García-Alix, carte blanche on the CAAC photographic collections

The Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art (CAAC) offers the photographer Alberto García-Alix a carte blanche to review the extensive the photographic holdings owned by this institution, dependent on the Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Government of Andalusia. The result is an exhibition titled Diversity in the CAAC Collection. The photographic view of Alberto García-Alix, where the photographer highlights the richness and diversity of this collection.

To develop this curatorial work, Alberto García-Alix has carried out an in-depth and analytical review of the CAAC’s photographic collections, exploring nearly 1,450 works, mostly coming from purchases and donations from artists who have previously exhibited at the museum. García-Alix dedicated months of study “to discover, classify and approach recurring themes throughout the collection: behavioral art and social images of the body, the social construction of the landscape, archival practices, memory and politics, photomontages, appropriationism, AFAL, among others.” His premise in this curatorial journey, where there has been “a constant challenge of how to fuse such disparate perspectives,” has been to “create a visual and chromatic vibration of the collection.”

The exhibition, made up of some 250 works, is a reflection of the variety of visual proposals that characterizes the CAAC collection. “Each work in the collection challenges me and has required careful reading. I must understand its message and its context,” says the curator Alberto García-Alix. The selected authors are completely different from each other, although complementary: Cristina García Rodero, María Cañas, Pierre Gonnord, Agustín Parejo School, Ana Mendieta, Lotty Rosenfeld, Rogelio López Cuenca, Nan Goldin, Valie Export, Carrie Mae Weems or the AFAL collective, among many others.

Among the works on display, for the first time at the CAAC, you can see ten photomontages by Antonio Gálvez, created between 1976-1979, called Antonio Gálvez and the decomposition of myths. “The collection is a mirror where we can look at ourselves in the multiple facets of our life and society. We see the metropolis, the politics, the social landscape and the human. There is inclusion and tolerance, radicality and feminism,” García-Alix highlights.

“Alberto has faced the challenge of opening the lens to capture diversity and establish a coherent energy that nourishes and mixes the pieces of the exhibition. […], with this carte blanche, he has judged worlds, actions and plasticities, ordering, measuring and adjusting elements to give this selection its own identity,” says Jimena Blázquez Abascal, director of the Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art.

The exhibition can be visited in the North Claustron of the CAAC from September 20th, 2024 to May 25th, 2025.

More information at Andalusian Center of Contemporary Art.

Access the curatorial text here.

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