially for children aged 5 to 12 who will be led by instructors that will briefly explain the cities of Miquel Navarro, which can be found in the room and invigorate the activity where this work-shop is installed, leaving the children free to build their own city. The groups taking part will be of 10 to 15 people.

This workshop, will be available from Tuesday to Friday at 10, 11, 12, 16, 17 and 18 hours for scheduled groups during the month of may, and Sundays for the general public at 11, 12 and 13 hours until July 13th. It will last a maximum of approximately forty-five minutes.

This activity will help to develop the creativity and artistic talent of the participants while civic notions of cooperation and respect for others, and the affirmation of one’s personality in a context of freedom and tolerance are reinforced.