The MACA celebrated for the first time on April 20, 2012, International Book Day (April 23) with a BookCrossing.

BookCrossing is the practice of leaving books in public places so that another person can pick them up, read them, and do the same with them. Thus, a book that we have left in Alicante can end up in any other part of Spain or abroad.

The museum released a total of 10 books. These are registered on the official bookcrossing page (www.bookcrossing.com) which each person who finds a book and picks it up will have to access, so that at all times each of the released books is located.

It is a fun and original way to promote reading among all types of audiences.

Happy Book Day!

Graciela Iturbide is an icon of Mexican culture. A photographer who builds images full of realism, far removed from magic or surrealism, two terms with which her photos have sometimes been defined, although she distances herself from both concepts. Her images, beyond documenting Mexican life, provide a background composed of different stories, a mixture of the indigenous and the postcolonial that she herself defines as the "Mexican tempo".

In this workshop we will explore the creation of images with the bird as the protagonist, using the photo-collage technique.

Coordination: Va de cuentos and María Maraña

Photobook club is an activity where different authors present their proposals and photographic works edited in author's photolithographs.

On this occasion Javier Serrano – Paulina De La Casa – jorge Lidiano and Gabriel Diaz will present their works on Thursday, March 24 at 18:00hrs, in the Auditorium of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante.

From 2016 to 2020, the MACA hosted monthly storytelling sessions aimed at a children's audience. In these sessions, always using our collections as a starting point, these cycles were carried out with the help of Alberto Celdrán and Va de cuentos, which made children discover the characters that inhabit the museum: women, characters, wolves, monsters, horses, fantastic beings,...; fostering their creativity and imagination.

Beloved Lovers is the first work that Raquel López offers us with her own texts. Stories that were created for this production and that were later published in a book with the same name.

It is a simple, intimate show, sometimes irreverent, other times tender, but above all very humorous. It does not aim to make an apology for adultery nor to find out if the person to your right is a lover or if the one on the other side has the status of a mistress. You also don't have to confess whether it's a one-night affair or if it celebrates anniversaries.

"The Feather Collector" is a procedural work by Ana Matey (Madrid, 1978) composed of drawings, videos, photographs, installations, and individual, collective, and participatory actions—the performances that center this proposal—which the artist generates in a specific manner according to the space in which it is presented and according to the stage in which the creative process itself finds itself.

Ana Matey defines "The Feather Collector," her alter ego, as an individual "tired of the frenetic pace of moving through and doing in daily life, of the continuous doing, producing, achieving, competing, possessing, being more, having more…"; a figure that rebels against the acceleration of Western society from the intimate search for emptiness and silence.

It all began seven years ago in Normandy, a place that Ana Matey chose at a specific moment in her life to distance herself from the accelerated pace of the city. In that new environment, away from the noise of the world, she began a daily ritual in the form of long walks in which she dedicated herself to collecting feathers. That repeated act of walking and gathering feathers, conceived as a conscious and full way of living/feeling the body and of observing/feeling what surrounds us, gave rise to a doubt: when is a feather more free?, when it is united with the rest of the feathers, which like it have their function as part of another body? or when it detaches and remains alone without clear function at the mercy of wind, water, or another body giving it movement?

This existential question activated a branching artistic process riddled with great enigmas about our way of living, individually and collectively. For Ana Matey, feathers are "bodies" that lie upon the earth, small bodies that in the collector's actions are presented trapped, liberated, feathers that take flight again, feathers that are lost along the way, feathers that become part of another body again…

Through all the artistic media she uses (drawing, photography, installation, actions…), Ana Matey invokes strong poetic images. The ever-present feathers are surrounded by a symbolic universe populated by ice, water, flour, eggs, threads, breath, mold…elements, all of them, that are in the process of transformation and that carry within themselves the fundamental idea of constant rebirth.

From Friday, March 23 to Sunday, March 25, the museum gave away books to anyone who wanted them. With this initiative, visitors could take a maximum of two books from the Museum's collection.

Exhibition catalogs, photography books, sculpture, art history, or Valencian painting completed the offered collection. Despite being the first time this activity was held, it was a great success and the books sold out during the weekend.

Album inspired by American architect Gordon Matta-Clark and his work Conical Intersect (Paris, 1975).

This is a formidable book that shows us the coexistence between the city and nature. How we humans come to demand of ourselves to adapt to the unexpected, how we discover that from chaos, our creativity is born and how we can understand, respect and love nature, despite it presenting itself to us in an unexpected way.

We will create a building cut, on a model of a house or building.

Gordon Matta-Clark's building cuts represent a critical perspective, a reflection on speculation, private property and privacy.

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

Georgia O'Keeffe was a fascinating, original, and determined artist. She dedicated her life to art and was known as the mother of American modernism. Perhaps her most famous paintings are those that represent flowers on a large scale. Flowers seen through a "magnifying glass" that enlarges their shapes and colors until bringing them closer to abstract art. Observe, enlarge, abstract the flowers.

In this workshop of Me, artist we experimented with paintings, watercolors, flowers and abstraction to approach the art of Georgia O'Keeffe.

Lotte Reiniger was a German filmmaker and pioneer in animation, especially for her animated films with cardboard silhouettes, with which she delighted audiences of all ages. She directed the first film that used the multiplane camera.

In this "I, Artist" workshop we will learn about her art and practice some basic elements of stop-motion animation and paper cutouts.