The projects of the new curatorial cycle, created by Fernando Castro Flórez, Ana Ara and Eduardo García Nieto, can be visited in Ceutí until 30th June.
For the second cycle scheduled for this season through an open call, a panel comprising the director of Reina Sofía Museum, Manuel Borja-Villel, the art critic Laura Revuelta, and the director of Espacio Mínimo gallery, José Martínez Calvo, selected Fernando Castro Flórez, Ana Ara and Eduardo García Nieto. These three professionals have created exclusively for La Conservera the projects ‘Other Accounts (the Dawn of History and the End of Storytelling)’, ‘Docile Bodies’ and ‘Clandestine Happiness’, respectively.
The Projects
‘Other Accounts (the Dawn of History and the End of Storytelling)’ is the name of the exhibition in Space 1, for which curator Fernando Castro Flórez has brought together some fifteen Spanish and Chilean artists whose creations are conceived within the framework of two essential texts: ‘The End of History’, by political scientist Francis Fukuyama, and the essay ‘Storytelling’, by Christian Salmon.
The selected artists tell stories that belong to an intermediate sphere between the historical narrative and the entertainment culture through paintings, drawings, installations, videos or photographs that portray contrasting political and social contexts, which, nonetheless, share many similarities.
Likewise, curator Ana Ara has gathered works of several national and international artists under the title ‘Docile Bodies’. The exhibition in Space 2 analyses the essence of our contemporary society through four thematic strands: the soldier, the student, the prisoner and the worker. The exhibition features the artists as heterogeneity shapers, as professionals who, driven by ‘rebelliousness’, seek to overcome the imposed discipline through their works.
‘Clandestine Happiness’ is created by Eduardo García Nieto featuring works by six artists in Space 4. The exhibition is structured around emotional learning experiences that build men’s emotion in the transition from childhood to adolescence, and around part of a story by the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector which is ‘written’ in vinyl lettering on the floor of Espacio 4 and can be read from the upper floor.
In this exhibition, the audience will encounter creations by six male artists whose work reflects the feminist heritage. This exhibition attempts to normalise intergenerational and international dialogues by collecting works made between 1972 and 2015, most notably the first time Spanish version of Wojnarowicz’s ‘Untitled (Onedaythiskid…).’
The exhibitions will be inaugurated in La Conservera tomorrow, Wednesday, and can be visited until 30th June. Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday: 4 pm - 8 pm, Saturdays: 11 am - 8 pm and Sundays and public holidays: 11 am - 2 pm.