Curated by: Charo Garaigorta

Wall of wonders is an educational project with an exhibition format. A work of art is activated with your look, and observation is an act of creation. Wall of wonders invites you to look, observe and reflect on three works of art from the Artium collection.

We propose a space that adds meanings and interpretations to these works; a new expressiveness that the author may not have intended or that the spectator never had the chance to articulate. Moreover, we will hang your contribution on the wall to form a large mural that contains a commitment, the one that is established between the work of art and the different opinions (voices) that confront it.

Wall of wonders is an exhibition in which the works of art are changed periodically, in the form of a game. One is removed and another is added, creating a continuous change of meaning in the exhibition.

Look at these works and these questions:

Van Gogh y su amigo. Patricia Gadea, 1985
Is this painting familiar to you? The background? The characters?

Sqematic Compositions. Olga Adelantado, 2008
What does it remind you of?

Untitled (from the team work Wilhelm Von Humboldt. Euskaldunen Herrian Barrena. 1801-2001). Gema Intxausti, 2001
Could you say the same thing? What would you write in the speech bubbles?

You can send your answers to educacion@artium.org and we will put it up for you. Our idea is of a space that adds meanings and interpretations to these works, a new expressiveness that perhaps the author did not intend or the viewer never had the chance of articulating. 

«A creative act, a work of art can reach completion only through the dialogue with the viewer, that is to say, with you, kind visitor». Marcel Duchamp. Lecture at the Convention of the American Federation of Arts in Houston, Texas, 1957.