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Carlos Maciá. 249 litros, 2015. Foto: cortesía del artista
Carlos Maciá. 249 litros, 2015. Foto: cortesía del artista
Carlos Maciá. 249 litros, 2015. Foto: cortesía del artista
Carlos Maciá. 249 litros, 2015. Foto: cortesía del artista
Carlos Maciá. 249 litros, 2015. Foto: cortesía del artista
Carlos Maciá. 249 litros, 2015. Foto: cortesía del artista
Carlos Maciá. 249 litros, 2015. Foto: cortesía del artista
Carlos Maciá. 249 litros, 2015. Foto: cortesía del artista
Carlos Maciá. 249 litros, 2015. Foto: cortesía del artista
Carlos Maciá. 249 litros, 2015. Foto: cortesía MARCO/Iria F. Mouriz
Carlos Maciá. 249 litros, 2015. Foto: cortesía MARCO/Iria F. Mouriz
Carlos Maciá. 249 litros, 2015. Foto: cortesía MARCO/Iria F. Mouriz

CARLOS MACIÁ. 249 litros

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Dates: 
16 January 2015 - 5 April 2015
Place: 
Anexo [main entrance]
Hours: 
Mondays to Saturdays (including bank holidays) from 11am to 9pm. Sundays, from 11am to 2:30pm
Production: 
MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo
Curator: 
Ángel Calvo Ulloa

ANNEX (ESPAZO ANEXO)


New project room on the former bookstore and gift shop space

Starting January 2015, the space formerly occupied by the bookstore and gift shop on the main entrance of MARCO will become a project room, in the spirit of the Espazo Anexo located on the pedestrian square at the back of the building from 2004 to 2011. Faithful to the MARCO trademark programming style, this new line highlights MARCO's self-produced projects, both regarding site-specific works and cycles of exhibitions in which a single curator organises a year long programme of exhibitions.

The programme starts with Intertextual, a series of works curated by Ángel Calvo Ulloa, which will unfold throughout one-year period. Carlos Maciá's 249 litros opens the series.

On the opening day, Friday 16 January at 7.30 pm, an open meet-and-greet with the audience will be led by the artist, Carlos Maciá, and the curator, Ángel Calvo Ulloa, at the conference room.

PROGRAMMING AND CALENDAR


INTERTEXTUAL
Exhibition Programme
Venue: nuevo Espazo Anexo (main entrance)
Curator: Ángel Calvo Ulloa
Production: MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo 

Carlos Maciá's action will be followed by other specific projects throughout 2015 by Mauro Cerqueira, Juan López, Fernando García and June Crespo.

MAURO CERQUEIRA (Guimarães, Portugal, 1982)

  • 10 April – 14 June 2015

JUAN LÓPEZ (Cantabria, 1979)

  • 26 June – 25 October 2015 

FERNANDO GARCÍA (Madrid, 1975)

  • 13 November 2015 – 24 January 2016

JUNE CRESPO (Bilbao, 1982)

5 February 2016 – 17 April 2016

Summary

INTERTEXTUAL
Exhibition programme during the year 2015
Anexo

[Intertextuality] 'is an idea that seems to be in vogue. But I don't only think of it in reference to literature. Literary works must be referred to other aesthetic spaces. This is a serious problem faced by literary criticism, at least as it is exercised in our part of the world. The musical aesthetics of Anton Webern has exerted a greater influence on me than other perhaps closer literary trends. Painting too, and not only its contemplation but also the reading of theoretical texts, as in the cases of Kandinsky or Klee. Broadly speaking, literary criticism is totally foreign to this phenomenon”.

José Ángel Valente

 

To quote José Ángel Valente, intertextuality cannot be understood merely in terms of the relationship between creators in the literary field. Influences must leave this series of invisible divisions behind and thus connect the plastic arts to poetry, music and philosophical thought, generating multiple dialogues that must be based on the commonplace.

Intertextual takes a selection of artists belonging to the same generation who represent the artistic reality of recent years, both on the national and the international scale, and that discover an ideal field of work in these interconnected influences. The timeframe is a year, during which the five exhibitions will take place. The proposal emerges out of the need to create spaces in which younger artists can shape their projects and where their work can be evaluated starting from the recreation and consolidation of a space like the Annex in MARCO.

The former Espazo Anexo located on the pedestrian square at the back of the MARCO building was used for a period of eight years as a project rom where resident artists created their works in situ. From 2004 to 2011 a total of twenty exhibitions were held in this space, giving some of the artists their first chance to show a solo exhibition in a museum. From this moment on, as the Intertextual series starts, the space in the main entrance formerly used as a bookstore and gift shop provides a perfect location for making the works as visible as possible, both because of its size and characteristics, and the constant flow of visitors walking by it.

The programme opens on 16 January, and Carlos Maciá's action will be followed by other specific projects throughout 2015 by Mauro Cerqueira (Guimarães, Portugal, 1982), Juan López (Cantabria, 1979), June Crespo (Bilbao, 1982), and Fernando García (Madrid, 1975).

249 litros, as the exhibition that inaugurates this space, shows visual complicity with the exhibition of works by Ángela de la Cruz that in 2004 opened the former Espazo Anexo. Maciá's action, carried out in 2013 at Le Corbusier's Swiss Pavilion in Paris, and the recent project 15 litros in Madrid have been the testing grounds for an oeuvre that exceeds the limits of the embraceable and for the artist poses a challenge at all levels.

Carlos Maciá's oeuvre mantains close ties with architecture. Coming as he does from the sphere of painting, his work unfolds on the walls of the gallery space, thereby transcending the support. The entrance of light alters our environment and captures those precise moments in which something magical seems to be happening — a perfect excuse to sit down and wait.

Carlos Maciá returns to MARCO nine years after taking part in the Urbanitas exhibition to occupy a space on which he had previously worked. Despite his immersion in a process that is inevitably related to sculpture, his new work is purely pictorial

Artists

Carlos Maciá


Carlos Maciá
(Lugo, 1977) graduated in Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and now lives and works in Madrid. He has taken part in numerous group shows, including Hospitalidad. Obras en la colección del CGAC, curated by Miguel von Hafe (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, 2014); On Painting (CAAM, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2013); Sin motivo aparente, curated by Javier Hontoria (CA2M, Móstoles, 2013); Urbanitas (MARCO, Vigo, 2006); Spain on the Edge. Fragments of a Narrative Conflict (Instituto Cervantes, Chicago, 2010); Look Up! Natural Porto Art Show, a performance project for the city of Porto, 2010; Ingràvid. Festival de Cultura Contemporánea do Ampordà (Figueres, Girona, 2010); Melodías prohibidas, a project for artistic actions in the framework of the Festival SOS 4.8 curated by David Barro (Murcia, 2011); and Festival Artec Primavera 2012 (Centro Ágora, Corunna). Among his solo exhibitions we should mention ¡Ten cuidado, no vayas a matar a alguien! (A Chocolataría, Santiago de Compostela, 2006); La leyenda del tiempo (MACUF, Corunna, 2008); ST. Provisória (espazo Carpe Diem: Arte e Pesquisa, Lisbon, 2011); and Pavillon Suisse at the Swiss Foundation of the Cité Internationale Universitaire in Paris. Maciá has received important prizes and scholarships such as those of the New York's Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2012), the CAM Plastic Arts Grant (Japan, 2009); Generaciones 2007 awarded by Caja Madrid, and the Unión Fenosa Grant for Artistic Creation Abroad (New York, 2006). His works can be found in important private and public collections such as Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo, MACUF, Caja Madrid, Caixanova, Cajastur and Fundación María José Jove.

www.carlosmacia.com

Curator

Ángel Calvo Ulloa


Ángel Calvo Ulloa
(Lalín, Pontevedra, 1984) lives and works in Madrid and Santiago de Compostela.

As a curator he has developed the public actions project entitled  Un disparo de advertencia (Lalín, Pontevedra, 2011); the show Natureza! Estás soa? by Álvaro Negro (PALEXCO, Corunna, 2011); the group show Welcome to my loft (Centro Torrente Ballester, Ferrol, 2012); Wily Forza Ingobernable (FAC, Santiago de Compostela, 2013); Sssh! del silencio un lenguaje (Galería Nuble, Santander, 2013); and the project Diálogos Improbables (Espazo NonLugar, Lalín, 2012-13). In 2014 and 2015 he curated Crise de Identidade (Fundación Granell, Santiago de Compostela); En el coche de San Fernando (SALÓN, Madrid); Sobre el muro (Galería L21, Madrid) within the programme entitled Jugada a 3 Bandas; Ende der party (Tokonoma Apartment, Kasel); C O M E R C U L E B R A (1er Escalón, Murcia); Fugir para lado algum within the programme Expediçao (Maus Hábitos, Oporto) and Del rombo al hexágono hay dos líneas, together with Tania Pardo (Galería Rosa Santos, Valencia). He is currently developing INTERTEXTUAL, an exhibition programme for the MARCO (Vigo) and together with Alfredo Aracil, he is working on Tener que sentir, with Los Bragales collection, for Antiguo Instituto Jovellanos (Gijón). Calvo has been granted within the Inéditos Program 2014, for organising the exhibition Aprender a caer in La Casa Encendida, Madrid, and also within the visual arts call Can Felipa, Barcelona, to develop the proposal Incluso un paisaje tranquilo… He has taken part in virtual projects like They've left us alone for The Naked, The Hague (2014) or Numismática con río Miño al fondo with Fermín Jiménez Landa for Curatorial Clube (2014). Ángel Calvo Ulloa is a member of the OsTres group currently working on the exhibition programme of Espacio Miramemira in Santiago de Compostela.

www.angelcalvoulloa.com