Annual program 2020: Principle of uncertainty

Annual program 2020: Principle of uncertainty

TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes welcomes 2020 presenting its exhibition program for this year. The proposal of artistic direction of Gilberto González, with the title of "Principio de incertidumbre" [Principle of uncertainty], raises the collaboration with several curators and artists to carry out a dozen exhibitions. In addition to the exhibition program, the museum will also develop new public programs: "El Videoclub," a Film and Experimental Video program; "La Cresta" [The Crest], a Live Arts program run by Carlota Mantecón; "Rituales del Caos" [Rituals of Chaos] an anthropologic critical thinking program run by Pablo Estévez and Larisa Pérez Flores; "De/Tra(n)s," a program of dialogues and encounters surrounding the experiences of trans bodies in the border run by Jose Antonio Ramos Arteaga, and "Omnia" and "Onda Corta" education and mediation programs. In addition, in March TEA will open the application process to the residence program "Área 60. Producción 0" that will be held this September.

Exhibitions in 2020:

Ese otro mundo [That other world]
Curated by Gilberto González

Artists: Óscar Domínguez, Cindy Sherman, Esther Ferrer, René Magritte, Aurèlia Muñoz, Manolo Millares, María Belén Morales, Nan Golding, Yves Tanguy, Allan Sekula, Miriam Durango and Claude Cahun, among others.

Through the deployment of meaningful works in the collection of TEA, this exhibition narrates the variations that have been produced in the act of exhibiting and in the way of conceiving the space of the museum. The proposal is based on an invariable central axis of key works that have built the story of the museum. Against this selection of works, every two months, different artists, researchers and curators will raise questions and dissensions with new works of the collection. Each intervention in the exhibition is linked to a series of seminars and workshops that allow new visions of artistic processes that challenge the initial discourse of the museum.

On view: April 2, 2020-February 28, 2021

The willow sees the heron´s image upside down
Curated by Catalina Lozano

Artists: Berenice Abbott, Adrián Alemán, Bleda y Rosa, Santiago Borja, Brassaï, Carolina Caycedo, Wilson Díaz, Patricia Esquivias, Harun Farocki, Trino Garriga Abreu, Dan Graham, Michele Horrigan, Marine Hugonnier, Hector Hyppolite, Isuma, Patrick Keiller, Teresa Lanceta, Janelle Lynch, Sean Lynch, Gilda Mantilla & Raimond Chaves, Britta Marakatt-Labba, Carme Nogueira, Tania Pérez Córdova, Peter Piller, Xavier Ribas, Xabier Salaberria, Salvo, Amaia Urra and Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa.

The willow sees the heron’s image upside down explores how images of landscape have been constructed, both ideologically and technically. It considers the representation of landscape as one of the instances in which the notions of nature and culture converge to show the transits between the two. Through the notion of ruin, it seeks to critically reflect on a series of transactions, typical of the age of colonialism and capitalism, and their visible and invisible remains.

On view: April 2-June 7, 2020

Fernando Higueras desde el origen [Fernando Higueras. From the origin]
Curated by Lola Botia

This exhibition is dedicated to the architect Fernando Higueras (Madrid, 1930). Fan of music, painting, sculpture and photography, he participated in numerous competitions of the four artistic branches since 1953. In urban planning and architecture, he won countless awards and recognitions, among the most relevant: the First and Second Medal of Architecture at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts.

On view: April 23-July 5, 2020

Como ningún lugar en la Tierra [Like no place on Earth]
Curated by Néstor Delgado Morales

Artists: Irene de Andrés, Teresa Arozena, Mike Batista, Guillermo Boehler, Virginia Colwell, Sofía Gallisá Muriente, Andrés Jurado, Engel Leonardo, Joiri Minaya, Abraham Riveron, Juan José Valencia & Lena Peñate, among others.

Based on different artistic explorations, this exhibition essay proposes to review the history of the overseas territories of the North Atlantic route, historically marked by Columbus’ journeys, during the Cold War period. If the experience of the global trip seems marked by the idea that there is no place on Earth that has not been already explored, at the same time, it participates in the capitalist denial of the finiteness of material resources of the planet. This research proposes to discuss the idea of "universal experience," as a modern curiosity that wants to expand beyond the limits of the Earth, while it feels trapped in a small world.

On view: June 25-August 30, 2020

El gesto como resistencia. Acción y respuesta [The gesture as resistance. Action and response]
Curated by Natalia Álvarez Simó

Artists: Lotty Rosenfeld, Helio Oiticica, Zilia Sánchez, Antonio del Castillo Valencia, Carrie Mae Weems, Harun Farocki, among others.

It would be a mistake to believe that the work of art is always linked to a significant gesture. Where there is a work there was generally movement, but this obviousness cannot make us forget the fact that the gesture was often a subversive and risky action that contains a confrontation with a specific coercive power. The Crosses of Lotty Rosenfeld in front of the Palacio de la Moneda or Tropicalia by Helio Oiticica are recipients of all those critical gestures and a concrete political position.

On view: July 23-October 12, 2020

Porque para que haya fiesta también tiene que danzar el bosque
Curated by Michy Marxuach

This exhibition is based on the sentence of the ecologist Arnold Næss that says "'All things hang together' is a good slogan, but does not bring us far if we do not form some notions of how things work together." It offers a reflection that aims to unravel how in a homogenized and geographically dispersed world, activity and structures allow us to combine objects, ideas, subjectivities and techniques.

On view: September 17-November 22, 2020

Céline Condorelli
Curated by Adelaida Arteaga Fierro and Gilberto González

This solo show will explore the relationship between architecture, power and institutionality from a feminist and post-industrial perspective, situating this intersection in a place as Tenerife where tourism and landscape are economically indisociable.

On view: September 29, 2020-January 17, 2021

Retrospective: Luis Palmero
Curated by Nilo Palenzuela

Luis Palmero’s work has been influenced by post-minimal painting and European geometric abstraction, He has not been oblivious to the neo-expressionist movements and the utmost freedom that unfold in the eighties in Italy and Germany. His trajectory for forty years unfolds in almost obsessive back and forth on motives, forms and thoughts, as musical variations, as coves of a wide journey between silences and different chords. Among them, the intense dialogue with artists from European, American or Canary spaces stands out. Without fear of proximity, as a sign of a sensitivity marked by the attraction of color and the rhythms implicit in the forms, he dialogues with the work of the Canarian artist Jorge Oramas, of the Brazilian Alfredo Volpi, and of so many others that he considers creators of his "spiritual" family. In addition, Luis Palmero has been very close to contemporary music.

On view: December 11, 2020-February 14, 2021