UNTIL SUNDAY 30/1
CARME CENTER. Museum, 2
The Center del Carme is once again a container for the works selected for the eighth edition of the Mardel Award for Visual Arts, 24 pieces in different formats (video, paint, photograph, sculpture, installation…) which offer a unique image of the work that some Spanish creators or residents in Spain are doing. The prize, endowed with 6.000 euros, has been for María Carbonell from Murcia for the recreation of the attack perpetrated by the suffragist Mary Richardson against the Mirror Venus from Velázquez to the National Gallery in London on 1914. She was protesting the way in which the English government was treating another suffragette in Holloway prison, famous this one, Emmeline Pankhurst. Arran of the attack, the work went from being a symbol of beauty (physical), an ideal of womanhood (passive) and a voluptuous object of contemplation (male) to embody a model of moral beauty, emancipated femininity and political militancy. A few years later, The Guerrilla Girls had a similar model, in this case The Great Odalisque of Ingres, to launch one of his messages against the discrimination suffered by women in the world of art: Do women have to be naked to get into Met. Museum? This group of feminist fighters appears in one of the three access awarded, to the work Untitled (In support of Guerrilla Girls. Shifting the figures) by Jesus Madriñán, an artist who will show us the 2019, also at the Carmel Center, what is Gen Z's nightlife like. S.M.
