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Danh Vō’s (Bà Ria, Vietnam, 1975) art work subverts and plays with classic appropriation and opportunistic strategies of Western art in its approach to other cultures. His installations, sculptures, photographs and works on paper, particularly his early work, often calls on his origins and experiences, interspersing them with cultural, social, and historical references.
In an empirical yet not deductive approach, the artist establishes connections between objects and ideas that open up new possibilities of seeing , collecting, presenting and implying new meanings that upset the predominant historical discourse. Language and sexuality operate as elements of transition between desire, aesthetic emotion, and critical interpretation, while Eros, religion, history and politics reciprocally confront and subvert each other in his pieces.
Danh Vō utilises 21st-century industrial exhibition typology to portray the unique architecture in the Palacio de Cristal, encapsulating the nostalgia of a nineteenth-century palaeontology and archaeology museum inside a large display cabinet.
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Current exhibitions
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15 December 2020 – 12 April 2021
The Kind Cruelty
León Ferrari, 100 Years
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11 November, 2020 - 1 March, 2021
Mondrian and De Stijl
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Exhibition temporarily closed
Anna-Eva Bergman
From North to South, Rhythms
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14 October, 2020 - 15 February 2021
Audiosphere
Sound Experimentation 1980-2020
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7 October, 2020 - 26 April, 2021
Niño de Elche
Invisible Auto Sacramental: A Sonic Representation from Val del Omar
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23 September, 2020 - 1 March, 2021
Disonata
Art in Sound up to 1980
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Exhibition temporarily closed
Petrit Halilaj
To a raven and hurricanes that from unknown places bring back smells of humans in love
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25 September 2020 – 5 February 2021
What Are We Doing Here?
Alternative Spaces in Madrid at the Turn of the Century
Muestras documentales, Biblioteca y Centro de Documentación