The exhibition brings together a series of works that seek critical viewers. Questioning social and political reality, consumer society, the media, advertising, the city, public space, and the presence of power and its mechanisms of social inclusion and exclusion, these artists present uncomfortable, acerbic, provocative works… A transversal proposal where the artistic creation process becomes the work itself or constructs and deconstructs a fragmentary reality.
The visit addresses issues of consumerism, the denunciation of the remnants of unbridled consumption that characterizes and obsesses human beings, and social commitment through linguistic games and the ironic juxtaposition of images...
Antoni Muntada's work On Translation: Miedo/Jauf seeks to explore "how fear –a cultural/sociological construction that always refers to the political and economic sphere– is an emotion translated on both sides of the border from very different perspectives". Based on the concept of fear, we gave the public the opportunity to express their idea of fear graphically or literally. This, in turn, became a collective work that was exhibited in a museum space. All school visits represented their idea of fear, and on International Museum Day the best ones were selected and awarded.
Opening hours:From Tuesday to Friday. School period, From 10:00 to 14:00 hours
Duration:90 minutes
Capacity:Minimum groups of 8 students and maximum of 25 or class group. Up to two groups are allowed at the same time and day
Type of activity:Workshop visit, Mediation
Modality:At the museum
Price:Gratuito previa reserva
Related exhibition
Spaces of Resistance
18.03.2016
-
26.06.2016
Spaces of Resistance brings together a series of works that share the common goal of seeking critical spectators. Questioning social and political reality, consumer society, the media, advertising, the city, public space, and the presence of power and its mechanisms of social inclusion and exclusion, these artists present uncomfortable, acerbic, provocative works… A cross-cutting proposal where the artistic creation process becomes the work itself or constructs and deconstructs a fragmentary reality. Through new formats, languages, media, and contemporary techniques—video, photography, installation, computer programs, or even traditional painting—the works displayed always demand an active and committed spectator. Heirs to the conceptual practices developed in Spain, especially in Catalonia and Andalusia in the 1960s and 1970s, and with a strong linguistic charge, these works draw a landscape of transgression of artistic behaviors that goes so far as to dematerialize art or construct it with archives, documents, image fragments, everyday objects, poor materials such as dust or cigarette butts, strange trinkets that acquire other meanings.Art functions thus as resistance. Artists contemplate their creative process solely from the perspective of social transcendence, from confrontation with power, but also from paradox, humor, or irony. Art as denunciation but also as a way of changing the world. Artistic practice becomes the only weapon of survival.
