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19/1/2007

Five Exhibitions

MUSAC Contemporary Art Museum, Leon

Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/ SANAA

Curator: Agusti'n Pe'rez Rubio

MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contempora'neo de Castilla y Leo'n is pleased to present for the first time in Spain, a major exhibition that traces the artistic trajectory of the Japanese team of architects, SANAA formed by Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa. Winners of the Golden Lion in the 9th Venice Biennial for Architecture for the IVAM Extension Building (Valencia) and for the Kanazawa Museum (Japan), they are one of the most prestigious firms on an international level who, from the start of their careers in Japan up to world-wide recognition at present, have known how to elaborate a whole new dictum of aesthetic as well as engineering proposals, converting their architecture into one of the most solid in the international scene.

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Down with Intelligence

Curator: Tania Pardo

Under the title Abajo la inteligencia (Down with Intelligence), Fernando Sa'nchez Castillo presents a complex reflection on 20th-century Spanish history, through a selection of sculptural, pictorial and audiovisual works. Hosted by the MUSAC, the show offers insight into three aspects linking the central ideas behind this artist’s work. First, the importance of statues and monuments, such as the lions flanking the entrance to the Spanish parliament, or referring to overthrown heroes; and elements from our collective memory, such as the car in which former Spanish Prime Minister Carrero Blanco was travelling when he was assassinated. Second, the need to redraw history, hybridising the comic and journalistic illustrations used prior to photography. And third, two videos, one of which, Rich Cat Dies of Heart Attack in Chicago (screened at the 26th Biennial of Sao Paulo in 2004), shows people pushing the enormous head of a statue. Baraka, the second video, produced specially for the occasion, muses on the history of Spain itself and, more particularly, on the idea of destiny linked to power.

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Candice Breitz: Multiple Exposure

Curator: Octavio Zaya

The MUSAC presents a monographic exhibition of the work of Candice Breitz. This survey of recent works made since 2000 will focus strongly on the artist’s multi-channel video installations. Breitz’s work addresses the complex relationship between culture and consumption, probing and dissecting the rocky chasms between reality and fiction, experience and language, identity and its representations. The exhibition’s curator Octavio Zaya describes Breitz’s work as a practice that ‘isolates the found footage that the artist often takes as her source, aggressively re-directing this footage against its characteristically narrative and anesthetic functions." But Breitz’s interventions are not simply critical attacks on the products of mass entertainment: they also take seriously the significance that pop culture acquires for those who consume it and use it.

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The world today: 20 books on photography

A Project of: Rafael Doctor and Araceli Corbo

MUSAC will show a selection of 20 books on photography published by the most prestigious publishing houses in the world in the last five years. The selection has been undertaken under the criteria of printing and bonding quality selection of authors and images, but above all, considering the very concept of the book within the most important publishing houses of art books and photographic albums in the world. Worth mentioning are: Twin Palms, Steidl, Hatje Cantz, Schimer/Mosel, Charta, etc. and books such as American Prospects by Joel Sternfeld (published by DAP), A Storybook Life by Philip-Lorca diCorcia and Anthony Goicolea (Twin Palms) or China by Burtynski (Steidl).

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Sympathetic magic

Curator: Tania Pardo

The American artist Clare E. Rojas (Ohio, USA, 1976) is presenting an individual exhibition for the first time in Spain, and in it she will be turning to a drawing-based installation to show the world of iconography behind American folk imagery, through her complex vision of ‘folk art’. Animal anthropology, landscapes and the various characters: all emerge as visual references to American folk culture and traditional lore. With no straight narrative behind them, her drawings each offer a fragment of unreality, an alternate world in which the women characters can escape from contemporary realities. The result is a large composition of scenes that form a kind of graphic novel telling of a complex, allegory-rich world. Her appropriation of various folk images to address female social concerns is directly related to the feminist tradition of the 1970s, and more specifically to Miriam Schapiro and Judy Chicago.

Opening: 20 january 2007

MUSAC
Avda. de los Reyes Leoneses, 24 - Leon

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