VAT. Guillem de Castro, 118
The IVAM remembers Ángeles Marco in this retrospective exhibition ten years after his death and twenty years after the exhibition The memory workshop that the museum itself dedicated to the sculptor. His work is hard, dark, without concessions. Built from industrial materials (hierro, rubber…), contributed decisively to the renewal of sculpture in Spain between the decades of the 80 y 90 with theoretical assumptions of postminimalism and conceptual art. Marco understood sculpture as a fiction populated by doors that scare, corridors that lead nowhere and information panels that inform you of nothing. For her, sculpture was a visual narrative covered in poetics., a metaphor, and over time he entered the field of performance to never abandon it. The IVAM exposes, plus some sound installation, a replica of the work Mouth (The transit series), made of wood and wet salt that becomes petrified, as a metaphor for life and pieces from his best-known series, Jump into the void. The abyss of existence, the fear of falling, the vertigo, runs through a good part of his work and gives the title to this exhibition in which you will find elevators, trampolines, bridges and a golden pendulum (all other pieces are black or gray) which was installed in the castle of Santa Bárbara de Alacant shortly before its author died. S.M.
