Exhibition. Marc Pataut. First Attempts

Marc Pataut, Le Cornillon - Grand Stade (Saint-Denis), 1994-1997. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

Marc Pataut, Le Cornillon - Grand Stade (Saint-Denis), 1994-1997. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

The photography of Marc Pataut (Paris, 1952) is structured around the formulation of research projects which address those political and human issues which often stand outside art institutions’ parameters. Through his photographs, the artist sets forth a link between different collective and individual practices, bringing to light the co-existence of different realities, shining a spotlight on the most disadvantaged groups as he explores the ways of opening up photographic expression and the category of the artist upon sharing the camera in some of his series.

The exhibition brings into focus the period stretching from 1981 to 2001, punctuating the 1990s, the time in which the artist documented the emergence of new social movements in France, those in close proximity to the labour demands which would result in a new concept of the political subject.

Dates: From April 25 to August 27, 2018
Location: Sabatini Building, Floor 3
Organized by: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Curated by: Jorge Ribalta

 

Lecture. Marc Pataut in conversation with Jorge Ribalta

In conjunction with the opening of Marc Pataut. First Attempts, the galleries of the exhibition will play host to a conversation between the artist and Jorge Ribalta, the show’s curator, on photography as an instrument for capturing life at its most vulnerable and precarious, and as a  public service and a form of institutional critique. Other issues addressed will include the ethics of representation of the disadvantaged subject and, ultimately, the reasons why photography remains pivotal as an artistic practice of the real.

Dates: Wednesday, 25 April 2018
Hour: 7pm
Location: Sabatini Building, Floor 3
Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía
In collaboration with: illycaffè
With the support of: Institut français d'Espagne
Language: French, with simultaneous interpretation
Price: Free admission, until full capacity is reached

 

International Dance Day. Study for Tambourine and An Experience of Transmission: BACH

María Muñoz performing Bach © Jordi Bover

María Muñoz performing Bach © Jordi Bover

The Museo Reina Sofía brings International Dance Day forward to Saturday 28 April with a double programme showcasing the work of choreographers Sofía Asencio (Societat Doctor Alonso) and María Muñoz (Mal Pelo), accompanied by Tirso Orive and Federica Porello, respectively.

Both proposals, despite differing in points of departure and focal points, come together over a specific concern with the relationship between the languages of dance and music. Both are presented as "situations of investigation" around the body; Study for Tambourine draws from popular tradition and the idea of travelling dance, An Experience of Transmission: BACH explores the possibility that the transfer of a performance does not necessarily mean copying and repeating.

Study for Tambourine

Dates: Saturday, 28 April 2018
Hours: 12 noon and 6pm
Location: Sabatini Building, Floor 3, cloister, and Nouvel Building, terraces
Framework: International Dance Day
Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía
Price: Free, with prior ticket collection from the Museo Ticket Offices from 26 April. Maximum of 2 tickets per person


An Experience of Transmission: BACH

Dates: Saturday, 28 April 2018
Hours: 8pm
Location: Nouvel Building, Auditorium 400
Framework: International Dance Day
Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía
Price: Free, with prior ticket collection from the Museo Ticket Offices from 26 April. Maximum of 2 tickets per person

 

Seminar and screening. Franco Berardi Bifo. Subversion or Barbarism. The End of the World as We Know it

A shot from the film Comunismo futuro (Future Communism, 2017), by Andrea Gropplero and featuring Franco Berardi Bifo

A shot from the film Comunismo futuro (Future Communism, 2017), by Andrea Gropplero and featuring Franco Berardi Bifo

In the second session of the programme Six Contradictions and the End of the Present, the philosopher, writer and media theorist Franco Berardi Bifo will conduct three activities in the Museo: a public lecture, a research workshop and the presentation of the film Comunismo future (2017).

In the activities, Bifo explores new forms of power and domination, characterised by brutality, mass audiences and intangibility, which are imposed so naturally and trivially that their intellectual understanding and political contestation are unattainable.

Dates: 27 and 28 April 2018
Hours and hours: check programme
Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía
Admission lecture and screening: Free, until full capacity is reached
Research workshop: Free, with prior registration atprogramasculturales3@museoreinasofia.es, indicating your reasons for participating. Confirmation required
Workshop capacity: 35 people

 

RRS. Radio del Museo Reina Sofía. Heba Y. Amin. The General's Stork

 

Heba Y. Amin (1980, Cairo) is a visual artist, a lecturer at Bard College Berlin and doctorate fellow in Art History at Freie Universität. Amin’s work is embedded in extensive research and a studio practice that looks at the convergence of politics, technology, and architecture (Heba Y. Amin. Birds Flying, 2016). Working with various media, her work highlights and engages with narratives of national sovereignty, often in contested territories and especially questions methodological assumptions embedded within Western historiography. 

 

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