The MACA inaugurates the exhibition Black/White: subject, space, perception
02.03.2011
The exhibition organized by the Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community in collaboration with the Chirivella Soriano Foundation can be visited until June 5th. According to the words of the exhibition curator Joan Robledo, the exhibition "is an approach to the work of various artists who, in the Spanish sphere from the end of the post-war period to the present day, have approached plastic creation from monochromatic works in white or black to the construction of a space that is articulated around opposite or complementary dualities". It is therefore an attempt to see this duality from a point of view that has been overlooked until now. Or in other words, to see beyond the properties of the positive-negative, light and darkness, which have been attributed to it so far. More information in the full note.
The exhibition "Black and White: Subject, Space and Perception" is an approach to the work of various artists who, in the Spanish sphere from the end of the post-war period to the present day, have approached plastic creation from monochromatic works in white or black to the construction of a space that is articulated around opposite or complementary dualities. Consequently, proposing an exhibition about color is to reflect on one of the central themes for contemporary creation. Among the successive vicissitudes that color underwent during the twentieth century, we observe how, from the Second World War to the present day, color underwent a continuous process that transformed it into a common and banal material within everyday life, which came to be mass-produced and standardized by commerce. In the artistic sphere its repercussions were no less significant, therefore, a certain number of artists formed a color palette far removed from any spiritual, intentional or significant will that, until then, the tradition of art had demanded.This new presentation of the exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante, which is based on the Collection of the Chirivella Soriano Foundation, is structured in four areas: Prelude on White; Individual Isolation, Society; Destruction and Love; and finally, Harmony of Opposites.
