The second cycle will curatorial projects Ara Ana Hernandez, Eduardo García Nieto and Fernando Castro Flores
The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, today announced the selection of the projects chosen by a jury that will be part of the new program of the Center for Contemporary Arts' The Cannery ', with which' reopens in style " he said, "and in a sustainable manner."
In the presentation, Cruz said these projects provide "a high degree of professionalism" since there have been "big names" and will expose "important artists of the present and the history of contemporary art."
Thus, the Minister stressed that the Canning "has achieved over the years an enormous international prestige that makes claim to act as the main cultural agents who want to work on it", which is "a qualitative leap forward through model of a fully transparent and economically sustainable "management.
The first cycle of The Cannery 2014 will take place from February to June and the project will have '13 ', Isabel Martínez Abascal,' Blockhouse ', Andrés Avelino Chamber,' Omissions and ghosts' by Sandra Ceballos Obaya.
The exhibition project '13 'raises an encounter between individuals from different parts of the world, linked by common concerns and, mostly, do not know each other.
The artists who have been invited to participate in this exhibition are from Chile, Brazil, Philippines, or Mexico, ie 'are dispersed, scattered around the world. "
Meanwhile, 'Blockhouse' is presented as an exercise in resistance to the temporal, through a set of ideas and proposals from different artists around the crisis of today.
This project will allow the presence in Murcia "very important artists in the international sphere," such as Daniel Garcia Andujar, Goldiechiari, Teresa Margolles or Chus García Fraile.
In the case of 'Omissions and ghosts', will be shown by photographs and video, different views on the identity, migration, detachment from the matrix and multiple disguises of consciousness effect, they induce the viewer to reflect with respect to identity, roots and the inevitable changes, loss of idiosyncratic habits and manners.
Among such important Cuban artists today as Marta Maria Perez Bravo, "one of the most prominent figures of the Cuban artistic practice."
In the second cycle, the center will host the projects 'The docile bodies', Ara Ana Hernandez 'Clandestine Happiness' by Eduardo Garcia Nieto, and 'Other Accounts [Awakening of history and the end of storytelling]' by Fernando Castro Flores.
'The docile bodies' will show a selection of works that question the effectiveness and perfection of disciplinary methods through four thematic sections (soldier, student, worker and prisoner), showing the reactions of these four prototypes docile bodies of different disciplinary methods.
The presence of essential artists in the history of recent art, like Czech or Spanish Harun Farocki Dora García.
'Clandestine Happiness' is about the construction of male emotionality during transit from childhood to adolescence from the short story by Clarice Lispector, suggesting an approach to the world of this story.
This project will accommodate legendary artists in recent history as Bob Flanagan, another myth of contemporary art, the Basque Miguel Angel or David Wojnarowicz Gaüeca.
Meanwhile, the draft Fernando Castro poses a reading of Spanish and Chilean artists in the hermeneutic space marked by the book 'The End of History' by Francis Fukuyama and the 'Storytelling' test Christian Salmon, formulating a hypothesis Review which some artists would be returning to the idea of ​​historicity.
To do this, it features artists such as Avelino Sala, one of the exhibitions station, Carlos Aires, José Luis Serzo, P. Pérez and Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, among others.
The jury, consisting of the director of the National Center of Art Reina Sofia, Manuel Borja-Villel, curator, art critic and coordinator of worship supplement ABC, Laura Revuelta, and the director of the Minimum Space gallery, José Martínez Calvo has made an assessment of each project in terms of its novelty, discourse coherence, exhibition design, quality, aesthetics and functionality
Source: CARM