For the seventh consecutive year, a total of 55 museums and art centers will share on April 23rd next, on the occasion of International Book Day, a bookcrossing experience or book release campaign, with the aim of flooding cities with volumes from the duplicate collection of their respective libraries. Participants have planned to put into circulation more than 2,000 free books with the intention that those who collect them enjoy their reading and release them again at another different point in the world. All released books will be accredited with their corresponding labels, will contain the necessary instructions to facilitate the reader's participation in the campaign and will be registered on the website www.bookcrossing-spain.com, where readers will be able to indicate the place where they will release each copy. The objective of this initiative is to add the libraries of the museums to the effort to promote reading and, more specifically, to the dissemination of knowledge of the different cultural disciplines.

The MACA will participate for the fourth consecutive year in this interesting international proposal.

As we have done in other years, during tomorrow's event, commemorating Book Day, the Museum will give a maximum of two copies of some of our books to anyone who wishes.

The Valencian Community has 3 other participating centers, with only MACA in the province of Alicante.

On April 23, 47 museum libraries and art and culture centers will flood cities with books on the occasion of International Book Day.

These centers join in a bookcrossing experience in which more than 2,500 volumes related to different disciplines were released.

For the sixth consecutive year, a total of 47 museums and art centers shared on April 23, on the occasion of International Book Day, a bookcrossing experience or book release campaign, with the aim of flooding cities with volumes from the duplicate collection of their respective libraries. Participants planned to put into circulation more than 2,500 free books with the intention that those who collect them enjoy reading them and release them again at another point in the world. All released books are accredited with their respective labels, contain the necessary instructions to facilitate the reader's participation in the campaign and will be registered on the website www.bookcrossing-spain.com, where readers can indicate the place where they will release each copy. The objective of this initiative is to add museum libraries to the effort to promote reading, and more specifically, to disseminate knowledge of the different cultural disciplines.

Since its international appearance in 2001, bookcrossing has only multiplied the number of participants in this type of initiative. Parallel to bookcrossing and as happened last year, MACA will set up a free book delivery point for all visitors who wish to do so.

From Tuesday afternoon the 22nd and until supplies run out, each visitor will be able to take a maximum of two books per person free of charge.

The books that will be given away are part of the museum's bibliographic collections and are mainly made up of catalogs from past exhibitions.

On April 21st, coordinated by the Artium in Vitoria, numerous libraries of museums and art and culture centers will share their publications on the occasion of the celebration of International Book Day, and they will do so through the bookcrossing experience or book release campaign.

Each participating center has selected one or several publications that are part of its collection and, with all of them, a video has been prepared that we share in this campaign to promote reading and the dissemination of contemporary culture.

The MACA will also leave a counter full of publications on the ground floor of the museum that visitors can take home.

Happy Book Day.

Undo time. Prowl through instability in wandering and diffuse forms, in a strange state of euphoria that slowly gives way to exhaustion.

​Kind is an open and durational body practice; a journey toward constant creation, which is built through a succession of spontaneous actions. It is a being in the body and the environment from attentive, sensitive and sharp listening. There is nothing written, no score or pre-existing code; the code transforms or rewrites itself permanently. It is the uninterrupted search for possible solutions to the situations that the body accepts and traverses.

Concept: Javier Arozena and Gino Senesi

Performer: Javier Arozena

The performance includes complete nudity of the artist.

Javier Arozena.

Since 2022 he is curator of the Public Program of Living Arts "POR ASALTO" at TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, where he has curated the exhibition "This Could Be the Place, Performing the Museum" together with Natalia Álvarez Simó. "EPSEL" is also presented at Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Condeduque between September 2024 and February 2025.

In 2025 he begins the curatorship and coordination of Living Arts of the TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes team as part of the Program, with Creative Europe funds, P.I.T. (Perform – Inform – Transform) in the consortium formed with Triennale di Milano, Bozar Bruxxelles, CAC Vilnius, MUDAM Luxembourg and Fundação Serralves.

He has developed his artistic practice since 2001 as a performer, creator and teacher in national, European and North American companies. He currently is part of Dance On Ensemble (Berlin): Works In Silence and STEIN by Lucinda Childs, Fäden by Ivana Müller, Kiss the one we are co-production with HIATUS/Daniel Linehan (Brussels), Mellowing by Christos Papadopoulos or Musique by Mathilde Monnier. ​

Since 2019 he forms and co-directs together with architect Gino Senesi the creative tandem javier arozena – la compañía with a repertoire of choreographic works for scenic spaces and other exhibition spaces.

In 2024 he premieres the porvenir project at Sant Andreu Teatre (Barcelona) and presents the living installation Panoptes together with artist José Herrera at Galería Bibli (Tenerife).

​Best Performer Award at 25MASDANZA (2020), Barcelona Critics' Award 2024 for best male dance performer for VU.

Since 2015, MACA has proposed meetings in a conversation format, centered on art and architecture. Reflecting again

on the relationships between architecture and art, understanding the process of construction and reconstruction of architecture from a more artistic or philosophical point of view, leads us to delve deeper into this proposal. In the MACA Library, the last Thursdays

of each month, from September 2018 to May 2019. Eva Prats is an Architect from the ETSA of Barcelona and Doctor Architect from RMIT Melbourne. Ricardo Flores is an architect from FADU-UBA, Master's in Urban Planning and Doctor Architect from ETSAB-UPC. Eva and Ricardo founded Flores & Prats in Barcelona in 1998, a studio dedicated to the confrontation of theory and academic practice with design and constructive activity.

They have worked on rehabilitation projects of disused structures, in the design of urban public spaces with neighborhood participation, and in social housing and its capacity to create community. But the studio has also experimented with the use of films to document projects or edible architecture menus developed for exhibitions of their work in Barcelona, Copenhagen, or Venice.

The work of Flores & Prats has obtained, among other recognitions, the Grand Award in Architecture from the Royal Academy of Arts in London 2009, the Premi Ciutat de Barcelona 2016, the Premi Ciutat de Palma 2017, the AD Architects of the Year Award 2018, and the AR New into Old Award 2019. They have been nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Prize on various occasions and their work has been exhibited in the last four editions of the Venice Architecture Biennial. In addition to their professional practice, Eva and Ricardo are actively involved in the academic world.

They are Professors of Projects at the ETSA of Barcelona, Professors of Architecture and Urban Design at RMIT Melbourne, and between 2019 and 2021 visiting professors at ETH Zurich. In the 2022-2023 academic year they will begin as visiting professors at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio. In 2014, the Mexican publisher Arquine published the first monograph on their work, Pensado a mano. La Arquitectura de Flores & Prats, and in 2017 the new magazine Archives dedicated its first issue to the studio's work. In 2020, Arquine and the Barcelona City Council published the monographic book Sala Beckett. International Center for Dramaturgy. In 2021, the Archives Universum magazine dedicated its first issue to the studio's private world and working methods.

Since 2015, MACA has proposed meetings in a conversation format, around art and architecture. To reflect again

on the relationships between architecture and art, to understand the process of construction and reconstruction of architecture from a more artistic or philosophical point of view, leads us to delve deeper into this proposal. In the MACA Library, the last Thursdays

of each month, from September 2018 to May 2019. Ramon Bosch and Bet Capdeferro are architects graduated from the School of Architecture of Barcelona - UPC - BarcelonaTECH since 2000 and 1999 respectively. Bet Capdeferro is pursuing the Master's degree in Landscape Architecture from the Polytechnic Foundation of Catalonia. In 2003 they founded the bosch.capdeferro architecture studio in the city of Girona, from where they work on the transformation of spaces of diverse scale and nature, focusing attention on the relationship between man and the environment. Their professional activity in the studio has always been accompanied by teaching experience at the universities ETSAB-UPC BarcelonaTech, ETH-Zürich, EPS-University of Girona, Cornell University-New York and Washington University-Saint Louis, supporting through theory and research the development of the design and construction process. They conceive the project as a concave and inclusive experience, capable of harmoniously integrating through an open process all the diverse facts and agents that configure it. In 2012 they are selected to participate in the XIII Venice Architecture Biennale - "Common Ground" as members of the "Vogadors" exhibition. In 2015 they win the FAD Architecture Award. In 2016 they are awarded in the Heritage and Transformation category of the XIII Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennale - "Alternatives", as well as in the Works Panorama of the X Ibero-American Architecture and Urbanism Biennale. In 2011 their work was part of the "Unfinished" exhibition of the Spanish Pavilion, winner of the Golden Lion at the XV Venice Architecture Biennale - "Reporting From the Front". In 2018 they are awarded in the Works Panorama of the XIV Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennale – "More Living, More Humanizing". In 2021 they receive the award in the Works Panorama of the XV Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennale - "Empty Spain, Full Spain". In 2022 they receive the Architecture Award from the Higher Council of Colleges of Architects of Spain. That same year their work is nominated for the European Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award.

Since 2015, MACA has proposed meetings in a conversation format, around art and architecture. Reflecting again

on the relationships between architecture and art, understanding the process of construction and reconstruction of architecture from a more artistic or philosophical point of view, leads us to delve deeper into this proposal. In the MACA Library, the last Thursdays

of each month, from September 2018 to May 2019. He graduated from the School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM) in 1981 and received his doctorate from ETSAM in 2000, and began working at Rafael Moneo's studio until 1992. In 1990 he joined as an editor at Arquitectura magazine and founded his own studio with Luis Moreno Mansilla, Mansilla + Tuñón Architects.

He is a professor at the School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM) and has been a professor at the New School of Architecture of Puerto Rico, the International School of Architecture of Barcelona, the San Pablo CEU University Foundation, as well as a visiting professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, the School of Architecture of Navarra, and also at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University USA and Princeton University School of Architecture. Since 2007, he is a trustee of the ARQUIA Foundation, Gold Medal of the Superior Council of the Colleges of Architects of Spain CSAE 2015.

Among the projects developed with Luis Moreno Mansilla (1959-2012), the Museum of Zamora, the Documentary Center of the Community of Madrid, now the Joaquín Leguina Regional Library, the Museum of Fine Arts of Castellón, the MUSAC in León, the León City Auditorium, the Museum of Cantabria, the Hotel and Restaurant Relais & Châteaux Atrio and the Museum of Royal Collections (Madrid) stand out.[1]​[2]​

In 2014 he was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts by the Spanish government.

Since 2015, MACA has proposed meetings in a conversation format, centered on art and architecture. Reflecting again

on the relationships between architecture and art, understanding the process of construction and reconstruction of architecture from a more artistic or philosophical point of view, leads us to delve deeper into this proposal. In the MACA Library, the last Thursdays

of each month, from September 2018 to May 2019. Esther Pizarro was born in Madrid in 1967. She graduated in Fine Arts from the Sculpture Department of the Complutense University of Madrid in 1990, where she obtained her Doctorate in 1995.

Her training was completed thanks to various scholarships that allowed her to travel abroad, among which the following stand out: Artistic Creation Grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation of New York; Plastic Arts Production Aid from the Community of Madrid; Plastic Arts Grant from the Casa de Velázquez, Madrid; Generation 2000 Grant, Caja de Madrid; Plastic Arts Grant from the Academy of Spain in Rome; Plastic Arts Grant from the College of Spain in Paris; Predoctoral Grant for Research Personnel Training at the Complutense University of Madrid. Between 1996 and 1997, she resided in the United States with a Grant from the Fulbright Commission and the Ministry of Education and Culture.

She has received various awards and honorable mentions, among which the following stand out: Grants for Creation and National and International Mobility 2022/2023, Madrid City Council; Art Promotion Grants, Support for Creators, Artistic Creation and Production 2022, Ministry of Culture and Sports; Ramón Acín Research Contract 2021; Grants for Creation in Visual Arts from the Community of Madrid 2021; Grants for research, creation and artistic production in the field of Visual Arts 2020, Ministry of Culture and Sports; Buitblanc Award 2019-2020, Contemporary Culture Las Cigarreras, Alicante; VISIBLES Award 2018, Art and Women Competition Comarcal Center of Humanities Cardenal Gonzaga Sierra Norte, CCHSN, Community of Madrid; Antón Grant for Sculptural Creation and Research 2017; Project awarded in the XX Call for Visual Creation Aids Proposals 2016, Assistance and Cultural Fund of VEGAP; Acquisition Award XVII Competition of Plastic Arts Sala El Brocense, Provincial Council of Cáceres; Acquisition award IV International Biennial of Plastic Arts City of Alcorcón, category: urban sculpture; realization of an artistic intervention project titled "Postal Codes"; First Prize Plaza de las Libertad/es, international ideas competition for the planning and construction of a space for freedom in Seville, MGM Morales+Giles Architects, in collaboration with Esther Pizarro and Hackitectura.net; El Ojo Crítico Award from Spanish National Radio in the Plastic Arts category; Pámpana de Oro Award in the LXI National Exhibition of Plastic Arts of Valdepeñas in Ciudad Real; Finalist in the Mariano Benlliure Sculpture Award 2000 of the Villa de Madrid Awards and Second Prize XXII National Sculpture Competition of Caja Madrid.

She has exhibited individually at the Provincial Council Hall of Huesca; College of Architects of Madrid (COAM), Mercadal Hall; Euskalduna Urban Hall, Bilbao; Las Cigarreras Cultural Center, Alicante; Tabacalera, La Fragua, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Madrid; Tabacalera, La Fragua, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Madrid; Sculpture Center of Candás Antón Museum, Candás, Asturias; Metrópoli Foundation, Madrid; Royal House of the Mint Museum, Segovia; MataderoMadrid; Casa Asia, Barcelona; Royal Hospital, Granada; San Telmo Museum, San Sebastián; Tomás y Valiente Art Center, Hall A, (CEART), Fuenlabrada; Official College of Architects of the Canary Islands COAC, Las Palmas District; Barjola Museum, Gijón; Antonio Prates Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal; Circle of Fine Arts, Madrid; Raquel Ponce Gallery, Madrid; Ponce+Robles Gallery, Madrid; Manuel Ojeda Gallery, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Isabel Ignacio Gallery, Seville; Teresa Cuadrado Gallery, Valladolid; Liquid Space Gallery, Gijón; Carmen de los Mártires, Council of Granada; Saura Hall, Council of Huesca, Huesca; Gallery B, California State University, Long Beach, United States; Casa de Velázquez, Madrid and Municipal Arts Center, Alcorcón, Madrid.

Among her most recent group exhibitions is her participation in Spain Arts & Science LAB in Belgium. Embassy of Spain; Cervantes Institute Krakow, Poland; Laboral Center for Art and Industrial Creation, Gijón; I Biennial of the South of Panama; Miller Building, City Council of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Venice Architecture Biennial, Spain Pavilion, Venice, Italy; Spanish Cultural Center in Lima, Peru; Cervantes Institute and Academy of Spain in Rome, Italy; Oraziano Museum - Palazzo Orsini, Licenza, Rome, Italy; XVIII Cerveira Biennial, Portugal; University Museum of Alicante; Dasto Art Center, Oviedo; Caja de Madrid, Traveling throughout Spain; Academy of San Fernando, Madrid; Raquel Ponce Gallery, Madrid; Municipal Arts Center, Alcorcón, etc ...

In recent years she has worked on interventions in public spaces with temporary and permanent character: Call for Artistic Interventions in Public Spaces of Barbastro, Project "The Legacy of Culture", Huesca, Spain; Sculptural Park of the Dehesa Boyal, Las Navas del Marqués, Ávila; Pradolongo Park, Madrid; Plaza del Pueblo, Alcobendas, Madrid; Palace of Exhibitions and Congresses, Mérida; West Lake Park, Hangzhou, China; Casino de la Reina Park, Lavapiés, Madrid; San José de Ocoa, Dominican Republic; Arganda del Rey Metro Station, Madrid; Fráncos Rodríguez Metro Station, Madrid and Municipal Board of Latina, Madrid.

She has created specific installations for different spaces, among which the following stand out: "Space Debris :: Constellations of Waste", Euskalduna Urban Hall and Las Cigarreras Alicante; "#NiUnaMenos", Comarcal Center of Humanities Cardenal Gonzaga Sierra Norte, CCHSN, Madrid; "[MAFD] :: Mapping Active Fire Data", Tabacalera, La Fragua, Madrid, Sculpture Center of Candás Antón Museum, Asturias and Euskalduna Urban Hall; "Liquid Stained Glass" Can Prunera Modernist Museum, Sóller, Mallorca; "Liquid mapping :: connected to..", Euskalduna Urban Hall and Ponce + Robles Gallery, Madrid; "Digital Diamonds: Cloudscape" and "Blue Backbone: Datascape". Program: Cities Art, Ecobox, Metrópoli Foundation, Alcobendas, Madrid; "A Japanese Garden: Topographies of Emptiness", Project carried out within the framework of the Dual Year Spain-Japan 2013-2014, Touring: MataderoMadrid, Nave 16, Programming Line: Large Scale. Madrid; Casa Asia, La Purísima Pavilion, Modernist Complex of the Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona; San Telmo Museum, San Sebastián; Royal House of the Mint Museum, Segovia and "Mobility Maps. Patronizing Madrid", Tomás y Valiente Art Center (CEART), Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain.

Her collaboration in Universal Exhibitions with large installations stands out: "Skin of Light", Bilbao Guggenheim ++ Pavilion, Shanghai World Expo Exhibition 2010, China and "Urban Fossils", Exhibition Design: GPD (General de Producciones y Diseño), Acciona Pavilion, Expo Zaragoza 2008, Spain.

Her work is represented in various collections such as the Academy of Spain, Rome; City Council of Valdepeñas, Ciudad Real; Casa de Velázquez, Madrid; Alberto Jiménez-Arellano Alonso Foundation, Valladolid; Astroc Foundation, Valencia; Antonio Prates Foundation, Portugal; Valencian Institute of Modern Art, IVAM, Valencia; Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Madrid; Ministry of Environment, Madrid and Caja de Madrid Collection, Madrid.

In the academic field, she directed the Department of Artistic Creation and Theory of the Arts at the School of Art and Architecture of the European University of Madrid during the academic years 2002-2005. She currently combines her teaching activity as a professor of sculpture with academic research, focused fundamentally on the study of the interrelationships between art, architecture, landscape, urban space, data and complexity. During the years 2020-24, she belongs to the School of Doctoral Studies and Research (EDI) of the European University of Madrid, as a Senior Researcher. Currently, and since 2025, she is linked to the Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies of the Creative Campus of the European University of Madrid, where she directs the Research Group: Creative Ecosystems and BioDesign Lab (EcoBD Lab). She has four recognized Research Periods (Sexenios) from the National Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation (ANECA).

Since 2015, MACA has proposed meetings in a conversation format, centered on art and architecture. Reflecting again

on the relationships between architecture and art, understanding the process of construction and reconstruction of architecture from a more artistic or philosophical point of view, leads us to delve deeper into this proposal. In the MACA Library, the last Thursdays

of each month, from September 2018 to May 2019.

José María Sánchez García (1975) graduated from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM) in 2002, and in 2016 obtained the title of Doctor Architect from ETSAM with the doctoral thesis 'The Bath Case'. Currently, he is Associate Professor of Architectural Projects at the School of Architecture of Madrid and has been Visiting Professor at the Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio, at ETH University of Zurich and at IUAV in Venice. In 2017 he was appointed Honorary Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) International Fellowship. He also received an honorable mention in the Spanish Architecture Award 2017, among others.

The José María Sánchez García studio was founded in 2006 and currently has offices in Madrid and Switzerland, developing public projects won through architectural competitions. The studio has been awarded with prizes of national and international scope, such as the First Prize BSI Swiss Architectural Award, Switzerland; First Prize AR+D Architecture Review Awards, London; Architectural Record's Design Vanguard Award, New York; First Prize Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism; First Prize Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism and the First Prize Enor Architecture Award.

The projects have been published by numerous indexed national and international magazines, such as El Croquis, Arquitectura Viva, Casabella, Architectural Review, a+u, Detail, Oris, Azure, On Diseño, Architekture Aktueal, Rita, 2G and Summa.

Since 2015, MACA has proposed meetings in a conversation format, centered on art and architecture. Reflecting again on the relationships between architecture and art, understanding the process of construction and reconstruction of architecture from a more artistic or philosophical perspective, leads us to delve deeper into this proposal. In the MACA Library, the last Thursdays of each month, from September 2018 to May 2019.