THE MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO DE CASTILLA Y LEÓN INAUGURATES FIVE NEW EXHIBITIONS THIS COMING JANUARY 20th
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MUSAC Press Office: 34 987 09 11 03
Avda. de los Reyes Leoneses, 24.
24008 León España. Spain
The latest video installations of Candice Breitz, the review of Spanish history by Fernando Sánchez Castillo and the shows on the architecture of the Japanese firm SANAA may be visited starting January 20th.
SANAA will present a compilation of its most relevant projects and designs as well as a 1:2 scale mock-up of a residential prototype at MUSAC, Candice Breitz will show her latest productions in video, Fernando Sánchez Castillo reflects, in a series of works, on the recent history of Spain and the American Clare Rojas will show a selection of drawings that reinterprets the folklore of her country in the annex space Laboratorio 987. In the Showcase Project some 20 books on photography in the last five years will be exhibited. MUSAC is a project of the Junta de Castilla y León through the Fundación Siglo.
Exhibition title: Candice Breitz: Multiple Exposure
Artist: Candice Breitz (Johannesburg, South Africa, 1972)º
Curator: Octavio Zaya
Coordination: Marta Gerveno, Alexander Fahl
Venue: Halls 1 and 3, MUSAC
Dates: January 20 – May 2, 2007 press release, download high-resolution image, c.v
The MUSAC presents a monographic exhibition of the work of Candice Breitz. This survey of recent works made since 2000 will focus strongly on the artists multi-channel video installations. Breitzs work addresses the complex relationship between culture and consumption, probing and dissecting the rocky chasms between reality and fiction, experience and language, identity and its representations.
Exhibition title: Down with Intelligence/ Abajo la Inteligencia
Artist: Fernando Sánchez Castillo (Madrid, 1970)
Curator: Tania Pardo
Coordinator: Eduardo García Nieto
Venue: Exhibition Halls 2.1 and 2.2, MUSAC
Dates: January 20 – May 2, 2007 press release, download high-resolution image, c.v
Under the title Abajo la inteligencia (Down with Intelligence), Fernando Sánchez Castillo presents a complex reflection on 20th-century Spanish history, through a selection of sculptural, pictorial and audiovisual works
Exhibition title: Kazuyo Sejima Ryue Nishizawa/ SANAA
Architects: Kazuyo Sejima Ryue Nishizawa
Curator: Agustín Pérez Rubio
Assistant Curator and MUSAC Coordinator: Kristine Guzmán
SANAA Coordinator: Sam Chermayeff
Venue: Galleries 4 and 5, MUSAC
Dates: January 20 – May 1, 2007 press release, download high-resolution image, c.v
MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León is pleased to present for the first time in Spain, a major exhibition that traces the artistic trajectory of the Japanese team of architects, SANAA formed by Kazuyo Sejima Ryue Nishizawa. Winners of the Golden Lion in the 9th Venice Biennial for Architecture for the IVAM Extension Building (Valencia) and for the Kanazawa Museum (Japan), they are one of the most prestigious firms on an international level.
Exhibition title: The world today in 20 books on photography
A Project of: Rafael Doctor and Araceli Corbo
Venue: Showcases of the entrance hall, MUSAC
Dates: January 20 – May 2, 2007 press release, download high-resolution image, c.v
MUSAC will show a selection of 20 books on photography published by the most prestigious publishing houses in the world in the last five years. The selection has been undertaken considering the very concept of the book within the most important publishing houses of art books and photographic albums in the world.
Exhibition title: Sympathetic magic
Artist: Clare E. Rojas (Ohio, USA, 1976)
Curator: Tania Pardo
Coordination: Helena López Camacho
Venue: Laboratorio 987, in the MUSAC
Dates: January 20 – March 4, 2007 press release, download high-resolution image, c.v
The American artist Clare E. Rojas (Ohio, USA, 1976) is presenting an individual exhibition for the first time in Spain, and in it she will be turning to a drawing-based installation to show the world of iconography behind American folk imagery, through her complex vision of folk art.
For further information and images please contact: www.musac.es/prensa/
MUSAC Press Office: 34 987 09 11 03
Avda. de los Reyes Leoneses, 24. 24008 León España. Spain
