The María Luisa Caturla Chair
The Museo Reina Sofía Chairs are a place of permanent reflection around art history as a specific field of discourse and knowledge, its forms of writing — the narration and making inherent in its theory and practice — its methodological tensions and crossroads, and its flows into other knowledges and acts of making.
Alberto García-Alix, Autorretrato en la Alhambra, 1989
© Alberto García-Alix, VEGAP, Madrid, 2024
The María Luisa Caturla Chair reflects on art in eras “sick with uncertainty” to dismount, digress and imagine multiple temporalities and materialities in art history and cultural studies from an eccentric gaze, and in the sense of being “displaced”, “off- centre” or with a centre that is “different”.
The Chair commemorates María Luisa Caturla (1888-1984), a Spanish art historian, scholar and academic. Her publication Arte de épocas inciertas (Art in Uncertain Times, Arbor, 1944), prompts thought, from a transhistorical perspective, on artistic practices in times shaped by crisis, ambiguity and transformation.
About the Chairs
Annually scheduled spaces for dialogue and debate which seek to rethink the present from multiple perspectives.