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This exhibition presents the artist’s plastic research from her first monochrome experiments, carried out in 1978, until the mid-1990s. Organised by series, the project covers the first two decades of her career, centred on the field of geometric abstraction and the introduction of the computer in research into measurement and the generation of images.
This video shows, using the time lapse technique, the process of restoration and cleaning of the work.
By Quintas Fotógrafos
This exhibition is dedicated to the work of Joxerra Melguizo (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1968), and covers the artist's work over the last 10 years. His work emphasises the idea of process, manifesting as a trace of day-to-day work in the studio, focusing on methods of creation and thought through drawing, line, and colour.
Peio Aguirre, curator, provides us with the keys to approach the exhibition that deals with the figure of Eduardo Chillida (Donostia, 1924-2002) as an illustrator and forger of two-dimensional forms and icons.
Video summary of the performance cycle ‘Mechanical Bonds. Performative Practices in the Museum', which took place from 27 to 29 September 2024.
With Valeria Maculan, Federico Vladimir & Pablo Lilienfeld, Ainara LeGardon, Itsaso Iribarren & Germán de la Riva, Marta Fernández Calvo, Elena Aitzkoa, Alejandra Pombo Su, Pedro Barateiro, Marc Vives.
Curated by Iñaki Martínez Antelo
The exhibition Unform, dedicated to the work of Patricia Dauder (Barcelona, 1973), brings together sculptures, drawings, installations and films that, as a whole, explore the artist’s interest in tracking affective moments that often leave almost unnoticeable traces.
This exhibition is a continuation of the exhibition project entitled 'A Place to Think: Experimental Art Schools and Educational Practices in the Basque Country, 1957-1979', which was presented at the museum in 2022. While the scope of that exhibition ended in the 1970s with the birth of the Bilbao Higher School of Fine Arts, 'edonor denok inor ez' deals with the period between 1978 and the beginning of the 1990s, focusing on the institutionalisation processes of art education in the Basque Country.
The work Números primos (2003-2023) by the artist Esther Ferrer (San Sebastián, 1937) is now definitively installed in the internal plaza of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country. Its new location will facilitate its use as a space for the meeting and participation of visitors, the realisation of artistic programmes linked to performative practices and the development of pedagogical proposals.
“After several years of working on projects with defined geometric structures in the 1970s, I felt the need to think about others in which my aesthetic preferences would play a secondary role. ‘Free’ structures capable of evolving by themselves, following their own internal logic. For some time I failed to achieve a satisfying result, until one night I dreamt of prime numbers. This was the beginning of the series Poema de los números primos (Poem of Prime Numbers). [...] The first thing that surprised me when I began to work with the prime numbers series was that the result is always balanced and beautiful whatever the system used; secondly, the larger the work, in other words, the more numbers it comprises, the more interesting and varied the structure, never symmetrical, always moving. That is why I considered creating monumental works from the outset, such as floors, murals, tapestries, etc. On entering the universe of prime numbers, one has the sensation that they are the translation, the reflection of a magnificent universal chaos, continually evolving, never repeating, always different and always the same. A chaos within which there seems to be an order, a strange, peculiar order.”
This work by Ferrer is based on the spiral figure of the mathematician Stanislaw Ulam (1909-1984)
The work is made up of 10,000 square ceramic stoneware slabs, with 3 types of pieces: 4,556 pieces with a red diagonal, 4,223 pieces with a blue diagonal and the remaining 1,221 with a printed prime number from 41 to 10,039, both included.
Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country Collection, Vitoria-Gasteiz. Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council long-term loan. Produced in collaboration with the Architecture Service of Alava Provincial Council
This exhibition by the Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo (London, 1978) brings together a vast body of work that focuses on her research into social movements and community organisations opposing the construction of energy infrastructures, including large hydroelectric projects in various parts of the world.
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