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FROM MIRÓ TO BARCELÓ. A CENTURY OF SPANISH ART

12/03/2020 – 28/02/2022

Cubism, surrealism, figuration and abstraction; painting, sculpture, film and video; in the history of 20th and 21st century art, not a single period or field has not been led by Spanish artists. Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí or Luis Buñuel advocated for new ways of seeing and creating that remain strong influences today. This chronological pathway through a century of Spanish art reveals how the current generation of artists has kept alive the spirit of the avant-garde with extraordinary energy. Their predecessors lived through troubling times, Parisian exile, the war, and ostracism which fuelled a repertoire of moving, radical and even sacrilegious images.

Once freedom is restored, their heirs, such as Miquel Barceló, Cristina Iglesias, and La Ribot, among others, keep on surprising us by inventing new approaches to painting, sculpture and space which re-enchant the materials, rituals and myths of Spanish art.

HORS PISTES 5TH EDITION.
THE ECHOLOGY OF IMAGES

02/12/2021 – 17/01/2022

In accounts of early 20th century conquests, nature was a hostile entity that had to be dominated. Nowadays, the paradigm has been reversed: ecological considerations are an integral part of our culture, urging us to protect nature from humanity and its greed.

Today’s images are a little like the Lumière brothers’ train: bombarding through network channels from all sides and inundating the many screens that surround us. This is the age of the instantaneous image that invades our physical and mental space. We are witnessing a sort of “biology of images”: continually exchanged, duplicated, edited, subverted, they form an endless flow. These energy-consuming images contribute to global warming.

How can we envisage digital moderation in the context of the current emergency? Can we imagine ecological actions in the face of this flow of images?

Based on these questions, Hors Pistes has invited guest artists from the French and Spanish scenes, whose works are displayed in the interstitial spaces of the Centre Pompidou Málaga.

SOPHIE CALLE

19/11/2021 – 17/04/2022

The Centre Pompidou Málaga is showcasing almost forty years of creation by French artista Sophie Calle, born in Paris and based in Malakoff, with an original exhibition that reviews some of her favourite themes: love relationships, absence and loss.

The exhibition opens with the series entitled Le Mari (The Husband, 1995) which recounts Sophie Calle’s relationship with her ex-partner, Greg Shephard, with whom she made the film No Sex Last Night, a diary of their trip across the United States in 1992. The film is projected in the Auditorium.

L’Hôtel (The Hotel, 1981-1983) presents another side of Sophie Calle as she slips into the skin of a chambermaid and reveals the private lives of strangers without their knowledge. With the series entitled Douleur exquise (Exquisite Pain, 1984-2003), the artist returns to a difficult romantic break-up she experienced in 1984, which she compares with accounts of suffering by anonymous people.

The visit concludes with Souris Calle (2018), one of her latest works, presented in Spain for the first time. The artist uses video and a music album to relate the loss of her cat Souris (that is translated as Mouse and Smile) and the void created by its absence.