Xarxa de Museus d’Art bets on opening a space with online curatorships in order to offer new ways of dissemination of the museums’ collections that belong to it. Depending on each curator, this space will allow the construction of really diverse accounts and appear multiple adaptations from the whole collections. Now it will also disseminate the meaning and the value of the Catalonian joint art collection
Queer Aesthetics and Dissidences in the Museums of the XMAC is an exhibition about how art echoes so many ways of feeling and being, in a journey that celebrates the affective and sexual diversity of human nature, inviting us to see ourselves mirrored in our museums
The exhibition is intended as an evocation of “pre-pandemic” social interaction under different forms of occupation of space. The festival as ritual, subversion and identity cohesion, the street in its most ludic or vindicative dimension, the diner as a space-time of coexistence, the “being in relation”…. . Will we do it again? Will we be again?
Journey through the collection of La Xarxa de Museus d’Art de Catalunya with the aim -following the spirit of Proust’s quote- of looking at the world through the eyes (of the works) of the artists: see what they saw and feel what they felt in the hope of expanding our perception of the universe through their gaze.
The 22 museums of the XMAC show us works from all periods and styles, from medieval frescoes to comics, through Renaissance and Baroque mythology, romantic landscaping, popular engraving or conceptual installation. There are more ways to die than to be born.
Confined Eyes stages an emergency situation with the depositary archives of the museums. It answers a series of questions that I intuitively asked myself on the first month of confinement for Covid-19. The attempt to put images of what happened, with the hope placed in the works that have materialized during this period.
Women and men in the Middle Ages were fascinated by exotic objects. Trade routes favored the arrival of Byzantine icons, metalwork, goldsmithing, sculptures and paintings. Today, the XMAC museums present some of these remote earth treasures preserved in their collections.
It’s not true that women haven’t self-portrayed themselves. While they have been presented mostly as objects and rarely as subjects, when they have been placed in the place of creation, the question for the self has been one of their priorities, as this exhibition seeks to show.
A visual rhapsody is a walk through some thirty works from the XMAC museums, which combines music and visual arts. In an eclectic and timeless journey and a structure close to a rhapsody, you will find angels, musicians, dancers, silences and harmonies hidden in the forms.