CGAC Departamento de prensa e comunicacion
To celebrate its 20th anniversary the CGAC presents an exhibit focuses on the 90ies art scene, which, particularly in the Iberian Peninsula, underwent a deep transformation after the normalisation of the political system and the advent of democracy in Spain and Portugal.
Curated by Miguel von Hafe Pérez
To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the CGAC presents an exhibit titled
93 taking us back to the year when it opened its doors to the public,
back in the early nineties.
Over the last twenty years, the museum designed by Álvaro Siza
Vieira played an important role in the dissemination, preservation
and study of contemporary art.
93 is an exhibition that lets the chronological scope define its essential
matrix: like a slice of history, works by more than one hundred local
and foreign artists working in various media and formats will be
presented. Beyond the time period, the exhibition will showcase
almost exclusively works from private and institutional collections in
Spain, Portugal and France, reflecting the art scene in both private
and institutional collections that – particularly in the Iberian – began
its path after the normalisation of the political system with the advent
of the respective democracies.
At the beginning of the nineteen-nineties, we are able to discern a very
deep change in methods of cultural production, precisely because the
art system undergoes a significant and ongoing process of
professionalisation. It is also a time when artists live on the dregs of
the euphoria of the eighties, with a greater critical awareness of
economic, political and social aspects arising not only from the deep
market crisis at the end of the previous decade, but also due to the
emergence of concerns and studies related to gender. Likewise, the
disengagement of art with regards to the market made it possible to
experiment more freely with other visual languages such as
photography or video, which then became consolidated as regular
museum practices.
Thus, 93 will combine not only the emerging presences in different
national contexts, but also artists we believe are paradigms for that
new generation, on a horizontal timeline that will allow the viewer a
precise trip through time.
Artists in the exhibition:
Ignasi Aballí, Pep Agut, Ana Laura Aláez, Nobuyoshi Araki, Txomin Badiola, Miroslaw Balka, Jorge Barbi, Xosé Carlos Barros, Ross Bleckner, Bleda & Rosa, Angela Bulloch, Gerardo Burmester, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Berta Cáccamo, Pedro Calapez, Nuria Canal, Vari Caramés, Fernando Casás, Rui Chafes, Victoria Civera, Jordi Colomer, José Pedro Croft, Mark Dion, Pepe Espaliú, Harun Farocki, Ângela Ferreira, Michel François, Joan Fontcuberta, Coco Fusco & Paula Heredia, Carlos Garaicoa, Dora García, Nan Goldin, Douglas Gordon, Antony Gormley, Renée Green, Andreas Gursky, Graham Gussin, Federico Guzmán, Peter Halley, Mona Hatoum, José Antonio Hernández-Diez, Gary Hill, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Thomas Hirschhorn, Roni Horn, Ánxel Huete, Pierre Huyghe, Cristina Iglesias, Pello Irazu, Derek Jarman, Menchu Lamas, Antón Lamazares, Langlands & Bell, Jonathan Lasker, Jac Leirner, Francisco Leiro, Leonilson, Rogelio López Cuenca, João Louro, Chris Marker, Din Matamoro, Chelo Matesanz, Manuel Moldes, Pedro Mora, Juan Luis Moraza, Juan Muñoz, Antonio Murado, Lucia Nogueira, Itziar Okariz, Julian Opie, Xurxo Oro Claro, Gabriel Orozco, Miguel Palma, Antón Patiño, Manolo Paz, Carlos Pazos, Pamen Pereira, Perejaume, Walid Raad & Jayce Salloum, Pipilotti Rist, Pedro G. Romero, Martha Rosler, Thomas Ruff, Francisco Ruiz de Infante, Edward Ruscha, Doris Salcedo, Julião Sarmento, Sean Scully, Susana Solano, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sam Taylor-Wood, Francesc Torres, Javier Tudela, Juan Uslé, Eulàlia Valldosera, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Xesús Vázquez, Manuel Vilariño, Gillian Wearing, William Wegman, Rachel Whiteread.
Image: Juan Uslé, The Guardian, 1993. Colección particular, en depósito na Fundación RAC
CGAC Departamento de prensa e comunicacion
Tel.: 981 546 602 / Fax: 981 546 625 cgac.prensa@xunta.es
Opening: 22nd november at 8 pm
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea CGAC
Rúa Valle Inclán 2 15704 Santiago de Compostela - Spain
Opening times: 11.00 to 20.00
Closed on Monday
Free entry