Bruno Munari was one of the most original protagonists of Italian art, graphics, and design in the twentieth century. He dedicates his creative activity to experimentation in all its forms, ranging from painting, sculpture, design, photography, and teaching.
The workshops were held during the four weeks of July, from the 4th to the 29th; 4 weeks in which a series of experimentations were carried out around a common theme related to the temporary exhibition Bruno Munari. Experimenting, playing, and learning with different materials and techniques to understand art and the mechanisms of visual communication.
Week 1: July 4th to 8th. PLAYING WITH TIME.
Week 2: July 11th to 15th. PLAYING WITH SPACE.
Week 3: July 18th to 22nd. PLAYING WITH FORM.
Week 4: July 25th to 29th. PLAYING WITH THE WORLD.
MACALaboratorium. A fun Experimentation Laboratory in which Art is the vehicle for learning, enjoying and creating. It arises from the need to provide children, after this difficult stage, spaces where they can recover contact with culture, which has proven to be more necessary than ever as a tool to open windows to the world.
MACALaboratorium is a proposal of sensory artistic challenges that took place during the four weeks of July, from the 5th to the 30th; 4 weeks in which a series of experimentations were carried out around a common theme related to the museum's collections and exhibitions
A window to think about nature, about time, about who we are and about the very pleasure of thinking… for all this we use the artworks from the collections and temporary exhibition, which we approach in a playful, exciting and respectful way.
Week 1: July 5-9. MACA LAB 0.1 Colors as raw material, as emotion, as light and darkness… and how they work with artworks.
Week 2: July 12-16. MACA LAB 0.2 Light to transform space. Lights and shadows.
Week 3: July 19-23. MACA LAB 0.3 Everyday artistic languages: advertising, customs and popular heroes.
Week 4: July 26-30. MACA LAB 0.4 The world of geometry.
IN MOTION AND EXCITING. This year a Summer Classroom in motion has been planned. It will take place from July 1st to 26th and we are reaching the limit of enrolled children. It is an adventure around the world of geometry, movement, light, color and the emotions they provoke in us. The program is structured in 4 thematic weeks. In each one of them a series of experiences are carried out around a common theme, always linked to the different collections and the temporary exhibition of the Maca. Geometry, Movement, Light and Color.
Week 1: July 1st to 5th. A universe of shapes. We explore the world based on geometric shapes.
Week 2: July 8th to 12th. We begin to move. Movement is the protagonist.
Week 3: July 8th to 12th. Light experiences. Light as an aesthetic and expressive element.
Week 4: July 22nd to 26th. Through color. Chromatic expedition.
"Color is a power which directly influences the soul." Wassily Kandinsky. Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 1911.
FOUR-COLOR PRINTING AT THE MACA is an adventure for the summer, a journey of initiation, it is a 4-week expedition around the world of color and the emotions it provokes in us.
In this chromatic expedition we experiment with color as a means of expressing feelings and concerns, as a technique for creation and innovation, as play, as learning.
The color of emotions. The color of art. Light and darkness. Warm colors. Cool ones. Separating colors, combining them. 4 weeks experimenting with cyan, magenta, yellow and black.
We discover color in the works housed in the museum's collections and how it has been used by different artistic movements from the 20th century to the present day.
As artists, we create our own works based on everything that colors transmit and suggest to us: smells, tastes, sounds or textures. And all of this in a motivating, participatory context, fostering a new, critical perspective that inspires children and helps them develop their creative thinking.
"All children are born artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." Pablo Picasso
Once again this year, MACA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante,
launches a new edition of the SUMMER AT MACA 2017 Workshops.
This year with the title L'ÉCOLE DEL MACA
As every July, we propose "summer workshops" inspired by Contemporary Art, with the aim of promoting Creativity and Expressivity, based on a perspective that is at the same time educational and recreational.
Summer at MACA: L'ÉCOLE DEL MACA seeks the development of
imagination and artistic initiative of the participants, as well as the
improvement of communication skills in different forms of
expression. In this way and at the same time, we want to enhance
aesthetic sensitivity and appreciation of artistic manifestations and contemporary cultural heritage.
MACA wants to transform itself into an Artistic Creation Center as Milan, Paris, Berlin and New York were, where different ISMS or artistic movements as important as Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism, Expressionism and a long etcetera were born...
This year participants will be able to form their avant-garde artistic
movement according to their interests, create their own manifesto and
of course their Works of Art.
Do you know what an ISM is? And an artistic manifesto?
Manifesto: a written statement of an artistic movement to express or
defend a program considered revolutionary or innovative with
respect to what is established.
We become avant-garde artists to create, imagine, express and invent a different art.
Week 1: July 3-7: MANIFESTO 1 Innovation, Rupture, Word, Group...
Week 2: July 10-14: MANIFESTO 2 Revolution, Commitment, Concerns, Knowledge...
Week 3: July 17-21: MANIFESTO 3 Style, Expression, Leaders, Technology...
Week 4: July 24-28: MANIFESTO 4 Experimentation, Change, School, Belonging...
As we do every July, we propose a cycle of "summer workshops" inspired by Contemporary Art, with the aim of promoting Creativity and Expressivity, based on a perspective that is at the same time educational and playful.
Summer at MACA: AND COLE- COLLECTION... seeks to develop the imagination and artistic initiative of participants, as well as improve communication skills in different forms of expression. In this way and at the same time, we want to enhance aesthetic sensitivity and appreciation of artistic manifestations and cultural heritage. Through a tour of the practical and aesthetic aspects of the authors and works exhibited at MACA, participants will be able to learn about Contemporary Art issues through their own experimentation.
Have you ever collected anything? Why? Do you know how a collection is built and what we need for it?
A collection is a set of things, generally of the same class and arranged in an orderly manner.
Week 1: July 4 to 8: COLLECTION 1 Curiosities, exotic objects, uncommon, unique...
Week 2: July 11 to 15: COLLECTION 2 Searches, explorations, travels, encounters, experiences, lived experiences...
Week 3: July 18 to 22: COLLECTION 3 Emotions, imagination, investigations, perceptions...
Week 4: July 25 to 29: COLLECTION 4 Ideas, words, messages, symbols, codes...
Summer has arrived! The Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante is launching a new edition of Workshops.
"Summer at the MACA: PARIS-CUENCA-NEW YORK-MADRID" seeks to develop the imagination and artistic initiative of participants, as well as improve communication skills in different forms of expression. We will take a journey, the journey that Eusebio Sempere undertook until returning to Alicante and making the donation of his collection.
We will visit the main cities that developed 20th century art. Cities where he had the opportunity to live and meet artists who were pioneering a new vision in art. Paris meant his inclusion in the realm of artistic modernity, where he was able to contemplate the works of the artists he most admired such as Matisse, Modigliani, Klee, and others; he established contact with a group of young artists like Vasarely, Agam.
In Cuenca, thanks to his friendship with Fernando Zóbel, Sempere gets to know the city, a place where a "concentration" of painters was beginning to take place: Gustavo Torner, Gerardo Rueda, Millares, Guerrero…
New York brings new elements and greater theoretical and practical freedom to his painting; he had the opportunity to contemplate the great masters of modern painting, which are very well represented there in the museums.
In Madrid his work follows a luminous investigation using new materials and supports and his color range becomes more Spanish.
Each week we will visit a city discovering the avant-gardes in Paris, abstraction in Cuenca, Pop in New York and the Movida in Madrid.
Week 1: from June 29 to July 3: PARIS AND THE ROARING TWENTIES
Week 2: from July 6 to 10: CUENCA AND LYRICAL ABSTRACTION
Summer has arrived! Once again, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante is launching a new edition of Workshops inspired by Contemporary Art, with the aim of promoting Creativity and Expressivity, based on a perspective that is at the same time educational and recreational. "Summer at the MACA: Constellations" seeks to develop the imagination and artistic initiative of participants, as well as improve communication skills in different forms of expression. In this way and at the same time, we want to enhance aesthetic sensitivity and appreciation of artistic manifestations and Cultural Heritage. Through a tour of the practical and aesthetic aspects of the authors and works exhibited at the MACA, participants will be able to learn about issues related to Contemporary Art through their own experimentation. Thus, throughout the summer school, we will carry out a series of activities designed to show the key issues of the techniques and principles that give rise to each artistic movement represented in the Museum.
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante has launched the second edition of the Summer Workshops at the Maca. Punto.Línea/Forma{COLOR some "summer workshops" different, where art is the main objective. During the weeks that the summer workshops last, one of the main objectives is to promote active participation and group work. These activities aim to bring participants closer to the Museum's Collections through their personal experience, thanks to languages such as painting, dance, theater, music and cinema
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante is launching its first Summer Workshops "In the Shadow of Art. Summer at the Maca" for children between 5 and 11 years old. We propose "summer workshops" that are different, where art is their main objective.
We will awaken curiosity among children through observation, experimentation and imagination through art. We will carry out various activities and workshops linked to art and its techniques. And we will encourage children to establish a dialogue with their artistic creations.
All didactic activities are designed to deepen knowledge of art and culture, promote participation and group work among children.
The development of the activities proposed in these workshops is accompanied by the screening of educational films, games, special visits, optical animations, group activities, etc.…
Week 1. July 2-6. AN ARTIST IN THE LIBRARY
Week 2. July 9-13. A MUSEUM IN MOTION
Week 3. July 16-20. DISCOVER GESTURE AND MATERIALS
