THIS [NO] IS A BOOK, a new activity for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante (MACA), on the occasion of the temporary exhibition TEXT [NO TEXT] Books and Artist Publications. Universitat Politècnica de València Collection. It is a project through which anyone who wants to participate (yes, YOU TOO!) will be able to create an Artist's Book based on a series of literary, visual, photographic and visual activities that we will publish in a dossier and that will serve as a guide and content for this artistic creation.

This is an activity that is not exclusive to any group, we insist. Our intention is for it to be global, inclusive and intergenerational, that it can be done at home, individually or as a family, in educational or social centers, by different groups of any kind and, of course, by artists. Although, as we usually say, we are all creators, we are all artists!

In light of the circumstances we are experiencing and that everyone already knows about, the project will initially be carried out outside the museum, but we will monitor all the creations you send us, to publish them on our networks, and to be able to show the results of an activity that, we guarantee you, will be creative and also a lot of fun.

In this link you will find the complete guide of activities so you can start creating your [NO] book.

«Altre Temps» is a visit that will transport you to another time.

Exploring the works and artists of the Mediterranean Foundation Collection of the MACA is like stopping the sands and hands of clocks, because this experience will take each participant beyond the timeline. Sometimes, you will feel that you are in the past, at other times you will be aware of your present, and almost always, reflection will lead you to direct your gaze toward the future.

During this tour, you will have references and inspiration from

artists such as Joan Brossa, Carmen Calvo, Miquel Barceló, Antoni Tàpies, among others. Each step will be filled with reflection,

creativity and emotion. «Altre Temps» is a free and inclusive activity, aimed at all people and groups. Our objective is to make the museum accessible to all citizens.

In this tour, we question traditional gender roles

in contemporary art with the aim of fostering critical and reflective thinking, generating a dialogue around new codes of communication and representation. We seek to broaden visitors' perspectives to promote a critical view and provide a clearer and more accurate vision of reality.

The tour focuses on addressing the value of diversity, detecting

prejudices, exploring identity and understanding what organizes our

society from multiple perspectives. Through the exploration of contemporary artworks that challenge gender norms, we want to invite visitors to rethink gender categories and to participate in a broader conversation about inclusion and equality in art and in society.

This tour offers an immersion into the world of artists who

reflect on and interpret the portrait genre through various artistic languages, addressing vital aspects of great relevance in formal education such as identity, personality development, and the choice of an external image that is shown to others.

Art is revealed as a powerful intercultural tool, with unlimited possibilities that make it a key resource in education in values such as diversity, equality, and dignity. Through art, students can learn about the customs and behaviors predominant in other cultures, fostering intercultural dialogue and generating new realities and

perspectives.

It is a mediation project aimed at groups with different abilities, functional diversity or at risk of social exclusion, to motivate, discover and learn through art by providing them with the possibilities of contemporary creation and reflection

offered by MACA, for their enjoyment and improvement of living and leisure conditions.

SORPRENDE is much more than a conventional guided tour, it is about immersing yourself in MACA's 20th Century Art Collection which, by the way, is one of the greatest artistic treasures of this city. An ideal place to learn, discover, be inspired and, above all, be surprised. This visit will be accompanied by an easy-to-read notebook that rediscovers artists and works from a different perspective, with an approach that starts from the playful to reach the pedagogical and, of course, emphasizing inclusion.

This tour proposes an approach to artists who reflect on and interpret the genre of portraiture with different artistic languages to address various vital aspects of great interest in formal education, such as identity, the development of personality, and the choice of an external image to present to others.

The possibilities that art offers as an intercultural tool are unlimited, being a key resource in education in values such as diversity, equality, and dignity, helping to understand customs and behaviors predominant in other cultures, promoting dialogue and generating new realities.

The objective of this tour is to get to know the artists and works that participate in geometric abstraction, optical

and kinetic trends. Through the MACA collections, we will approach the first artists who participated in the Le Mouvement exhibition in Paris up to the Spanish abstract artists of the second half of the 20th century and early 21st century. Always considering Eusebio Sempere as the maximum representative of this trend in Spain.

Through this artist from Alicante, we will delve into the world of abstraction with compositions that dispense with all figurative reference and propose a reality different from the natural one. Furthermore, Juana introduces us to the artists of her time who, like her, incorporate all kinds of objects and materials foreign to the work of art and propose gesturality as a way to transmit emotions.

Material Experiments. (Workshop for primary school)

It is about experimenting with some of the materials that these artists used, using gesture as a new way to express and create their own composition.

Plastic Experiments. (Workshop for secondary school)

Based on the work of Millares, Juana Francés and Zóbel, we try to explore the different materials and textures with which a work can be created and thus experiment with different techniques and create volumes.

In the 20th century, the artistic paradigm changes and other possibilities of expression become known. The world changes drastically due to political conflicts, technological advances, and artistic ruptures.

Guided tour designed to learn about those artistic styles that emerged during the 20th century and that revealed the desire to break with the past. Historical events were decisive in the trajectory of artistic avant-gardes.

With this tour aimed at primary school students, we propose a new perspective on reality based on forms and free relationships between them.

The artists we work with are Joan Miró, Alberto Sánchez, Pablo Gargallo, Julio González, Juan Gris.

Building Expressions. (Workshop)

It is about fostering imagination by experimenting with different forms of expression and composing a figure based on their own codes of interpretation.

The objective of the tour, but aimed at secondary and high school students, is to reflect on concepts and ideas related to the historical period and to learn about some of the most important artistic avant-gardes: Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Abstraction, Pop Art, and Social Realism.

Exquisite Corpse*. (Workshop)

This activity aims to reinforce knowledge related to the realities depicted in works from different collections through the exquisite corpse* technique.

*A word game invented by surrealist artists through which many more ways of drawing ideas or images from an image are created.

Sempere is our most representative artist. His concerns and artistic pursuits around light, movement, and geometry bring him close to these artists he meets in Paris: Vasarely, Le Parc, Agam, Tomasello... Students will be able to interact with some of the works and achieve different optical effects.

With this tour we aim to showcase the works and artists who experiment with movement, light, and the reflections produced by geometric forms that involve the viewer in an innovative way.

Vasarely's Cube. (Workshop)

Victor Vasarely is the leading representative of Op Art/Optical Art, an artistic movement that emerged in the 1960s and stems from geometric abstraction. Using scientific principles and repetitive structures to create visual effects that produce a sensation of movement on a flat or static surface, turning the viewer into an active observer and therefore a participant in the work.

The objective of this workshop is to work with polychromatic or bichromatic contrasts, inspired by Vasarely's work, using simple geometric forms such as squares and circles, and the creation of patterns through changes in shape, size, or color.