VAT. Guillem de Castro, 118
The exhibition Counterculture is the palpable demonstration of how difficult it is to treat theunderground from an institution as institutionalized as a museum. Counterculture is anarchy, improvisation, disorder, cutrez, irreverence, amateurism, provocation and hooliganism, attributes that don't go too well with museum idiosyncrasies. That is why the IVAM has not finished reproducing the atmosphere that was lived outside the official margins in the Valencia of the years 70 i 80, but the content does manages to give us an idea of how barriers were broken by wielding painted weapons, fanzines, performances and transformism, which closes the tour by recalling the transgression that figures like Margot or Encarnita Duclown took to the stage. According to the curator of the show, Alberto Mira, counterculture is not made by individuals, but by networks. For the most carnivalesque version of the fallas embodied by the King Kong Falla, for a feminism that plays with the stereotypes of women through art (Angela García Codoñer), for magazines like Turia i Ajoblanco, by wonderful artists like Rampova with comics that mixed classic Hollywood with politics (Cabaret Oklahoma), per fanzines as Kaos o massacre, for the movements punk, anarchist and squatter. S.M.
