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18/1/2013

Four exhibitions

MUSAC Contemporary Art Museum, Leon

January 19 - June 9, 2013
Rosa Barba
A Home for a Unique Individual

Curator Juan de Nieves
coordination Carlos Ordás

Rosa Barba’s project for MUSAC takes the Museum’s architecture and its characteristic interior mobility as a starting point to hold a complex dialogue with the cinematographic devices that the artist has been using in recent years and that are a distinctive element of her work.

The space for this project is situated at the start of the museum’s itinerary, from where the rest of the halls can be visited. This introductory or preface-like aspect, as well as the fact that it is near to three of the five museum courtyards, provides this longitudinal space with a unique status within the general structure of the museum.

Barba has chosen to read the hall as a huge scenic space where the ‘performative’ devices could converge and interact with the different publics. A big backdrop/screen, running perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, will keep track of the entries and exits of people from this ‘set’.

Film, image, light, projection machines and texts form a well-organised narrative on this big backdrop, but are also located in strategic points of the hall, creating different narrative and formal intensities and establishing its own tempo and action.

Using an overhead projector, a 35mm film is projected from one of the courtyards towards the crosswise screen, which, on the other side, receives the rest of the filmic elements in form of texts, sounds and other devices.

As is the case in other pieces by Barba, there is an interest in dismantling the narration in different elements, such as text, sound or image, as a kind of oblique experiments on the relationships between word and image, in order to transform it all in an asynchronous space.

The three surrounding courtyards play a fundamental role in this ‘piece’, either in the form of extensions of the scenic space or as backstage, but also, for instance, as a sonic extension of the scene that is playing out inside the hall. The viewers may also walk around these courtyards like true actors in this expanded ‘theatre production’.

It is in this both cinematic and theatrical space —the museum— where a fiction based on the interaction between human landscapes and natural landscapes, or, in other words, on the traces and phenomenons that accumulate simultaneously over history, is going to take place.

Juan de Nieves

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January 19 - October 13, 2013
Lara Almarcegui
Abandoned River Park

Curators: Manuel Segade, Agustín Pérez Rubio
coordination: Kristine Guzmán

Lara Almarcegui’s projects consist in the public presentation of studies on aspects apparently marginal to the urban arena, which she carries out using rigorous analytical methods. The exhibition Parque fluvial abandonado (Abandoned River Park) features two new pieces by Almarcegui, executed specifically for the show, which constitute a double exercise of contextualisation: on the one hand, an intervention on the architecture of Exhibition Hall 2 of MUSAC; on the other, a work about a piece of waste ground in the quarter of La Lastra (León), representative of the current situation of the building industry in Spain. Lara Almarcegui (Zaragoza, 1972) is one of the most internationally renowned Spanish artists. This same year 2013 she will be presenting a solo exhibition in the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale under the curatorship of Octavio Zaya, external curator of the MUSAC.
The starting point of the site-specific installation of Almarcegui in MUSAC’s Exhibition Hall 2 is the analysis of Mansilla and Tuñón’s building. In some of her previous works, the artist had established a direct relationship between the architectural components and its result, placing the materials used in the construction of a building next to the building itself. In her latest pieces, however, these materials are not displayed in an orderly manner, as they would be just before the start of the building process, but as waste material, such as they would look after the building’s demolition, as if, by this adjacent positioning, the possible times of a construction were overlapping. In addition to pointing to the tradition of the representation of ruins, her piles of construction materials have acquired a strong sculptural power and offer the viewer a physical perception and critical reading of the space which are unprecedented in her production.

As for the video piece that gives the exhibition its title, Abandoned River Park, shown in MUSAC’s Adjoining Space, its departure point is the research projects about derelict lots for which the artist has been widely praised during her artistic career. In her projects, Almarcegui undertakes rigorous research to ultimately present her findings in an informative format —either in the form of a guide or as a diaporama. Her work deals with these abandoned sites that remain on the margins of the city’s construction logic and design, like archaeological remains of what the city was before being built, but also of what urban space could become after its use. In this case, Almarcegui lays out a visual narrative that tells the story of the project of developing a park between two rivers next to La Lastra neighbourhood, which has been abandoned due to the economic recession, producing a waste ground.

Agustin Pérez Rubio
Manuel Segade

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LABORATORIO 987 Cycle Form and Meaning
January 19 - June 16, 2013

Alejandra Riera
partial views

Curator: Leire Vergara
coordination: Eneas Bernal

As part of its Form and Meaning exhibition series MUSAC’s Laboratorio 987 features vues partielles, partial views by the France-based Argentine artist Alejandra Riera. The show represents the first presentation in a contemporary art institution of the filmic document Enquête sur le/notre dehors (Valence-le-Haut) [Investigation of the/our outside (Valence-le-Haut)]. It involves a long process of exchange with the inhabitants and/or users of the Fontbarlettes neighbourhood (on the outskirts of Valence, France), which led to the production of an “image of collective thought and a publication about the idea of inhabiting and the very act of creating something in common”.

Vue partielle [Partial view]. 2012. Courtesy Archives « ...- histoire(s) du présent - ... ».

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January 19 - June 16, 2013
Apolonija Sustersic
Auditorium/Display

Curator: Peio Aguirre
coordination: Kristine Guzmán

In this showcase, Apolonija Šušteršič reinterprets the iconic architecture of MUSAC, designed by Emilio Tuñón and Luis Moreno Mansilla, taking into account another emblematic building of the city of León (by the same architects): the auditorium. Šušteršič suggests the introduction of a building within the other. In this manner, the façade of the auditorium is introduced into the showcase of the MUSAC lobby, arousing an element that is easily recognized by the visitors. The function of contemporary architecture in the construction of a city becomes an object of reflection. The vitrine, interpretation of the façade of the auditorium, becomes a multifunctional platform: a place for the presentation of a monograph, furniture, receptacle for the viewing of videos, etc.

The work that is exhibited, MTV for La Tourette (1996/1997), includes five short videos that were shot in Sainte Marie de La Tourette, near Lyon, France. This monastery was constructed by Le Corbusier with the collaboration of the mathematician, composer and architect-engineer Iannis Xenakis. The parallelism between the architecture of the León Auditorium with this building gives Šušteršič a base with which to approach the relationship that users and spectators have on contemporary architecture.


Image: Rosa Barba. A Home for a Unique Individual. 2013. 35mm film still. © Rosa Barba

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