Exhibition. Rémy Zaugg. The Question of Perception

Exhibition view. Rémy Zaugg. The Question of Perception, 2016

Exhibition view. Rémy Zaugg. The Question of Perception, 2016

The work of Swiss artist Rémy Zaugg (Courgenay, 1943 – Basel, 2005), which stretches across four decades, is on display in the Palacio de Velázquez. The exhibition The Question of Perception is the outcome of a close collaboration between the Museo Reina Sofía and the Museum für Gegenwartkunst, Siegen, and looks over a body of work based on the study of perception, and the relationships between text and images, colour and language, the real and the subjective, and between plane and space. 

A tension of opposites courses through the artist’s oeuvre, from his early forays in the perceptive deconstruction of painting landmarks to the aluminium pieces in his later work. Yet Zaugg did not only explore the genre of painting, he also turned his attentions to architecture, to curating exhibitions, to interventions in public spaces and, above all, to tireless theorising. He was an outstanding intellectual committed to conducting his way of perceiving the world.

Date: March 31 - August 28, 2016
Location: Palacio de Velázquez. Parque del Retiro
Curatorship: Javier Hontoria
Organized by: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, in collaboration with Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen
In collaboration with: prohelvetia and Hans und Renée Müller-Meylan Stiftung

 

Exhibition. Wifredo Lam

Wifredo Lam. Umbral, 1950. Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, State purchase, 1969, assigned in 1976

Wifredo Lam. Umbral, 1950. Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, State purchase, 1969, assigned in 1976

Wifredo Lam stands in a paradoxical place in twentieth-century art. His work emanates from the circulation of ideas and languages, from the desire to shape a unique and idiosyncratic medium with which to put a strain on and unbalance the certainties and categorisations of any sign.

Born in Cuba in 1902, he moved to Spain in 1923 to study at Madrid’s Fine Arts Academy. In the early 1930s his interest in current socio-political issues saw him commit to the Republican cause, and in 1938 the impending outcome of the Civil War forced him to seek exile in Paris. In 1941, with his spirits dampened by two exiles, he returned to his native country; however, Cuba under Gerardo Machado’s regime was riddled with uncertainty, corruption and racism and it proved a huge disappointment to Lam, leading him to come into contact with the art and intellectual scene on the island to build a divergent account of Cuban identity. 

The exhibition, with over 200 works (paintings, drawings, prints and ceramics) and numerous other documents (letters, photographs, magazines and books) presents the distinctive career of this artist as it opened up a gap in linear readings of Eurocentric modernity, putting forward a divergent and eclectic account that prompts the constant reconsideration of his practice and the binary reductions of the centre-periphery.

Date: April 6 - August 15, 2016
Location: Sabatini Building, Floor 1
Curatorship: Catherine David and Manuel Borja-Villel
Organized by: Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne in collaboration with Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and Tate Gallery
Sponsored by: Abertis

 

Collection. New assembly of Guernica and the 1930s

Gallery view

Gallery view

Following the line of thought in recent years – periodically advancing new readings of the Collection – the exhibition rooms converging around the context of Guernica have been remodelled as a result of the ongoing research into and review of the institution’s holdings. Moreover, it grants visibility to new acquisitions, loans and bequests inside the exhibition discourse.

This updated assembly, spanning the 1930s, also features a new room devoted to Logicofobismo, an offshoot of international Surrealism. It includes recently acquired works such as Amor hasta los huesos (Love to the Core) by the Canary Island artist Juan Ismael, a sculpture by Eudald Serra i Güell and pieces by Antoni G. Lamolla.

Worthy of mention are also the new galleries that set up a reflection on the influence of Francisco de Goya and the so-called “dark Spain” in war painting and in the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris International Exhibition in 1937, calling upon significant loans, such as Aurelio Arteta’s work Evacuación de un pueblo (Evacuation of a Town), from a private collection, and two pieces from the Centre Pompidou: Carnaval, by Rosario de Velasco, and Ismael González de la Serna’s Europe. This collaboration policy with collectors and institutions has also enabled new bequests to be made, including the one from the Estate of David Smith for the series Medals for Dishonor, a key piece in the rooms related to the international image of the conflict of the Spanish Civil War.

Location: Sabatini Building, Floor 2. Room 206

 

Seminar. Europe’s Dilemmas: Austerity, Democracy, Capitalism

Josh Zakary. Arrival of Syrian refugees to Vienna. 2015

Josh Zakary. Arrival of Syrian refugees to Vienna. 2015

Inside the framework of Constituent Machines: Constituent Power, Biopolitics, Democracy, the Museo Reina Sofía will hold the second session in the programme of lectures and seminars, on this occasion conducted by Wolfgang Streeck.

After a reflection on the social mobilisations, constituent assemblies and processes of political innovation experienced in Latin America over the past few decades, these new lectures inside Constituent Machines: Constituent Power, Biopolitics, Democracy will now turn the spotlight on Europe. Due to both the constrictions imposed by neoliberal institutionality and governance and the lack of suitable forms of administration to manage the current social complexity, the European Union faces the challenge of thinking and organising constituent processes located inside a markedly transnational and post-national reference framework. Streeck, sociologist and Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute will reflect on these and other aspects of the current European situation.

Date: April 4 - 13, 2016 
Location: Sabatini Building, Auditorium and Nouvel Building, Study Center 
Programme: check website 
Admission: lecture and round table free, until full capacity is reached; prior registration required for the seminar
Organized by: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Fundación de los Comunes and Intermediae

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof�a

Museo Nacional
Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

T (+34) 917 741 000
web@museoreinasofia.es
www.museoreinasofia.es
NIPO: 036-13-031-0

Facebook Facebook Twitter Twitter Instagram Instagram Vimeo Vimeo Youtube Youtube RSS RSS