CARME CENTER. Museum, 2
Five exhibitions opened the Center del Carme season with a bang in September. In a time of uncertainty, of speculating and taking short and insecure steps, The convent museum has unleashed all its artillery at once trying to convey a strong message of support for culture. “Here we are and here we will be”, they seem to mean.
Of the five exhibitions that opened their doors last month, the Posting of signs is prohibited. REA [until the 8/11], curated by Boke Bazán and MacDiego, which collects twenty years of Valencian poster art in the Carlos Pérez room, its natural place. The Valencian Community is a land rich in graphic design and it knows how to make poster art, a support highly appreciated by professionals for its attractiveness and the creative freedom it allows.. That is why we will be World Capital of Design in 2022. We can boast of big names like Paco Bascuñán, Daniel Nebot or Ibán Ramón, which of course are represented in the sample, but we wanted to expand the range as much as possible (hay 365 represented authors) also giving visibility to emerging authors who confirm the good health of the Valencian youth academy. You will see official Fallas posters, of course, but also others that announce small self-publishing festivals or ravesin alternative locations in the city. And there is another of the kits in question, the client. At the presentation press conference, Bazán put a lot of emphasis on the importance of who pays because there can be a lot of talent in one place, but if customers do not value it and encourage it, creativity has the lost battle. The Book Fair, Tenderete, the party of 9 of October, the Ocultes de La Nau exhibition and the Festival 10 Senses become two-dimensional and four-color art. MacDiego said it: “How boring a city would be without signs”.
At the exhibition From the borders of silence [until the 8/11] the Valencian Language Academy rediscovers the Valencian writer Carmelina Sánchez-Cutillas by showing the own room of the author with her pink typewriter and her inseparable packet of Chesterfield tobacco and her role as a historian, poet and storyteller who reached the top with her book of childhood memories Matter of Brittany. In Spectre [until the 15/11] Sound artist Edu Comelles makes sound visible in five installations that result from playing with recordings and electromagnetic signals, oppression [until the 18/10] makes visible the mediation work developed by Elisa M. Matallín with various groups of women who have suffered oppression and The apartment [until the 29/11] is a performative exhibition in which Fermín Jiménez Landa exchanges the roles of the Room 1 from the Center del Carme and a mysterious apartment rented by the artist near the museum. AU
