Reminiscences. Art and Culture Against Alzheimer's, 2013
Older people, Social
7 October 2013 - 26 May 2014
In this II edition, the visits tour the exhibition of permanent collections, carefully designed for their enjoyment and understanding, as well as to encourage reactions, reflections, conversations, or activities around art and artists, but also around the sensations and emotions they may provoke.
We visit and work around temporary exhibitions: Palazuelo. Caligrafías musicales, Serigrafías de Ibero-Suiza. Colección UPV, De la naturaleza humana. Colección Fundación Caja Mediterráneo, at the MACA, and José Luis Serzo. Blinki Rotred y el juego de los ajos, and Música, teatro y tradición at Cigarreras Cultura Contemporánea
Furthermore, this project documents the evolution and impact that the program has on participants and a subsequent evaluation of its effectiveness.
Cubism was more than an avant-garde movement; it was the artistic movement that inaugurated modernity. There was not a single cubism but many cubisms. Founded in Paris at the end of the first decade of the twentieth century by Braque and Picasso, its temporal limits extend beyond the 1920s, when other artists joined to redefine it.Cubism proposes a revolutionary way of painting based on an intense work of deconstructing reality, of renouncing conventional perspective, of absence of details and of geometrizing forms. By modifying the way of depicting the nature of everyday objects, cubism changed forever the way of looking at painting: now the viewer must traverse planes, lines and colors, arranged according to their own rhythm that demands not only sensory contemplation, but also an intellectual exercise of reconstruction. An aesthetic legacy that has endured over time.The exhibition is structured in three areas. We open the exhibition with the work of contemporary artists who worked in Paris, the vision of other cubisms, and we close the exhibition with the international expansion of the movement, reflected in the presence of Spanish and Latin American artists. The nucleus of the collection, which occupies the central space of the exhibition, consists of 11 exceptional pieces by the Madrid-born artist Juan Gris.Juan Gris is the painter of mystical geometry and this is how Eusebio Sempere discovers and admires him when in 1977 he acquires, with great economic effort, the canvas Still Life with Napkin that we preserve in the Art of the Twentieth Century Collection of this Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante (MACA) and which became the first Juan Gris exhibited in a Spanish public collection. This exhibition serves as a tribute to such generosity.
MACA is a living and dynamic museum, which is why the educational team has offered complementary activities since its inception to showcase the creative processes and references of contemporary art. Each year the museum renews its proposals for the different levels of formal education. These are projects related to the permanent collections and temporary exhibitions. The ultimate goal of the different proposals is to promote the construction of a critical perspective, learn to observe the works, enjoy the information that can be useful for understanding and appreciating each piece, and have the necessary keys so that each student can face contemporary art without inhibitions.Since its opening, the museum's educational team has committed to inclusive education. Throughout the year, multiple projects are developed for attention to diversity and social awareness, whose purpose has been and is to promote effective integration and real accessibility for all to art, culture, and the museum. To this end, the museum regularly organizes programs, projects, guided visits, and workshops for groups with physical, psychological, sensory, intellectual, or mental functional diversity, as well as for groups in situations of social vulnerability.We are fully convinced that attention to all audiences should be a priority, and in that way we plan and organize educational activities in order to serve all people.All projects are developed and directed by museum educator and mediator Ester García Guixot.
