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On the occasion of the inauguration of the exhibition Other Recent Examples by Alejandro Cesarco, the auditorium of the museum will host a conversation focuses on editing processes between Alejandro Cesarco, Thomas Boutoux, Beatriz Herráez and Catalina Lozano.
24 March, 12 am
Conversation on editing practices
Auditorium. Free entrance until full capacity
Reservations: 945 20 90 20 and artium.eus
The three words that make up the title of this exhibition by Julia Spínola (Madrid, 1979), Persona, foto, copia (Person, Photo, Copy), typify the concerns and desires contained in the pieces that comprise it, or perhaps it is better to say that they form it, making it emerge within a space and in a place that are also part of it. These pieces unrigorously and non-retrospectively encompass a decade in the artist’s work. If anything, the selection brings together existing works with others produced for this occasion, thereby leading to continuities, as well as new temporalities, through the relationships they generate.
Spínola’s work somehow surrounds the notion of person, of being a person, of “personhood” and its ontological implications beyond what is understood to be characteristically human. It is an interest in exploring the qualities of a person, which are perhaps those vibrations that give them the capacity to affect and be affected. Moreover, light (from the Greek phos, photo) for Spínola is a way of also producing space, of creating place as matter that we enter into and become a part of. Spínola abounds in her own work, and this abundance is the meaning of the word “copy”, as compilation, as copious. The works often stem from a radical change in scale of small objects that have awakened pleasurable sensations in the artist.
The vibrations on the surfaces of the works and variations of light on the different levels of sharpness that these produce in the contours act as a kind of focusing and blurring effect. The silkscreen prints appearing on the walls of the space also demand that we look at them from various distances, as objectives and surfaces in which to immerse ourselves, as representations and as a milieu that can encompass everything our optical system is capable of embodying.
Julia Spínola’s work has been exhibited in solo shows at the Fundació Miró (Barcelona, 2020), ARTIATX (Bilbao, 2020), CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (Madrid, 2018) and Halfhouse (Barcelona, 2016), among other institutions. She was a recipient of a DAAD residency (Berlin) and won the El Ojo Crítico de Artes Plásticas Award from Radio Nacional de España in 2013.
This exhibition has been organised in collaboration with the Centre Rhénan d’Art Contemporain (CRAC Alsace).
This edition has been published to mark the exhibition Rafael Lafuente. Konposaketak / Composiciones produced by Artium Museoa, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country, which was held in Vitoria-Gasteiz from 20 January to 14 May 2023.
Texts: Juan Luis Moraza, Enrique Martínez Goikoetxea
Graphic Design: Hélice Creativos
On the occasion of the inauguration of the exhibition San Simón 62, the auditorium of the museum will host the screening of the film and a conversation between Irati Gorostidi and Mirari Echávarri, the directors, and the Chief Curator of Artium Museoa, Catalina Lozano.
25 March, 12 am
Conversation between Irati Gorostidi, Mirari Echávarri and Catalina Lozano
Auditorium. Free entrance until full capacity
Reservations: 945 20 90 20 and artium.eus
Hau (this), here, nearby, is a demonstrative pronoun in Basque. Demonstratives are used to indicate the distance between a speaker and the thing spoken about. They therefore help to orient oneself because they reveal a position. But hau also has different meanings in other contexts. In his essay “The Gift” (1925), the French anthropologist Marcel Mauss writes that hau for the Maoris is the spiritual value given to gifted objects. The definition of a museum is historically determined by its collection, by the public nature of a collection that belongs to everyone and helps to produce knowledge and to imagine a community.
This dual meaning acts as a preamble to a reordering of the museum’s collection that began in the 1950s with the return from Latin America of Mari Paz Jiménez, Jorge Oteiza and Néstor Basterretxea, continuing until the present day and exploring what the theorist Hal Foster dubbed “the return of the real”. It does so through a number of fundamental movements that activate a narrative that is constantly under construction. This presentation brings together more than a hundred works of art, documents and archival materials to explore the contexts that artists helped to construct and from which they worked in the latter half of the 20th century.
On the occasion of the inauguration of the exhibition Rafael Lafuente. Compositions that the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country dedicates to the extensive work of the Vitorian artist, the auditorium of the museum will host a conversation between Gorka Lafuente, Gorka Basterretxeaand the Collection Curator of Artium Museoa, Enrique Martínez.
20 January, 6 pm
Conversation between Gorka Lafuente, Gorka Basterretxea and Enrique Marínez
Auditorium. Free entrance until full capacity
Reservations: 945 20 90 20 and artium.eus
This exhibition, dedicated to the work of Alejandro Cesarco (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1975), brings together pieces in a variety of media –photographs, videos and text-based works– that proposes reflecting on the construction and experience of learning, as well as on the processes associated with memory, perception and language.
Among them is Index (An Educator), a piece that belongs to a series of works that began with the same title in 2000, which shows Cesarco’s interest in elaborating indexes of imaginary books. To paraphrase the artist, these indexes are conceived as “forms of writing that in turn make up archives of readings”, and they are the product of his interest in classifications, registers and taxonomies, as well as in the processes of constructing and preserving memory. In Otros ejemplos recientes, the artist focuses on questions such as the uses and functions of pedagogy and literacy, in addition to relationships between mother tongue, bilingualism and the complicated ecosystem that generates this situation of “in-betweenness”.
As an adjoining space alongside the exhibition, Alejandro Cesarco is constructing an area to consult writings and authors linked to his practice as a publisher. Among other publications of his, it includes a selection of books published within the framework of Art Resources Transfer (A.R.T.), an independent non-profit organisation committed to documenting and disseminating the work of artists to an often disregarded audience in the circuit of cultural consumption.
Exhibition co-produced by Artium Museoa, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country and Maumaus/Lumiar Cité (Lisbon).
Thursdays in January, February and March, at 7 pm
General admission, 3,5 €. Friends of Artium Museoa, 2 €
Under 25: free admission (at the museum ticket office)
Tickets for sale at the museum box office and artium.eus
The sixth edition of this season, organised by the Basque Filmoteca, Donostia International Physics Centre and San Sebastian Film Festival, will continue its decisive search for conveying cinematographic and scientific culture.
Screenings, presentations and debates are the DNA of this season, which is forged from the reasoned and robust defence of cinema and science, including the notable presence of prestigious scientists.
Programme
12 January
The Name of the Rose (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1986). Spanish subtitles. 131 min
During the 14th century a Franciscan monk, and his apprentice travel to an abbey to investigate and clarify the mysterious death of a young man. During their stay they suspect that it is really a murder. Fear grips the abbey as more of the dead turn up and they try to uncover the truth.
Introduced by Ricardo Díez Muiño
26 January
Soylent Green (Richard Fleischer, 1973). Spanish subtitles. 97 min
The year is 2022 and New York finds itself in unbearably crowded and polluted conditions. The food shortage leads large corporations like Soylent to produce synthetic food to meet the populations demand. When one of the New York elite is murdered, police officer Frank Thorn is sent to investigate the case.
Introduced by Marta Olazabal
2 February
Inherit the Wind (Stanley Kramer, 1960). Spanish subtitles. 127 min
In the 1920s a Tennessee schoolteacher is put on trial for violating the Butler Act, a state law that prohibited public school teachers from teaching evolution instead of creationism. Drawing intense national attention in the media two of the nation’s leading lawyers go head to head for the prosecution.
Introduced by Montse Hervella
9 February
Madame Curie (Mervyn LeRoy, 1943). Basque subtitles. 124 min
Physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie’s lab. The scientists embark on a shared quest to extract from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium.
Introduced by Nerea Zabala
16 February
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1967). Spanish subtitles. 93 min
A film about what could happen if the wrong person pushed the wrong button – and it played the situation for laughs. U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper goes completely insane, and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. He thinks that the communists are conspiring to pollute the “precious bodily fluids” of the American people.
Introduced by María Blanco
23 February
Fire of Love (Sara Dosa, 2022). Basque subtitles. 93 min
Katia and Maurice Krafft loved two things: volcanoes and each other. This couple of French volcanologists dedicated two decades of their lives to the study and documentation of active volcanoes. With never-before-seen images inside volcanic eruptions, an intimate love story is intertwined within the immensity of the Earth.
Introduced by Juana Vegas
2 March
Philadelphia (Jonathan Demme, 1993). Spanish subtitles. 125 min
Andrew Beckett is fired from his job as a lawyer when his bosses find out he has AIDS. With the goal of suing them for wrongful termination, Andrew tries to find someone willing to defend him. Fighting his own prejudices and understanding it from his own place of discrimination, Joe Miller takes the case.
Introduced by Julio Arrizabalaga Aguirreazaldegui & Carmen Garde Orbaiz
9 March
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Francis F. Coppola, 1992). Spanish subtitles. 130 min
In the year 1890, a young lawyer travels to a lost castle in Transylvania, where he meets Count Dracula. The count is fascinated by a photograph of a woman shown to him by the young lawyer. He decides to travel to London to meet her. Once there he tries to conquer and seduce her.
Introduced by José Ramón Alonso
16 March
A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard, 2001). Spanish subtitles. 135 min
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experienced it all. A mathematical genius, he made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery.
Introduced by José Antonio Lozano
23 March
Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975). Basque subtitles. 124 min
A white shark threatens a small coastal town in the United States. After attacking and killing a young bather, a group of men set out to stop him. A police chief, an oceanographer and a veteran shark hunter unite to put an end to the attacks that are terrorizing the community.
Introduced by Juan Ignacio Pérez Iglesias
Organised by Basque Filmoteca
Director: Miren Vadillo
This course offers an approach to the history, language and debates
revolving around contemporary art. By rallying around the new
presentation of the Artium Museoa Collection, which will be inaugurated
at the end of March to culminate the museum’s 20th anniversary, we will
trace a historical journey over the course of eight sessions accompanied
by various specialists who will help us to learn more about the several case
studies and proposals addressed by the exhibition.
Eight sessions with specialised teachers and art historians organised and
directed by the art historian Miren Vadillo, including a visit to the setting up
of the new presentation of the Artium Museoa Collection by the people in
charge of it.
7 February
Miren Vadillo. Presentation session of the course
14 February
Ane Lekuona. Mari Paz Jiménez and abstraction in Basque art
21 February
Enara Iratzagorria. María Dapena. Crosses between the literary and the plastic. An approach to the prison life of a woman artist
1 March
Mikel Onandia. 40 years of art, transmission and education in the Basque Country. From experimentation to institutionalisation
7 March
Eneko Besa. The Coronation Church in Vitoria-Gasteiz. The method of Miguel Fisac’s project
14 Marc
Fernando Golvano. The 70-80 in the Basque context. Transitions, ruptures and emergencies of appropriation
21 March
Maite Luengo. The canon of female bodies and new creative discourses
Every Tuesday from 7 February to 28 March from 6 pm to 8 pm
Friends of Artium Museoa and students of the Faculties of Fine Arts and Art
History: free of charge / Students of certified courses: €25 / Others: €60.
Information and bookings: : 945 20 90 20
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