Seminar “Thinking About Painting”

• Date: January 31st
• Time: 11 am – 6 pm Check programme
• Venue: Aljub and exhibition halls
• Free activity

As a parallel activity to the exhibition project “Nachleben. Painting as Conceptual Art” and within the events commemorating the anniversary of Es Baluard Museum, we propose a seminar entitled “Thinking About Painting” which includes lectures, visits to the exhibitions and round tables in a programme that will extend throughout the day.

Contemporary painting is a kind of resistance and, above all, a flexible positioning that has forced artists to continually rethink their place. Hence its multifaceted character, capable of holding multiple faces, but also the need to ask ourselves the same questions over and over again: Why do we continue to talk about painting? What do we call painting today?

A series of expert voices, artists, curators and commissioners will reflect on these and other questions in “Nachleben”, a project that brings together three exhibitions throughout the year, with the intention of contributing to the understanding of the history of recent art, in this case, by investigating the intrinsic nature of painting based on some of its vicissitudes or drifts. This trilogy will begin on January 30, the date of the twenty-first anniversary of the Museum, with the opening of the first exhibition of “Nachleben. Painting as Conceptual Art”.

PROGRAM

• 11 am Miquel Barceló and the Old Masters. Lecture by Enrique Juncosa, curator and writer (Aljub)
• 12 pm Painting in the Spanish context. Round table discussion with Nico Munuera, Laura González Cabrera and Tomás Pizá, artists. Moderated by curator Alicia Ventura (Aljub)
• 1 pm Guided tour to “José Fiol. The Green Fog” exhibition by artist and Raquel Victoria, curator (Exhibition Hall D) Limited capacity 

Break

• 4 pm Guided tour to “Jessica Stockholder. Cardinals Directions” exhibition by the artist* (Exhibition Hall C) Limited capacity
• 4.30 pm Lecture Painting as a problem by curator Delfim Sardo*, responsible for the Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon (Aljub)
• 5.15 pm Dialogue between artists Michael Craig-Martin and Fiona Rae. Moderated by curator Carolina Grau* (Aljub)

*In English with simultaneous translation into Spanish