The exhibition titled Out of Series. Serigraphs from Ibero-Suiza in the UPV Collection, produced by the Universitat Politècnica de València, the Consortium of Museums of the Generalitat Valenciana and the City Council of Alicante and curated by Antonio Alcaraz opens on January 21, 2014.
Serigraphs from Ibero-Suiza
The Ibero-Suiza serigraph workshop was founded in Valencia in 1963, and with the incorporation of José Llopis Dasí, the workshop specialized in the production of graphic work. They relocated to work in their Liria workshops, becoming in the seventies one of the most complete serigraphic workshops dedicated to artistic printing in Spain.
In 1964 they came into contact with Toledo, Valdés and Solbes (Equipo Crónica) establishing a fluid relationship. Both Equipo Crónica, and later Equipo Realidad, installed their studios at some point in the same space occupied by Ibero-Suiza. This relationship of closeness and friendship, combined with political affinity with the artists, meant that collaborations were continuous.
In 1972 the "Compositions" portfolio by Equipo Crónica was created, published by Gustavo Gili for La Cometa editions. This series was the most important they had produced up to that date and from that moment on the demand for artistic serigraphs increased until it constituted 80% of the company's production, whose workshops moved to Liria in 1973 while maintaining a commercial office in Valencia. That same year Paco López joined the company, directing it together with Ignacio Llopis, from the death of José Llopis in 1982, until its closure in 1998.
The extensive list of authors served by Ibero-Suiza is surprising. Fundamental names in the history of Spanish art in the second half of the twentieth century, from Renau and Tàpies, to Saura and Equipo Crónica, passing through Chillida, Arroyo, Torner, Zóbel, Sempere, Yturralde, Teixidor and Equipo Realidad, all passed through these workshops that exercised such importance in the consolidation and dissemination of an art linked to the abstract proposals of the time and to the most politically committed positions existing in that era.
The recent acquisition by the Universitat Politècnica de València of a large number of prints composed of workshop and artist proofs, as well as works that completed the commercial edition, constitutes the axis of this exhibition. It includes a significant part of the collection that, from now on, completes the graphic work holdings that our University has been accumulating since the creation several decades ago of the Fons d´Art, a notable heritage collection that, through works such as those now being exhibited, is enriching its value and importance.
Exhibition
From the late 1960s until the 1990s, the main Spanish artists worked with Ibero-Suiza. Eusebio Sempere was the first of them to discover this technique. The artists, with a clear anti-Franco commitment, used serigraph as a means to disseminate both their ideological concerns and their art.
For decades, the family of José Llopis has preserved part of the printed material, from prints dedicated to numbered and signed proofs, posters, workshop proofs, color proofs and incomplete prints that were left out of the edition. Material that today allows us to understand the creative process of the artists and the workshop technicians and that is of great interest to specialists and researchers in the field of contemporary graphic work.
The exhibition, which can be visited until March 2 in the temporary exhibition room, is composed of 46 pieces, two of them from the MACA. 44 serigraphs and 1 original work. In addition to documentary material, letters, drawings, screens, photographs....and a selection of posters also printed in serigraph.

The exhibition titled Palazuelo. Musical Calligraphies is a co-production of the MACA in collaboration with the CEART, Tomás y Valiente Art Center of Fuenlabrada with the participation of the Provincial Council of Alicante and the invaluable contribution of the Palazuelo Foundation. The exhibition opens on September 13 at 7:00 p.m. at the MACA and can be seen in the temporary exhibitions room until December 8, 2013.
This exhibition, curated by Rosa Castells and Alicia Ventura, titled Palazuelo. Musical Calligraphies aims to approach the artist's work from its relationship with music, exploring the intimate relationship that exists between his work, sound and silence. A relationship that is discovered from the earliest works created in Paris, some as evident as those written On the Staff or the sets of signs arranged in moving drawings as Forgotten Things. Also in his later compositions, rhythm, tempo, fugue, intensity, chords, timbre or tone are essential matters… The point and the line become signs of a form of musical notation, a calligraphy that can be understood as a code and language of a primordial sound, of that music that is at the origin, that is vibration, energy that flows filling and coagulating all the spaces of the world.

The exhibition, which can be seen until September 8th, is made up of a carefully selected collection of works belonging to DKV Seguros and the Caja Mediterráneo Collection.

The exhibition was inaugurated by Miguel Valor, Deputy Mayor of Culture and the Chief Executive Officer of DKV Seguros, Josep Santacreu, the advisor of the DKV Arteria Project and co-curator Alicia Ventura, the director of the DKV branch in Alicante and Rosa Mª Castells, curator of the MACA and also curator of the exhibition.

As a result of the extraordinary relationships fostered by the Alicante City Council with companies that have committed unreservedly to art and collecting, this exhibition emerges, bringing together important pieces from two of the most interesting contemporary art collections in this country. The exhibition provides a vision of the diversity of aesthetic languages in the artistic landscape and allows for a contrast between two collections that differ from each other in the nature of their ownership, their selection criteria and their geographic and temporal scope, but with evident connections between them.


symbolic and monumental spaces but also lived spaces that sometimes evoke a forgotten past, a memory that brings the trace that remains alive. Dignified architecture that constructs a narrative landscape between representation and illusion. Universes of fiction of extraordinary beauty and evocative power. Self-absorbed figures in a moment before chaos resolved in unstable equilibrium, where the vulnerable or the fragile by its lightness, breaks.

Artists such as Jose Mª Ballester, Bleda and Rosa, Hannah Collins, Dionisio González, Gonzalo Puch, Jaime de la Jara, Santiago Sierra or Valentín Vallhonrat reconstruct spaces traversed by weightlessness, light or color, with Carlos Irijalba, Ignacio Llamas, Ana Malagrida, Martín Freire, Rebeca Menéndez, Natalia Pastor, Aleix Plademunt, Pamen Pereira or Cecilia del Val.

More information in the full note

The MACA of Alicante presents on April 19 Ideas K, a retrospective exhibition of the artist based in Salamanca Fernando Sinaga, curated by Gloria Moure. The exhibition brings together, through more than forty works in various expressive media, the underlying imagery in Sinaga's work throughout much of his creative period, from 1984 to the present.
The exhibition has been made possible thanks to the production effort carried out by the MUSAC, Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla and León and the collaboration of Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) which has published the exhibition catalog. Likewise, it is necessary to highlight the special collaboration of the Consortium of Museums of the Generalitat Valenciana and the Excma. Provincial Council of Alicante, without which this exhibition would not have been possible.
Other collaborations have joined the organization of the exhibition, thus allowing its celebration. This is the case of the personal work of Begoña Martínez of the Aural Gallery as well as Edijar, Hostal Les Monjes, Dársena Restaurant and Don Carlos Restaurant. More information in the full note.

The new temporary exhibition Silent Genealogies. Caja Mediterráneo Collection opens at MACA, Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante on Thursday, September 13 at 8 p.m. and will run until January 6, 2013. "Silent Genealogies" brings together a series of works by different artists that share a common creative process. A fragmented process, made in pieces, often asymmetrical and that reveals the structure of the work, always with an uncomfortable sense of nakedness or lack of protection. José Ramón Amondarain, Isidro Blasco, Txomín Badiola, Pello Irazu, Miquel Mont, Manu Muniategiandikoetxea and Daniel Verbis make up the selection of artists. A generation concerned with problems of space, volume and representation, united by an invisible thread of familiarity. Artists who, without establishing formal kinship in the manner of masters or disciples, seem to have certainly been looking at and looking at each other until forming a group that has renewed all pictorial and sculptural languages.
More information in the complete note.

The exhibition titled Art in Airports. AENA Contemporary Art Collection opens on April 25 at 7:30 p.m. at the MACA and can be seen in the temporary exhibitions room until July 8, open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (Tuesday to Saturday) and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Sundays and public holidays). Closed Mondays.

Opening
On behalf of the Alicante City Council, attending the event are Sonia Castedo Ramos, Mayor of Alicante, and Miguel Valor, Councilor for Culture.
On behalf of AENA, Teresa Díaz Caneja, Director of the AENA Foundation, Marcos Curator of the Exhibition and Director of Conservation and Cultural Projects of the AENA Foundation, and Santiago Martínez-Cava Arenas, Director of Alicante Airport.

AENA Contemporary Art Collection
This collection began to be formed more than 30 years ago by the organizations that preceded AENA in making decisions about investments in aeronautical infrastructure.
Most of the paintings, sculptures, murals and graphic works that make up the Collection correspond, with some important exceptions, to the most recent Spanish and Ibero-American artistic production where the most significant trends of contemporary art are represented.
It is a collection consisting of 1,600 works corresponding to an extensive group of artists representing several generations, from Eusebio Sempere himself, through Arroyo, Barceló, Barjola, Broto, Canogar, Óscar Domínguez, Genovés, Gordillo, Guinovart, Carmen Laffón, Roberto Matta, Murado, Gerardo Rueda, Soledad Sevilla, Sicilia, Tàpies, Dario Urzay, Úrculo, Uslé, Zóbel, Ibarrola, Palazuelo, Miquel Navarro, Jaume Plensa and Torner.

Exhibition
The selection shown at the MACA corresponds to an excellent generation of artists representing the best of Spanish art from the last quarter of the 20th century. Already classic names of contemporary aesthetics such as: Eduardo Arroyo, Miquel Barceló, José Manuel Brotó, Luis Gordillo, Cristina Iglesias, Miquel Navarro, Pablo Palazuelo, Soledad Sevilla, José María Sicilia, Daria Urzay, Juan Uslé, Xesús Vázquez and Dario Villalba.
The selected works stand out for their contemporaneity and expressive force and provoke an intense emotional impact on the viewer.
Artists and Works


Eduardo Arroyo, (Madrid 1937)
The Archangel Saint Gabriel, 1995
Oil on canvas
300 x 350 cm

Miquel Barceló, (Andratx, Balearic Islands, 1957)
Table with Octopus and Squid, 1991
Mixed media on canvas
235 x 285 cm

José Manuel Broto, (Zaragoza, 1949)
Machine, 1998
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 200 cm

Luis Gordillo, (Seville, 1934)
Crown of Thorns-cas, 1996
Acrylic on canvas
214 x 388 cm

Cristina Iglesias, (San Sebastián, 1956)
Untitled Polyptych Three, 2000
Silkscreen on copper
200 x 400 cm

Miquel Navarro, (Mislata, Valencia, 1945)
Moon Crossed, 1995
Cast iron
297 x 100 x 49 cm
Pablo Palazuelo, (Madrid, 1915)
Of Dreams N.T.R XIII, 1999
Oil on canvas
235 x 174 cm

Pablo Palazuelo, (Madrid, 1915)
Lauda I, 1981
Corten steel
200 x 140 x 180 cm

Soledad Sevilla, (Valencia, 1944)
Sica, 1997
Oil on canvas
200 x 400 cm

José María Sicilia, (Madrid, 1954)
L´horabaixa-paravent, 1997
Oil, paper and wax on wood
252 x 870 cm

Dario Urzay, (Bilbao, 1958)
Moving Field, 2003
Mixed media on wood
180 x 300 cm

Juan Uslé, (Santander, 1954)
One Way Trip, 2003
Acrylic, pigments and dispersion on canvas
153 x 255 cm

Xesús Vázquez, (Pentes, Ourense, 1946)
Mars Latour, 1992
Mixed media on silk
235 x 250 cm

Dario Villalba, (San Sebastian, 1939)
Red Branches I, 1975-1993
Oil and photolinen on canvas
200 x 160 cm

Dario Villalba, (San Sebastian, 1939)
Red Branches II, 1975-1993
Oil and photolinen on canvas
200 x 160 cm
Catalog.
On the occasion of the exhibition, a catalog has been published by the AENA Foundation, coordinated by the Museum of Contemporary Art and the AENA Foundation and directed by Teresa Díaz-Caneja.
Educational Services
The MACA provides a service of guided visits for groups to both the permanent collections and the temporary exhibition on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays by prior reservation by calling 965.213.156 or by email educacion@maca-alicante.es
Library and Documentation Center
The museum has a library with more than 7,000 titles where references to the artists shown in the exhibition Art in Airports. AENA Contemporary Art Collection can be consulted, which can be accessed from Tuesday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. For any inquiries biblioteca@maca-alicante.es
Press and Communications.
For any inquiries about the exhibition or requests for images, you can visit the museum's website www.maca-alicante.es, write to the email comunicacion@maca-alicante.es or contact by phone 965.213.156.

The first exhibition of the MACA's own production has become the last one held on the Catalan artist before his death. The MACA, the Culture Department, and the exhibition curator Alicia Ventura deeply regret the loss of the universal creator Antoni Tàpies. In his works prevails the truth of true works and the energy that permeates his works, growing in matter and spirit. For the Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante it is a satisfaction to be able to display his works in this exhibition, which now serves as a tribute, and thus recognize the true dimension of a universal artist allowing all those who approach the museum to know the greatness of one of the most important and significant artists of the 20th century.
More information in the complete note.

The
exhibition Sensitive Planes. Abstract Painting from the Contemporary Art Collection of the "la Caixa" Foundation can be seen at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante until January 8, 2012.
This exhibition is part of
the commitment of the Social Work "la Caixa" to showcase its
contemporary art collection both in the
CaixaForum centers and in numerous exhibitions in
Spanish cities and around the world, including in
Beijing, Warsaw, Bucharest and Lisbon, where in recent
years various exhibitions have been organized.
The works that can be seen at the MACA in Alicante,
including those by artists such as Robert Ryman, Agnes
Martin, Alan Charlton and Ettore Spalletti, are the result
of the refinement of painting and the ambition to create authentically
real art; therefore, their works avoid metaphors and symbolism, and have
shed everything that is not specifically physical. More information in the full note.

The aforementioned exhibition is conceived as a tour through the trends in which the most representative Valencian artists of that period moved. To this end, it has been based on four tendencies (one that served as a link with what came before, already existing in the museum; another called new figuration, or chronicle of reality, the third that could be encompassed in a certain lyrical or non-geometric abstraction, and a fourth tendency reflecting a group concerned with issues of structuralism and geometric abstraction represented by Eusebio Sempere). More information in the complete note.

The exhibition organized by the Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community in collaboration with the Chirivella Soriano Foundation can be visited until June 5th. According to the words of the exhibition curator Joan Robledo, the exhibition "is an approach to the work of various artists who, in the Spanish sphere from the end of the post-war period to the present day, have approached plastic creation from monochromatic works in white or black to the construction of a space that is articulated around opposite or complementary dualities". It is therefore an attempt to see this duality from a point of view that has been overlooked until now. Or in other words, to see beyond the properties of the positive-negative, light and darkness, which have been attributed to it so far. More information in the full note.