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8/7/2010

The quinquis, or petty criminals, of the 80s

La Casa Encendida, Madrid

The quinquis, or petty criminals, of the 80s
Films, the press and the street

The exhibition is based around the figure of the "quinqui", or petty criminal, coined by the juvenile delinquency film genre that experienced its zenith in Spain between 1978 and 1985.
The exhibition is divided into two sections. The first analyses the figure of the quinqui as an icon, showing in detail the way the sensationalist press reported on the day-to-day lives of young delinquents, based on their arrest, the correctional institution and their subsequent escape. It depicts an aestheticism and stereotyped portrayal of criminals in the 80s, showing the way in which the phenomenon was projected, especially in the pictorial press and in films, and the way one form of media fed off the other.
Characters such as El Vaquilla and El Jaro became both everyday heroes of life on the margins of society and irresistible fodder for the press. Also analysed here are amusement arcades as the main form of leisure for adolescents, the stars of the exhibition. This territory groups together that generation of young people of the seventies and the youth culture industry in an international context and its capitalist forms of consumption.
It is not only the press stories which feed the films but also the films which feed the newspapers. Behind the myth, analysed and examined in-depth in the exhibition, are the real events, for which explanations and motives also need to be sought, above all in order to prevent individual tragedies in the future like those experienced by the quinquis in the 1980s, tragedies which are, in essence, evidence of a collective failure.

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Inéditos 2010
Three exhibition projects by young exhibition organisers

29 June to 29 August / Room A, B and C.

Every year since 2002 Obra Social Caja Madrid has been organising the Inéditos (Unprecedented) competition, offering grants for contemporary art exhibition projects. A programme aimed at young exhibition organisers for undertaking unprecedented exhibition projects, which cover any aspect of contemporary artistic creation and which stand out for the innovation, quality, and suitability of the project for the resources available.

The number of projects received each year, their quality and their variety confirm the vitality of the emerging creation in our country, and the phenomenon which curating has become, not only in the contemporary art world but also within the cultural sphere.

This year's jury is composed of Tania Pardo, Project Director of the Fundación Santander 2016, exhibition organiser and independent critic; Manuel Segade, independent exhibition organiser; Ivan de la Nuez, Head of the Cultural Activities Department, Centre de Cultura Contemporània of Barcelona and José Guirao, Director of La Casa Encendida.

This year's winning projects were "Oscuro y Salvaje" (Dark and Wild), organised by Edu Hurtado. A curatorial research project in which the "forest" becomes a metaphorical land of desire and fury. A space which is used to reflect on the violence inherent in human beings and which also serves as an excuse to analyse the rules of control of the value system.

Also, "Everything is out there (Todo está ahí fuera)" by Rosa Lleó and Zaida Trallero, an exhibition on the repetition of images and objects from the past and the way in which these are interpreted.

"De Zines", organised by Roberto Vidal and Óscar Martín, aims to reflect what is happening in contemporary publishing concerning independent publications; how this field relates to the field of artistic production and the contemporary social, cultural and political environment.

La Casa Encendida is an open and dynamic social and cultural centre of the Obra Social Caja Madrid

La Casa Encendida
Ronda de Valencia, 2 (28012, Madrid)
open from Monday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day of the year except national and Community of Madrid holidays.

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