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.

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.

The group will hold a special session under the name "Words Without Barriers".

The Palabras Mayores group, a mediation project between the museum and people over 60 years old, presents this inclusive and creative proposal that combines the poetic, visual, and plastic arts. The session will begin with an open discussion table on museum accessibility for all kinds of groups, opening a dialogue that invites rethinking cultural spaces as truly inclusive environments. Subsequently, a creative workshop will be developed in which, inspired by the MACA collections, participants will write texts, take photographs, make videos or create plastic artworks that represent their visions and experiences about museums and accessibility.

Coordination and mediation: Juan Diego Cerdá.

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

This is a mediation project aimed at people over 60 years old who want, first of all, to learn about and reflect on contemporary art, the function of museums, and the vision of both established and emerging creators. On the other hand, the participating individuals will establish synergies with the collections existing in the museum, developing their own narrative based on what they find in the galleries through guided visits, open debates, artistic creation activities, and social and cultural empowerment dynamics.

The main objective is to transform the museum into a laboratory for cultural and artistic experimentation in which participants will contribute their vision and experience to the contents present in the museum, while carrying out an activity that provides them with new knowledge. It is an encounter in which the dialogue between the visitor and the museum takes place through contemporary art and the MACA collections, with the mediation of an educator who will act as a link between both.

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

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

This is a mediation project aimed at people over 60 years old who want, first of all, to learn about and reflect on contemporary art, the function of museums, and the vision of both established and emerging creators. On the other hand, the participating individuals will establish synergies with the collections existing in the museum, developing their own narrative based on what they find in the galleries through guided visits, open debates, artistic creation activities, and social and cultural empowerment dynamics.

The main objective is to transform the museum into a laboratory for cultural and artistic experimentation in which participants will contribute their vision and experience to the contents present in the museum, while carrying out an activity that provides them with new knowledge. It is an encounter in which the dialogue between the visitor and the museum takes place through contemporary art and the MACA collections, with the mediation of an educator who will act as a link between both.

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

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The Palabras Mayores group is calling for the last "Meeting with Local Female Creators" until September.

And, on this occasion, the participating creator will be Asun Noales, who has been invited to tell us about her artistic trajectory, share her concerns and reflections, and tell us about her creative process, experiences and life as a creator.

We remind you that "Meeting with Local Female Creators" is a series of talks, more intimate and relaxed than academic and solemn, in which the invited artist will participate in a colloquium, thus generating a space for meeting, approach and dialogue between artists and attendees.

MACA is carrying out Palabras Mayores. A mediation project aimed at older adults, which was born in 2021 from the hand of the Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community, and which since 2022 has had the mediation of Juan Diego Cerdá who accompanies the Group in these meetings.

The Group meets two Wednesdays a month in the MACA library to create a space for exchange and learning, where the knowledge of the Group intersects with the contents of the Museum's Collections.

As a result of these sessions, the Group proposes a series of meetings at MACA, titled Encounters with Local Creators, which aim to showcase different Alicante creators, deepen and expand knowledge about contemporary art and learn to view the collections housed in MACA from another perspective.

Encounters with Local Creators is materialized through a series of sessions in which an artist is invited to present their artistic trajectory, sharing their artistic concerns and reflections, the development of their creative process, their techniques, etc.

These talks will last 45 minutes in which the invited artist will give a presentation of about 15 minutes, answering questions posed by the Group: How do you do it? Why do you do it?, and a subsequent discussion, of about 30 minutes, with the attendees.

See you at the museum!

Palabras Mayores arrives at MACA to go beyond the apparent. Because museums are places to discover and learn, but also spaces designed for citizens to experience and reinvent.

This is a mediation project aimed at people over 60 years old who want, first of all, to learn about and reflect on contemporary art, the function of museums, and the vision of both established and emerging creators. On the other hand, the participating individuals will establish synergies with the collections existing in the museum, developing their own narrative based on what they find in the galleries through guided visits, open debates, artistic creation activities, and social and cultural empowerment dynamics.

The main objective is to transform the museum into a laboratory for cultural and artistic experimentation in which participants will contribute their vision and experience to the contents present in the museum, while carrying out an activity that provides them with new knowledge.

This is an encounter in which the dialogue between the visitor and the museum takes place through contemporary art and the MACA collections, with the mediation of an educator who will act as a link between both.

Technical Information

Spaces: 15 people maximum (closed group)
Mediation: Juan Diego Cerdá, historian and social facilitator.

José Luis Vidal Carreras, writer.

The MACA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante is carrying out La Merienda. A mediation project aimed at elderly people, which was born at the MACA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante in 2021, in collaboration with 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 publicize different Alicante creators, deepen and expand knowledge about contemporary art and learn to view 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.

La merienda is an original project by Alba Cacheda.

Ana Ferrándiz Colmeiro, member of the Alicante Photography Club.

The MACA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante is carrying out La Merienda. A mediation project aimed at elderly people, which was born at the MACA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante in 2021, in collaboration with 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.

La Merienda is an original project by Alba Cacheda.