Listening activities and enhancement of the museum's programming in relation to sound art. The connection of Sempere with composers of his time will be explored, works and proposals from MACA related to sound will be discovered, and the

sound heritage of the surrounding environment will be visited

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante whose collections are formed by works created fundamentally in the twentieth century. They range from the so-called avant-gardes to all the approaches and artistic manifestations that took place in the decades of the second half of the past century. They are expressed on different supports and materials, with diverse dimensions and techniques. In turn, the temporary exhibitions are related to these collections and allow for expanding or deepening some aspects of contemporary chronology. However, contemporary architecture is absent from both the permanent collections and those temporary manifestations.

The architecture of the MACA itself, a project created and directed by the Sancho Madridejos Studio, is a beautiful building of great functional efficiency. The syncopated projection of horizontal and vertical spaces establishes a formal order based on the geometry and texture of the materials used in construction, while revealing a kind of tension resolved by the overhead passage of light, a kind of "felt" spirituality more emotional than real.

The MACA proposes in a conversational format, meetings around art and architecture around the architect's table. In the MACA Library, the last Thursdays of each month, from January to May 2015.

This first cycle will consist of different manifestations. The first and fundamental one will show works by an architect related through his vital and professional activity to the province of Alicante. The selection criterion will be conditioned by the modernity of the proposals, understanding that modernity, first of all, in a chronological sense, attending to those architectures and architects who were protagonists and participants in the advent of contemporaneity. The exhibition of some models will allow for offering three-dimensional models, reclaiming the model as such, as the authors of the Renaissance defended. And to illustrate the complete work process, sketches and preliminary drawings will be shown alongside the project plans and notes developed during the construction process. All of this with the ultimate aim of understanding and grasping in some way the constructed space.

The architect's table, a table from 1912, real and present (deposited in the MACA by its owner Alfonso Navarro Guzmán), serves as an ideological foundation to link the exhibitions and will serve as the material support for the models so that we can traverse, while dreaming, the imagined space.

This project was born with the aim of establishing a connection between contemporary composers dedicated to creating avant-garde art and the public interested in it. Contemporary art faces various challenges—undoubtedly numerous ones—with one of the most recurring being the lack of "understanding" with which the potential audience for contemporary art justifies their disinterest in artistic manifestations.

Contemporary music is not exempt from all these conditions and, at the same time, it is not immune to possible solutions that help normalize current repertoire in the demands of music lovers and integrate it into the cultural programming of cities and concert halls.

Undoubtedly, when a creator speaks about their work with the passion of the creative act and delves not only into their creative processes but also into their motivations and expressive needs, a greater connection with the public is achieved and the path toward acceptance of the work is cleared. It is the project of four saxophonists passionate about their instrument and contemporary music. The members of LUMINA Ensemble combine their efforts for the respectful and committed achievement of high-level musical performances. Lumina refers to the light that continuously permeates our land and shapes us as human beings. Light as a means of union between people who converge in a common project and as a metaphor for our way of understanding musical performance, with proposals through contemporary music.

The ensemble's main objective is the dissemination of repertoire composed from the 21st century onwards. Essential to achieving this goal is collaboration with composers and the premiere of works written for this group, proposing the saxophone quartet as a unique instrument full of timbral and expressive resources at the service of new creation.

Lumina's infinite curiosity about performative action has led them to perform in various concert halls, festivals and concert series both in Spain and in other countries in our region such as the ENSEMS festival (Valencia), the Contemporary Festival of Alicante (ADDA), Kuraia Festival (Bilbao), Contemporary Music Festival (Córdoba), Mostra Sonora (Sueca), International Organ Festival – FIOB (Benidorm), Concerts d´Advent (Alcoi) or their recent participation in the Organistic Festival of Salento (Lecce – Italy), Festival Due Mare (Gallipoli – Italy). They have a first recording titled Terra Lucis, and have participated in Mexican composer Samuel Cedillo's album for the Kairós record label.

Lumina Ensemble is the dedicatee of numerous pieces by renowned authors such as Jesús Torres, Zulema de la Cruz, Eneko Vadillo, Sonia Megías, Oliva Carrión-Arteta, José del Valle, Iluminada Pérez, Ximo Cano, David Leal, Sara Blanco, José Vicente Fuentes Castilla, Diana P. Custodio, M. Eugenia Luc or Voro García.

Lumina Ensemble is composed of: Pablo de la Fuente (soprano saxophone), Javier Carrillos (alto saxophone), Pablo Pardo (tenor saxophone) and José Antonio Suay (baritone saxophone).

Yayoi Kusama covers her paintings with dots. She paints so many polka dots that they end up coming out of her canvases covering the walls, dresses, tables and many more things. She creates magical mirror rooms with shiny balls and glitter. Fausto Gilberti illustrates and captures the vital and artistic journey of one of the most beloved contemporary artists by the public who continues to enchant audiences in museums around the world.

In Splitting (1974), the artist cut a single-family house in half from a typical middle-class American suburb, while in Conical Intersect (1975), this time in Europe, he drilled several concentric circles into the walls of a building that was going to be demolished in the popular Les Halles neighborhood in Paris. Coordinated by Va de cuentos and María Maraña

In her work, always meticulous and repetitive, Yayoi Kusama seeks to reach infinite space and suggests a reflection about the limits we see in the place we inhabit. Are these real or are they imposed by society? Does infinite space really exist?

In this album and in its lyrical narrative, inspired by the language of his autobiography, readers are shown, viewed from many different windows, the experiences of childhood and war that marked the life and art of Marc Chagall. Known for both his dazzling paintings and his colorful stained glass windows, Marc Chagall rose from his humble origins to become one of the most famous artists in the world. Discover the work of Marc Chagall in this wonderful album by the creators of The Sound of Colors, winner of the Caldecott Honor award.

We will create some paper contraptions to set in motion the lovers characters from Chagall's paintings, whom he constantly depicted floating or flying over the city.

Louise Bourgeois's mother, like spiders, dedicated her life to weaving beautiful tapestries. This is the story of how the young Louise, an apprentice weaver, became an artist and sculpted an enormous ten-meter spider called "Maman." A beautiful tale that captures the special and unbreakable relationship between a mother and a daughter. One of the most beautiful and exquisite books of the year. The story of the young sculptor Louise Bourgeois told to sensitive children and restless adults.

Olga Diego, artist.

The MACA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante is carrying out The Afternoon Snack. A mediation project aimed at elderly people, which was born at the MACA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante in 2021, with the collaboration of the Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community, coordinated by Juan Diego Cerdá.

As a result of these meetings, the Group proposes the creation of a platform to give visibility to artists who live in Alicante. This pilot project at the MACA, titled Visibility: an open window to the local creator, aims to make known different Alicante creators, deepen and expand knowledge about contemporary art and learn to look at the collections housed in the MACA from another perspective.

Visibility: an open window to the local creator will materialize with a series of sessions in which an artist will be invited to present their artistic trajectory, sharing their artistic concerns and reflections, the development of their creative process, their techniques, etc.

The Afternoon Snack is an original project by Alba Cacheda.

During the first stage of childhood, knowledge of the world and of oneself is acquired through the experience provided by the senses.

For this reason, it is fundamental that we provide stimulation for each of the senses individually, but also together, since they are not isolated from one another.

These laboratories are a field of learning and discovery and an opportunity to showcase high-quality books both for what they tell and for how they tell it. From 5 to 12 years old.

With the support of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Universities and Employment

In collaboration with: Provincial Council of Alicante