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Scene I. Landscape is part of the acts of commemoration of the 35 IVAM birthday, The first Valencian cultural institution and the seventh within the Spanish racing. It was the first decentralized contemporary art museum to be inaugurated in the state to satisfy the aspirations of self -government within the state of the autonomies, thanks to the direction of figures such as Andreu Alfaro in that direction., Tomás Llorens, Ciprià Císcar and the heirs of the artist Julio González, whose work guards the IVAM next to the important collection of Ignacio Pinazo and important photography collections. Explained the former director of the museum, Nuria lipita, before their unexpected resignation, that the institution today cannot afford to buy pieces from the sixties, But then you could acquire work of the twenty, What gives an idea of how the art market has changed in recent decades and pushes us to evaluate what was done then, When you could still. Landscape is a new review of the IVAM collection that serves to commemorate its 35 birthday, This is how it sells and so you need to receive it, without ignoring that in an exhibition made of own funds, many heavy expenses are saved, in an institution that has seen its budget cut in 1.3 million. At the moment, All the exhibitions that Ivam has in active are made of own funds.
Landscape does not seek to study landscape as a 19th -century pictorial genre, but looks at it as the context where life develops, “Making landscape is to make country”, He said at a press conference remembering that they are two words with the same root. The exhibition brings together fifty works from 33 artists of 1930 to the present day and serve to continue to value the collection, showing, in passing, the acquisitions of the last years. For example, he Burnt Quipu of lab the indígena ecoattivist Cecilia Vicuña, an installation made of no spinning wool hanging from the roof to remember the destruction of land around the world. But the key piece of this route is Spiral crossed of Robert Smithson, a cardboard sculpture that folds on itself in spiral and has all its walls crossed by branches. Com her, This proposal crosses time, spaces, materials, Languages and gestures. The sample approach is to overcome the theme-historical axis and decontextualize the work to re-contextualize it from different prisms. objects, paintings, screens, images, drawings, sculptures and installations, crossed by gesture, the performance, the story, the figuration and abstraction, they raise different issues about the landscape, the territory, the rooting, the belonging, the climate emergency (global o local), the colonialism, L’Horta, the story, the destruction of land and ancestral knowledge.
Ignacio Pinazo He was one of the first Valencian artists in painting the movement of outdoor people by catching the light and the moment, In the vegetable garden of Valencia specifically. His works dialogue here with LUCE, that takes small actions in your environment to resignify past action or subtly intervene a landscape. Paul Klee Draw intuitive lines in an abstract diagram that combines land and universe, Susana Solano Homitus Smithson's spiral with tiles and metal mesh, Zineb Sedira Photograph the brands violated in Algeria by the colonizers, Miquel Navarro deploy on the ground an ordered city of oxidized iron, d’Antoni Tàpies hangs matural painting with marks and footprints, Henri Matisse Let the colonial imaginary escape painting an idealized landscape arising from the memories of a trip to Tahiti, Adolph Gottlieb makes abstraction inspired by the tissues and paintings of the Aborigines on the Pacific Northwestern Coast, Pierre Soulages Stripe ultranegra painting (clar) as horses in the earth, Jean Arp strip of nature to create a shell-cloister of cloud and Manuel Millares it makes pictorial geography with its sculpture dedicated to the Orinoco river. A whole landscape celebration to commemorate the 35 IVAM birthday. S.M.
