Within the Palabras Mayores program, the MACA hosts a new session of "Encounters with Local Creators," a proposal that seeks to open the museum's doors to the voices that make up the artistic and cultural fabric of our environment.

On this occasion, we welcome Isabel Guiu, poet and curator, who will share with the group her life and creative experience alongside Alicante-based plastic artist Pepo Cantos, of whom she was a companion and principal disseminator of his legacy.

Cantos was a multifaceted, vitalist artist and deeply Mediterranean, with an international trajectory that included Paris, New York, Holland and Latin America. Portraitist, landscape painter, graphic humorist and cultural agitator, he founded workshops, directed galleries, exhibited in public and private institutions, and always maintained a constant search around figurative art and personal expression.

On this occasion we will focus on Gustavo Torner, whose artistic production is very broad and diverse, encompassing painting and sculpture, but also graphic work, set design, theater and opera costumes, tapestries, stained glass, public sculpture, interior design and exhibitions.

We propose a new way of relating to the museum with the aim of consolidating and promoting mutual enrichment and an exchange of experiences.

Through these guided visits and actions we want to reflect on concepts and ideas that will emerge throughout the visit, relating the works from the MACA collections to their context, in a transversal way, analyzing current reality and how artists represent their experiences by creating a collective memory through the great diversity of contemporary languages that have emerged in the 20th and 21st centuries.

For inquisitive adults. Led by Explicarte. With the support of the Consorci de Museus de la Generalitat

On this occasion we will focus on Víctor Vasarely. An artist considered the father of Op Art.

We propose a new way of relating to the museum with the aim of consolidating and promoting mutual enrichment and an exchange of experiences.

Through these guided visits and activities, we want to reflect on concepts and ideas that will emerge throughout the visit, relating the works from the MACA collections to their context, in a transversal way, analyzing current reality and how artists represent their experiences by creating a collective memory through the great diversity of contemporary languages that have emerged in the 20th and 21st centuries.

For inquisitive adults. Led by Explicarte. With the support of the Consorci de Museus de la Generalitat.

The Fruto project aims to showcase different Alicante creators, deepen and expand knowledge about contemporary art, and learn to view the collections housed in the MACA from another perspective.

On this occasion we will focus on Alexander Calder. American engineer and sculptor, creator of the innovative mobiles or chupin (hanging mobile toys), which would eventually become the seed of kinetic sculpture.

We propose a new way of relating to the museum with the aim of consolidating and promoting mutual enrichment and an exchange of experiences.

With these guided visits and actions we want to reflect on concepts and ideas that will emerge throughout the visit, relating the works from the MACA collections to their context, in a transversal way, making an analysis of current reality and how artists represent their experiences creating a collective memory through the great diversity of contemporary languages that have emerged in the 20th and 21st centuries.

For restless adults. In charge of Explicarte. With the support of the Consorci de Museus de la Generalitat.

"The Contemporary Art Museum as a Space for Social Transformation" Led by Manuel Segade, director of the National Museum Reina Sofía Art Center (MNCARS). Other Museums, Other Perspectives is a lecture series in which managers and directors of other museums are invited to speak about their experiences, histories, and knowledge in the management and direction of the museums in which they have worked. Coordinated by: Isabel Tejeda

"Art Mail" continues to be available to all visitors who wish to participate. We remind you that these are postcards that reproduce works by Juana Francés to send around the world from the museum, where we have installed a collection mailbox, with the aim of extending knowledge of the artist's works and allowing her works to travel and be disseminated.

Request the postcard at the counter, write a message on it to whoever you wish, and drop it in the mailbox. Make Juana's work travel around the world!

First MAV Debate of this third edition.

Following the model of the latest editions and betting on territorial balance, the first day will be held at the MACA. On this occasion, Juncal Caballero Guiral will present us with "Surrealist Women and Photography". At the event, we will have the presence of the president of MAV, Rosalía Torrent.

Palabras mayores arrives at MACA to go beyond the apparent. Because museums are places where we discover and learn but also spaces conceived for citizens to experience and reinvent.

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 MACA, titled Visibility: an open window to the local creator, aims to make known different Alicantine creators, deepen and expand knowledge about contemporary art and learn to look at the collections housed in MACA from another perspective. On this occasion, we will speak with José María Morán Berruti, artist and ceramicist.

MOOD SEMPERE is a project of cultural and artistic mediation proposed by Ester García Guixot and Juan Diego Cerdá Martínez, educators at MACA, on the occasion of the Centenary of the birth of Eusebio Sempere and which is aimed at students of EASDA, School of Art and Higher Design of Alicante.

The result of this incredible project is the unique exhibition "Mood: Sempere". In it, students of Ceramics and Interior Design from EASDA pay an emotional tribute to Eusebio Sempere. They have reimagined his artistic vision through a creative exploration of his life and work, capturing the essence of Sempere, and reinterpreting his legacy through a contemporary perspective.

To achieve this, students have used a wide variety of materials and techniques, demonstrating how Sempere's influence remains profound and enduring in the world of art and design. It is a testament to how art can transcend time and continue to inspire new generations.

We invite you to immerse yourself in this exhibition and discover how students have reinterpreted the work of Eusebio Sempere, and how his memory remains alive and vibrant in today's world.

Works

Milagros Alfaro and Eva Mulet

Big-Bang

This work uses lines and the number 3 as a symbol of balance. It is composed of 81 pieces of black CH stoneware clay on a transparent methacrylate base, forming a 6-pointed star and a spiral of 17 heights. Its meaning reflects the transition from order to chaos and from implosion to expansion, evoking the concept of the Big Bang and the organization of matter in time and space.

This work, intertwining 81 pieces of black CH stoneware clay on methacrylate, creates a cosmic dance of lines and the number 3. In a 6-pointed star and spiral of 17 heights, it reflects the transition from order to chaos, from implosion to expansion, evoking the Big Bang and harmony in matter throughout time and space.

Various Authors

Collective Altarpiece

The piece is a collective creation made by both students and teachers of EASDA participating in Mood: Sempere during one of the sessions, in which the technique of screen printing was worked on, introduced in Spain by Abel Martín and Eusebio Sempere. It is a wooden panel 110x166 with screen printing inks and trappings.

Collaboration between EASDA students and teachers. This wooden panel, 110x166, with screen printing inks and trappings, pays tribute to Spanish screen printing by Abel Martín and Eusebio Sempere, merging creativity in a unique expression of innovation and legacy.

Elena Pérez Méndez

Soul in Change

This optical-kinetic art installation is made of ceramic with pieces joined by an iron wire and separated by metal brakes. Designed to rotate, the orange rods rotate together while the green ones rotate freely. The work seeks to convey that, despite the uncontrollable turns of life, by keeping ourselves connected to our center and essence we can reorganize ourselves internally and recover our identity.

Kinetic art in ceramic: rotating rods express balance amid the chaotic turns of life. Orange and green dance, conveying the idea of reconnecting with our essence to recover identity in the midst of challenges.

Luís Sanus

Ceramic Tribute

The installation is a ceramic tribute to the master of Onil. It is composed of 23 ceramic pieces that form the letter "S", so often used by the artist. On the ceramic surface are arranged the geometric lines of "Semperian" inspiration that make up the whole, which rests on mirror-paper to give it kinetic quality and depth.

Ceramic tribute to Sempere: 23 pieces form the emblematic "S". "Semperian" geometric lines on mirror-paper add dynamism and depth in a vibrant visual tribute.

Agustina Álvarez, Alicia Miota, Elena Pérez and Ramón Cortés

Parar taula

The everyday object elevated to the rank of conceptual work: a series of plates decorated in the screen printing workshop, applied on ceramic and made with decorative motifs inspired by geometric designs. These designs intertwine with each other, creating an evolutionary sequence.

Agustina del Valle Álvarez and Alicia Miota Shepherd

Transcend

The piece seeks to represent the process of reconnection with oneself that occurs after a fall. Through geometric forms represented in an organic manner and a gradient from black and white to color, the work consists of three parts: an upper part with eleven pieces of size 1 hanging from a support anchored to the wall, an intermediate section with nine pieces of size 2 adhered to the wall, and a final piece on the floor.

Reborn after the fall: geometric forms evolve from black and white to color in three sections. A visual account of reconnection with oneself, captured in a work that fuses the organic and the geometric.

Eva Mulet Plaza

Evolution

This work, inspired by the artistic and personal evolution and revolution of Eusebio Sempere, is composed of 108 pieces of Stoneware clay with paper fiber, which reflect his personal growth. The upper part glazed in yellow alludes to the fruits of effort and perseverance, while the lower part smoked represents how he turned his visual difficulty into a tool to overcome the impossible.

108 pieces of Stoneware clay honor the evolution of Eusebio Sempere. Yellow is fruitful effort; smoked, the overcoming of visual difficulty. An ode to personal growth.

Milagros Alfaro Martínez

The project consists of two pieces, "Moonlight" and "Being Between Space and Time", inspired by geometric abstraction. Both pieces use lines, geometric forms and colors to represent the abstraction of time, matter and space.

Moonlight

"Moonlight" represents space as a horizon through parallel black lines in CH ceramic stoneware on a transparent polycarbonate background, framing the moon, which is represented by a circle of stoneware with fine parallel and broken lines in different shades of blue, creating a dynamic and luminous figure. From the moon emerge curved figures and straight lines in CH stoneware painted in different shades of blue, symbolizing the trail of light reflected in the sea.

"Moonlight": lines of stoneware on polycarbonate frame a vibrant moon, displaying blue tones that simulate dancing light on the sea. A visual symphony of space and horizon.

Being Between Space and Time

"Being Between Space and Time" uses space and time as central elements, represented by inclined parallel lines that converge in the center forming a diamond, symbolizing the sky. These lines, of black CH stoneware, are located on a transparent polycarbonate background. In the center, time is represented by a circle of black CH stoneware painted with 24 circles, 12 of them in different colors, which symbolize the different experiences and emotions we experience throughout life. An angle within the circle changes color, reminding us that these experiences are in constant change. The work concludes with a representation of the earth through pieces of black CH stoneware parallel and inclined upward.

"Being Between Space and Time" fuses lines of black stoneware on polycarbonate, creating a celestial diamond. In the center, time unfolds in a circle painted with 24 shades, reflecting changing experiences. The earth emerges with pieces of black stoneware, forming a work that explores the connection between being, space and time.

Juan Ramón Cortés and Paco Máñez

Manises Urban Geometry

In this piece, the traditional technique of tile painting has been used but with an airbrush and the application of paper reserves and solid elements that allow the creation of light zones. The line and the alternation of empty spaces construct a grid, a landscape.

Luisa Blasco López

Two

"Two" is a work inspired by the synergy between the life and work of Sempere and Abel Martín. Formed by 8 plates of white and black clay in which you can see engraved parts of the face of both Abel and Eusebio, forming a unity, a whole completed by the TWO. This reclaims the collective work between both and the richness they brought to each other in their works.

"Two" fuses the lives of Sempere and Abel in 8 clay plates. Their engraved faces symbolize collaboration and mutual richness, highlighting the value of collective work and complementarity in their creations.

EPHEMERAL ARCHITECTURE

Alejandro Alfaro Enguídanos

Kinetic Waves

"Kinetic Waves" is an ephemeral pavilion in which a symbiosis between art and design is created. In this space, the lyrical and sinuous geometry along with the light of the kinetic art of Eusebi Sempere can be seen reflected through curved and dynamic forms in which the lights create a "moiré" effect in a unique and immersive space.

Paula Cánovas Martinez and Lucía Real Joven

The Kinetics of Sempere

In this piece we find an evocation of Sempere's work through water, sun and movement. This movement is perceived through the structure of the pavilion, thanks to the light that enters through the textured glass slabs that generates a shadow that varies according to the movement of the sun, providing luminosity to the space and an aquatic sensation. The water, always in motion, accompanies the flow of radiations and visitors, providing brightness, freshness and sound in this experiential space.

Evoking Sempere, this work plays with light and aquatic shadows. Solar movement transforms the space, while water brings freshness and sounds. A multisensory experience.

Miriam F.

Flow

The work is created through straight profiles at different heights that produce a curved and dynamic movement. In different shades of bright blue, they provide light and recall the materials that Sempere used in his sculptures, such as chrome steel. There is a tension between a basic order and mobility, chance. As the piece rotates on its axis, an entire game of combinations is created, multiplied by the play of light on the columns and the shadows that are projected.

This work, with straight profiles in bright blue tones, recalls the chrome steel used by Sempere. The tension between order and mobility is revealed as it rotates, generating dynamic combinations. Light plays with the columns, creating ever-changing shadows.

Diana and Mathilda

The Dream

The space questions sensory perception by creating hypnotic and dreamlike effects. The architecture is divided into two layers, a subtle outer skin and a solid and massive architecture. The outer layer represents consciousness while the inner represents a psychedelic world in which the visitor is surprised by the distorting effects of each space they enter.

This dual space challenges perception: a subtle outer layer symbolizes consciousness, while the inner reveals a psychedelic world with distorting effects. The experience is hypnotic and dreamlike, guiding the visitor through surprising paths.

Andrea Alarcón and Lucía Fernández.

Meraki

Meraki, in Turkish, means doing something with soul, with love and creativity, leaving a piece of yourself in the work. This is represented in a space that generates a kinetic experience in the visitor through dynamic forms that reproduce textured and distorting shadows and the play of transparencies and translucency. The passerby is the protagonist of that movement, both in the external vision of the space and in their experience as they traverse it, at which point they will discover that the paths are not as clear and certain as they might imagine.

"Meraki", in Turkish, expresses creating with soul and love. This space offers a kinetic experience with dynamic forms, textured shadows and distortions. The visitor becomes the protagonist, discovering that the internal paths are as unexpected as they are suggestive. A work that invites you to explore with your heart.