UNTIL SUNDAY 4/10
CCCC. Museum, 2
The ground is not just memory, It is present and is in the crosshairs of superpowers like China and the United States, who fight secretly to control access to those rare earths so essential for many modern technologies. But, in addition to exploitable resource, The soil is also the support of our ecosystem and Juana Francés knew how to value it in the second half of the 20th century.. The woman from Alicante was the only woman member of the El Paso group, along with totems of the Spanish avant-garde such as Antoni Tàpies, Manolo Millares or Antonio Saura, and took his informalism to the most important international events of the moment; between them, the prestigious Venice Biennale. She managed to be one of the main representatives of avant-garde Spanish art in the international arena during the decades of 1950 y 1960 defending that matter expresses itself. Hoy, at the Center del Carmen, the lowering of the pedestal to dialogue with contemporary artists who take the earth's surface as a creative source. According to the curator of the exhibition, Núria Montclús, “we find ourselves facing a new resurgence of the subject that we could compare with a revisited informalism: ecological, geological and political. Soil memories proposes a dialogue between four works by Francés and seven current artists that explore ecological dimensions, land policies and symbols. AU
