Minimal Resistance
dal 15/10/2013 al 5/1/2014
Segnalato da
15/10/2013
Minimal Resistance
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Between late modernism and globalisation: artistic practices during the 80s and 90s. A selection of works from the museum's Collection which analyse the series of dualities that polarized the period in question; from the worldwide economic crisis to financial capitalism, from the potential of the collective to the recovery of the myth of the artist...
Curatorship:
Manuel Borja-Villel, Rosario Peiró, Beatriz Herráez. Curatorial Assistants: Cristina Cámara, Lola Hinojosa
Artists:
Ignasi Aballí, Pep Agut, Txomin Badiola, Ángel Bados, Georg Baselitz, Lothar Baumgarten, Dara Birnbaum, Cabello/Carceller (Helena Cabello [París, 1963]; Ana Carceller [Madrid, 1964]), Miguel Ángel Campano, Guy de Cointet, Jordi Colomer, René Daniëls, Hanne Darboven, Moyra Davey, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Marlene Dumas, Diamela Eltit, Erreakzioa-reacción, Pepe Espaliú (José González Espaliú), Estrujenbank (Patricia Gadea [Madrid, 1960-Palencia, 2006]; Juan Ugalde [Bilbao, 1958]; Dionisio Cañas [Tomelloso, Ciudad Real, 1949]; Mariano Lozano), Harun Farocki, María Luisa Fernández, Peter Fischli, Peter Friedl, Patricia Gadea, Radical Gai, Dora García, José María Giro, Jack Goldstein, Leon Golub, Dan Graham, Guerrilla Girls, Federico Guzmán, Candida Höfer, Jenny Holzer, General Idea, Cristina Iglesias, Pello Irazu, Joaquim Jordá, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Louise Lawler, Pedro Lemebel, Mark Lombardi, Rogelio López Cuenca, LSD, LTTR, José Maldonado, Allan McCollum, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Miralda, Antoni Miralda, Juan Luis Moraza, Reinhard Mucha, Matt Mullican, Antoni Muntadas, Juan Muñoz, Paz Muro, Itziar Okariz, Ulrike Ottinger, Marc Pataut, Raymond Pettibon, Sigmar Polke, Preiswert, readymades belong to everyone, Pedro G. Romero, Helke Sander, Agustin Parejo School, Allan Sekula, Cindy Sherman, Fernando Sinaga, Jo Spence, Hito Steyerl, Thomas Struth, Rosemarie Trockel, Juan Ugalde, Juan Uslé, Eulàlia Valldosera, Marcelo Expósito/Arturo Rodríguez/Gabriel Villota, David Weiss, James Welling, Franz West.
With this selection of works from its Collection, Museo Reina Sofía takes a look at the art produced in the 80s and 90s. Unlike past presentations, contemporary art collections always set out from a necessarily fragmented position, which means that this is the first vision of new presentations that will succeed one another in the near future. On this occasion the focal point is the search by artists for spaces of resistance in a globalised world.
Minimal resistance analyses the series of dualities that polarized the period in question; from the worldwide economic crisis to financial capitalism, from the potential of the collective to the recovery of the myth of the artist, from interventions that glorify public space to the discourses that surround memory and the body, from the theatricality that emphasizes the scenographic and architectural to the language of more performative and relational models, from the rehabilitation of traditional genres to the appropriation of images from mass media and culture, clearly the tensions of the period have given rise to a multiplicity of overlapping practices and discourses, and to a renewal of the codes and languages of art.
Organised by Museo Reina Sofía within the framework of “The Uses of Art,” a project by the European museum network L’Internationale. L’Internationale proposes a space for art within a non-hierarchical and decentralised internationalism, based on the value of difference and horizontal exchange among a constellation of cultural agents, locally rooted and globally connected. Comprising six major European museums, Moderna galerija (MG, Ljubljana, Slovenia); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (MNCARS, Madrid, Spain); Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA, Barcelona, Spain); Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium); SALT (Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey) and Van Abbemuseum (VAM, Eindhoven, the Netherlands) and associate organisations from the academic and artistic fields.
Image: Fischli and Weiss. Minimal Resistance, 1980-1981. Filmación DVD. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. © Peter Fischli David Weiss, Zürich 2013
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