The Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) bids farewell to the exhibition “An Indefinitely Fluid Common Continuum” with various activities, including a guided tour of the Museum of Prehistory from Valencia.
This will bring to an end an exhibition which closes on October 13 and reflects on questions such as: When is a work of art contemporary? What is the function of a museum? o What role do artists play?
To say goodbye to the exhibition, the IVAM invites the public to participate this Saturday October 5, at 6:00 p.m., in a dialogue between contemporary art and archaeology, through a guided tour which will begin in the room which houses the exhibition. A common continuum indefinitely smooth in the Julio González Center and will end at the Museum of Prehistory of Valencia to search for echoes and links with some of its pieces.
The archaeologist Your Vizcaino will be responsible for accompanying participants on this walk entitled “Beyond the rooms”. Decenter the object’, and which offers a reflection on time and its non-linearity, on the conceptual links between artistic and archaeological practice, based on a selection of works from the two museums.
Furthermore, on Saturday October 5, at 5:30 p.m., the IVAM is also offering a noise, echo and movement tour of the exhibition “An indefinitely fluid common continuum” for families. “A living museum” is a proposal by Laura Ramírez who invites you to discover the sound world that inhabits works of art, often hidden, but present.
A common continuum
The exhibition, curated by Diana Guijarro, studies the meanings of contemporary through 135 works, mostly from the museum’s collection, with names such as Claude Cahun, Grete Stern, Julio González, Marcel Proust, Sanja Iveković, Dan Graham, Sigmar Polke, André. Derain, Barbara Ess, Jacques Lipchitz or Gerhard Richter.
Among all these parts, they are generated new connections and interpretations and reflects on questions such as the concept of contemporary, the role of museums and artists or absences in art collections.
Divided into five sections, the exhibition’s preamble is a work by Dan Graham entitled “Rock my religion.” Next, the exhibition reflects on the nature of the museum institution in the first section entitled “When something is missing, when something is not there”, through a sculpture of a medieval knight by the artist Olaf Breuning in dialogue with works by André Masson. or John Heartfield.
The exhibition continues by addressing the type of model of the artist and the artistic movements throughout history, where we can see the sculptures of Julio González which coexist with the heads of André Derain and the figures of John Davies, or a bust by Markus Lüpertz which connects with pieces by Jacques Lipchitz and Pablo Picasso, among others.
The last room, as an epilogue, brings together pieces by artists such as George Baselitz, Käte Steinitz and Gerhard Richter around a totem by the artist Marc Bijl made up of 22 speakers which deliver the speeches of different men politicians of the 20th century, from Fidel Castro to Reagan, including Bin Laden, Malcom X and Hitler himself.
On the occasion of the exhibition, the IVAM published a catalog, available at the museum bookstore, which includes the curatorial texts and photographs of the works.
