Past 2010
Shifting Drifts: experiences, journeys and morphologies Dates: May 5 - August 23, 2010 The premise for this exhibition consists in investigating some proposals for the urbus of the future in Latin American cities, which have remained at the margins of official narratives in the so-called First World. Does this involve a return to thinking about digressions and the New Babylon by Constant (1920-2005) from new urban initiatives and projects that have not been built? + info
Martín Ramírez. Reframing Confinement Dates: March 31 - July 12, 2010 This exhibition on Martín Ramírez will bring together some eighty drawings from 1948 to 1963, exploring this artist’s extraordinary production. These works highlight Ramírez’s memories of Mexico, as well as his encounter with the North American landscape and the richness of his unique imagination. Art critics celebrate Ramírez’s oeuvre for its bold lines, meticulous repetitions and extraordinary variations within the same themes addressed consistently by the artist. Also to be shown together with these works is a selection of drawings discovered in a garage in California in 2007, which have not yet been exhibited outside New York. + info
Tacita Dean: The Friar´s Doodle Dates:March 23 - June 27, 2010 Some weeks later, she proposed making a return visit in order to study more closely the doodles and graffiti on and around the columns in the cloister, marks that she imagined might have been incised over the centuries by monks as they whiled away the hours in lonely seclusion. On her second trip she photographed in close up every mark she could find there that appeared to have been deliberately drawn by a human hand. + info
Pierre Huyghe. The season of celebrations Dates: March 17 – June 13, 2010 Pierre Huyghe (Paris, 1962) has devised a project in Spring 2010 specifically for the Palacio de Cristal, where flowers, plants and trees in bloom will occupy this space for the first time. The project consists of placing different plants associated with various holiday periods in a circle, each one of them characteristic of a specific time of year, which gestures toward reading them as a clock where the different seasons are marked by the diversity of flora. Roses, violets, chrysanthemums, palm trees, plum trees, jasmine, bamboo and firs will mark each distinct time of year. + info
Mario García Torres. Have you ever seen the snow? Dates:February 10 – May 24, 2010 The Museo Reina Sofía presents the work of Mario García Torres, shown for the first time at a Spanish institution. After more than three years of rigorous research, this Mexican artist living in Los Angeles uncovers a new era in a curious relationship that some artists have with history. García Torres uses slides in his audiovisual piece created specifically for this occasion to relay a largely unknown chapter in the career of artist Alighiero Boetti: One Hotel, which opened in Afghanistan. + info
Dates: February 17 – May 17, 2010 Thomas Schütte is considered one of the most important German artists of his generation, having studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Fritz Schwegler and Gerard Richter. Since the late 1970s Thomas Schütte has been working on his homonym series that examine moments of human isolation, vulnerability and hopelessness, not without irony. He became well known in the 1980s for his architectural models—designs that push to the extreme their ability to simplify and exaggerate, and which unintentionally provide viewers with a sense of protection and mental refuge. His works have at once a handcrafted and a utopian appearance to them. All of Schütte’s oeuvre is imbued with social and political questions, as well as his concern for the artist’s relevance to and place within society. + info
Dates: January 13 - March 29, 2010 Francisco López (Madrid, 1964) presents the sound installation Untitled #223, a project created specifically for one of the Museum’s most unusual spaces and its particular acoustic effects: the metal interior corridor located on the top floor of the Nouvel Building. In this area, barely lit for the exhibition, the artist installs a sound system for visitors to experience the 8-minute piece. The installation creates a virtual sonic atmosphere with extreme contrasts; in order to do so, López draws from the metallic surfaces of the corridor’s floor, walls and ceiling, as well as the space’s peculiar measurements. + info
Dates: October 28, 2009 - March 7, 2010 Fabiolais an exhibition dedicated to Belgian artist Francis Alÿs (Antwerp, 1959) comprised of some three hundred works belonging to the artist’s collection. This exhibition could be seen last year at the Dia Art Foundation of New York and has been shown recently at the National Portrait Gallery in London, making its next stop at Silos. The exhibition’s point of departure is found in a work whose whereabouts are currently unknown: comprised of some three hundred works belonging to the artist’s collection. This exhibition could be seen last year at the Dia Art Foundation of New York and has been shown recently at the National Portrait Gallery in London, making its next stop at Silos. The exhibition’s point of departure is found in a work whose whereabouts are currently unknown: Fabiola in a Red Veil by French painter Jean–Jacques Henner (1829-1905), which represents the figure of St. Fabiola who lived in Rome around the fourth century. Over the years, Francis Alÿs has amassed numerous works by different artists who have depicted the Christian saint using highly diverse materials. With his collection, Alÿs aims at lending creative legitimacy to anonymous objects, an inherent characteristic in the artist’s own production and research on collecting. + info
León Ferrari and Mira Schendel: The Frenzied Alphabet Dates: November 25, 2009 - March 1, 2010 Schendel and Ferrari emerged during a time marked by the use of linguistic models—semiotics, post-structuralism, philosophies of language—to understand the world, a period when many intellectuals made language a paradigm for thought and for the world itself. Unlike Conceptual artists, their contemporaries in North America and Europe, Ferrari and Schendel use language not merely as a vehicle for expressing concepts or ideas but as an almost physical medium to shape and mold. Addressing language and art in their most concrete forms, they introduced the challenges of life into art as its content. The Frenzied Alphabet: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel is the first major exhibition of their work in the United States. + info
Georges Vantongerloo. Aspiring to Infinity Dates: November 4, 2009 - February 22, 2010
The Pamplona Encounters 1972: The End of the Party for Experimental Art Dates: October 28, 2009 - February 22, 2010
Place:Sabatini Building, Floor 4, Rooms 406 and 407
Joëlle Tuerlinckx. Crystal Times. Reflexions without Sun / Projections without Object Dates: October 9, 2009 - February 22, 2010
David Maljkovic: Out of Projection Dates: September 9, 2009 - January 18, 2010 The work of David Maljkovic, a Croatian artist who currently lives between Zagreb and Berlin, focuses on collective memory and amnesia, as well as the possibility of rebuilding a future. All of these questions are very much tied to the recent history of former Yugoslavia. Maljkovic’s installations mix videos, drawings, objects and architectural features, lending particular attention to architectural symbols and their meanings today. + info
Rodchenko y Popova. Defining Constructivism Dates: October 21, 2009 – January 11, 2010 One of the year’s most important exhibitions brings together works by two influential figures in defining the aesthetics and theories of Russian Constructivism: Lyubov Popova (1889 - 1924) and Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891 – 1956). Organized by the Tate Modern of London in collaboration with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and curated by Margarita Tupitsyn, the exhibition offers an extensive overview of an artistic movement that changed the face of Russian art. + info 2009 - 2008 - 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000 |
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