The representation of reality is related to numerous artistic and aesthetic trends. We see it in the representation of everyday life, or in pop art, which uses popular images, or in works of social and political commitment that represent the surrounding reality. The activity that has been prepared for this itinerary aims to strengthen knowledge related to the realities depicted in works from different collections to represent a new vision of these through the technique of exquisite corpse*.

* A word game invented by surrealist artists through which ways are created to draw out many more images from a single image.

This itinerary aims to show how twentieth-century artists incorporate all kinds of objects and materials foreign to the work of art in their creations and how they work with gesturality as a way to transmit sensations, feelings, and different effects. In the workshop that accompanies this tour, the use of textures in art is explored and how gesture impacts and helps communicate.

A tour designed for students to discover the museum, What is a museum? What is it for? What is in it? In a fun, sensory and educational way, stimulating curiosity and appreciation for art and culture.

For Early Childhood Education

The first edition of MACA Play Ink was selected in the CERCLES cultural mediation call, promoted by the Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community (CMCV). This recognition made it possible to shape a proposal that, from the outset, sought to position young people as protagonists of a creative process linked to contemporary issues and close to their lives.

In this first phase, the project explored the intersection between graphic art, music and sustainability, betting on an interdisciplinary approach that connected directly with the interests and languages of the participants. Through this dialogue between disciplines, young people were invited to reflect on urgent issues such as climate change, consumption habits and the need to imagine new forms of relationship with the planet. Graphics and sound became expressive tools for thinking about the common good, denouncing injustices and giving shape to alternative visions of the future.

The creative process was structured around technical workshops in screen printing, experimental graphics and typography, combined with active listening sessions and collective dynamics of debate and reflection. Music and rhythm served as a motor to generate images charged with energy, while manual work with inks, papers and screen printing screens provided a space for concentration, patience and discovery.

Beyond the visual result, this first edition became a space for encounter and mutual discovery. The participants not only acquired new artistic skills, but also learned to work as a team, to share ideas and to recognize the strength of their voices when expressed collectively. In many cases, it was also the first time they approached a museum as their own space, not as a distant place, but as a laboratory of experiences.

«Breathing MACA» goes beyond a conventional guided tour.

These are visits in which the content and forms of communication are adapted, with the aim of transforming the museum into a space oriented toward promoting social inclusion, driving education and art as mediating agents to strengthen the quality of life for all people.

In all visits we propose participating in art and culture and coming into contact with it, having a voice in the first person and generating meaningful experiences that stimulate dialogue, reflection, imagination, critical thinking, and the possibility of sharing and participating in the project making use of all the senses. An always exciting project.

Breathing MACA is aimed at groups with different abilities, functional diversity or at risk of social exclusion.

It was born as a selected project in the public call 'Lugar Común', from the Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana, within its 'Culture on Equal Terms' program. Created and carried out by David Gil and Ester García from 'Daguten. Escuela Gráfica de Barrio', it has been developing since 2019.

Tirando del Hilo has always aimed to be an opportunity to awaken creativity in people with intellectual disabilities from the Terramar Occupational Center of APSA. The sessions aim to create a meeting space in the museum where participants have learned to enjoy art and have experimented with the various expressive possibilities offered by graphic arts.

And so the participants from the Terramar Occupational Center of APSA in Alicante, the "Equipo Seri", were able to design and create, projecting their ideas in each proposed project, and their results have been reflected in various designs such as the t-shirt for the Plataforma Festival and an exhibition in the D Space of MACA during the months of December 2019 and January 2020.

MACA/San Rafael Objective was born in 2019 from MACA's interest in promoting and providing tools for the dissemination of art and artistic production, with the aim of contributing to the transformation of society through culture from collective work. The program was designed for users of the San Rafael Center, San Francisco de Borja Foundation. Due to its multidisciplinary nature, it is expressed through workshops that cover disciplines such as drawing, painting, sculpture, photography..., generating social value in people with intellectual disabilities, and emphasizing their creative work rather than the disability.

In 2020, due to the health situation, it was postponed.

Extrarradio. Art and Mental Health is an educational project for museums, designed and directed for people with mental illness, with the objective of generating meaningful experiences that lead to the development of skills not only artistic, but also social, emotional and communicative. It has been created and developed by Ester García Guixot, a graduate in Fine Arts and museum educator, allowing to describe and put into practice an intervention methodology, through which it has been possible to develop the research The Museum. Art and creative processes as a means and tools for dialogue for people with mental illness in the university Master's program Education and Museums. Heritage, identity and cultural mediation taught by the University of Murcia during the years 2015 and 2016.

The participants of the project have been 25 patients from four Rehabilitation Units of the Dr. Esquerdo Socio-Assistance Center dependent on the Mental Health Area of the Provincial Council of Alicante

3 x 3 is conceived as a cultural outreach program, developed together with Extrarradio, which includes elements that are interesting and attractive for groups with functional diversity and/or at risk of social exclusion. The starting point of this project is the MACA's permanent collections as spaces of expression, which provide tools to activate inclusion pathways and routes for social transformation.

We use a working methodology that adapts content and forms of communication to the age, cognitive development, or physical, psychological, sensory, intellectual, or mental characteristics of the participants, promoting personal development and enhancing different capacities.

In all visits, these groups are offered the opportunity to participate in art and culture and come into contact with it, have a voice in the first person, and generate meaningful experiences that stimulate dialogue, reflection, imagination, critical thinking, and the possibility of sharing and participating in the project using all the senses. A project that is always exciting.

With this program of 3 visits to the 3 permanent collections of the museum: the 20th Century Art Collection, the CajaMediterráneo Collection, and the Eusebio Sempere Collection, we propose, starting from the works in these collections, to work to formulate new ones based on experiences and encounters in the museum and in life. We want to start from the concrete, not from abstractions. From the premise of proposing, we initiate individual and collective work that can culminate in an exhibition to show the created work, inviting other audiences to participate in the process carried out and experienced, giving visibility to everything done and valuing the participants as protagonists.

The dynamic tour of the DUAL-ES exhibition. Tàpies facing Tàpies proposes a journey based on the work of Catalan artist Antoni Tàpies. With this exhibition we have the opportunity to establish different visions between the Tàpies of yesterday and today, always with common denominators: intensity, strength, the stroke, the forceful, spirituality and its integration with matter, the impregnation of the human in objects, the arrangement of color, the signs…

In collaboration with Ester G. Guixot