Juan Luis Moraza
dal 14/10/2014 al 1/3/2015
Segnalato da
14/10/2014
Juan Luis Moraza
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
republic. A broad selection of his works and structuring them in areas that examine the museum as a system of conventions
republic is an exhibition by Juan Luis Moraza (Vitoria, 1960), assembling a broad selection of his works and structuring them in areas that examine the museum as a system of conventions and possibilities of citizenship. If one of the problems of contemporary democracy is the dilemma facing each citizen - between passivity and the possibilities of participation in social life - in the museum Moraza finds a space of convergence between the citizen-artist and citizen-spectator. Yet for the artist the public issue is not merely political, it is also anthropological and concerns the constitution of subjectivity itself. Moraza has always constructed, in a mutual interaction with his artistic output, a conceptual discourse, where language and ideas also denote a place inhabited by the artist, along with the forms and characteristics of objects and situations put forward in each project. Thus, Moraza's museum will be his republic, a space of interpretation and transformation understood as a system of participation. His work and the present exhibition explore the crisis of representation, be it in the individual or in society, questioned as representation and represencialidad; the artist proposes a place that is transformed into a system of "implexities", a term he uses to designate the crossroads between complexity and implication, between the rights and responsibilities of the social interplay taken up by the museum. Curated by Joao Fernandes.