Juana Francés: context, experience and role. Lecture by María Rosón, Professor of Contemporary Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid.

After earning her doctorate from the Autonomous University of Madrid, she has worked as a researcher in the Collections Department of the Reina Sofía Museum and in the Department of Theory of Languages and Communication Sciences, University of Valencia. She has conducted research stays at Southampton University; New York University; University of Oxford and University of Leeds. In the field of museums, she stands out for curating the exhibition José Ortiz Echagüe: representing women, types and stereotypes (2010, CAM, Red Itiner) and co-curating the exhibition Women under suspicion: memory and sexuality (2013, UNED). Her research focuses on visual and material culture, mainly from twentieth-century Spain, at the intersection with feminist/gender studies. In addition to articles and book chapters, she has published, with Cátedra publishing house, Gender, memory and visual culture in early Francoism (everyday materials, beyond art). As co-editor, her work stands out in the following monographs: Poetry, cinema and humor. Tales of exception in the years of autarky (Reina Sofía Museum, 2017) and Queer barbarisms and other proparoxytone words (Bellaterra, 2017).

Her research connects the visual and material culture of twentieth-century Spain with perspectives of intersectional feminisms, dissident memories and archives.

With the support of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Universities and Employment of the Generalitat Valenciana.

Screening of the audiovisual essay "Juana Francés and the City" directed by Sol Spinelli about the relationship of COLEC-002 with technique, alienation, and the city.

Through the Tangent call of the Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community.

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.

With the support of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Universities and Employment of the Valencian Regional Government.

Workshop visit with vermouth around the work of female artists from the collections. Guided tour by Explicarte

Traditionally, women have been considered second-class citizens in the world of culture. This position was based on a statistic supported by a very limited number of women who had stood out in the field of literature, thought, and the plastic arts. This idea crumbles in the face of a simple consideration, and that is the reduced opportunities they had to develop their personal talents.

On this occasion, and on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition, we will focus on the figure of Juana Francés. She is the most prominent of a group of women artists who began to exhibit in the 1950s of the last century and whose professional determination defied the society of her time. Facing a hostile, normative and rigid environment created by the political and social ideology of Francoism, she managed to remain attentive to plastic concerns and be part of a generation of artists who revolutionized the art of their time, driven by a coercive political, social and cultural situation.

Collaborates: Consorci de Museus de Generalitat Valenciana.

On the occasion of the closing of the exhibition "Kara Walker. Burning Village", we have scheduled a series of activities around her work.

One of them is our monthly session of "Great Artists Straight Up" which, as it could not be otherwise, this Saturday will be dedicated to her figure.

On this occasion, we will focus on the figure of Tarsila do Amaral. A central figure of Brazilian modernism, she is the creator of an original and evocative work, based both on indigenous and popular imagery and on the modernizing dynamics of a country undergoing full transformation.

Her work is found in museums around the world, in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the National Palace of Haiti, and the National Museum of African American Artists.

In collaboration with: Consorci de Museus de Generalitat Valenciana.

On this occasion we will talk about Sophie Tauber-Arp. She was a Swiss interior designer, painter, sculptor, teacher and dancer. She is considered one of the most important Dada artists of her generation.​

In charge of the Explicarte Association. For general audiences.

On this occasion, we will focus on the figure of Lois Mailou Jones. An American painter and educator whose works reflect a mastery of very varied styles, from traditional landscape to abstraction with African themes.

Her work is found in museums around the world, in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the National Palace of Haiti, and the National Museum of African American Artists.

In collaboration with: Consorci de Museus de Generalitat Valenciana.

On this occasion, we will focus on the figure of Kara Walker. Her work addresses themes of violence, identity, race, and sexuality in the context of the still-present psychological wound caused by the tragic legacy of slavery, presenting a critical vision of the historical past and examining racial and gender stereotypes in our current society.

Her work is found in numerous museums and public collections, such as: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt; Museo Nazionale delle Art del XXI Secolo, MAXXI, Rome; The Menil Collection, Houston; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; British Museum, London; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Kunstmuseum Basel; Magasin III, Stockholm; Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Netherlands; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

In collaboration with: Consorci de Museus de Generalitat Valenciana.